The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-08-25


a tainted ten certainly does get
action on Broadway. I was aiimony
once. and got folded In littic dog.
ain purse among a lot OF dimes.
They were Dragging about the busy
times there were In Ossining when
ever three girls got hold OF one OF
them during the Ice cream season.
But It's slow Moving Vehicles Keep
= ne Right for the little BOX tips
when you think OF the way We bison
p1Asters refuse to stick TO anything
during the rush lobster hour.
The first I ever heard Of tainted
money was one night when a good
thing with a Van 10 his name threw
me over with some other bills To buy
3 stack OF blues
About midnight . big. easy-golng
man with fat face like a monks
ana the eye Of . tanitor with his
wages raised took me and a lot Of
ether notes and rolled US into what
y termed "wad" among the money
eainters-
'sTicIet me for five hundred Eaid
Ne 10 the banker. -and look out for
everything. Chariia I'm going out
for = stroll in the glen before the
moonlight fades from the brow Of
the cliff. II anybody finds the roof
in their way there's SEQ. 900 wrapped
IN q comic supplement In the upper
1eff-hand corner OF tho safe. BE
bold: everywhere be bold, but be not
BOWED over. Night"
I found myself between two so
.gold certificates One OF EN- says
% me:
wen. old shorthorn. you're In luck
tonight You'll see something Of life.
Old Jacks going TO make the Ten
derIoin look like q hamburg steak :
Explain says l. I'm used 70
.1pints. but I don't care for filet mig.
nom with the kind Of sauce you
serve
~'xcuse me- said the twenty. -old
Jack Is the proprietor Of this gam.
bling house. He's going on a whiz
tonight because he offered $4,000
% q church and II refused to accept
u because they said the money was
tAinted."
What n church, I asked.
sOh. forgot" says the twenty.
That was talking to a tenner. OF
course you don't know. You're too
much to put into the contribution
basket. and not enough to buy any.
thing at bazaar. A church ia
large building In which penwipers
and tides are sold al $50 each"
/ don't care much about Ginning
with gold certificates. There's a
streak Of yellow In EN-. All is not
gold that's cutters.
Old Jack certainly was a giId-edged
sport When 1t came his time 10
loosen UP he never referred the
waiter TO an actuary.
BY and by II got around that he
was shifting the rock in the wilder.
ness. and all along Broadway things
with cold noses and hot outlets fell
in on our trail. The third Jungle
Book was there waiting for some
body to put covers on IT, Old Jacks
money may have had a faint on Il
but all the same he had orders for
his Camembert piiing up on him
every minute First his friends raj
lied round him; and then the fellows
that his friends knew by sight; anc
then few Of his enemies buried the
Ratchet: and finally he was buying
souvenirs for so many Neapolitar
!. fisher maidens and butterfly octettes
rthat the head walters were phoninf
!. bIl over town for Julian Mitchell tt
please come around and get then
into some kind OF order.
At last we floated into an uptown
cafe that I knew by heart. Wher
the hodcsrriers' union In Jackets and
aprons saw US coming the chief goa
kicker called out: "Six--eleven---
forty-two - nlneteen--twcive" to his
men. and they put on nose guards
I'll II was clear whether we meant
Port Arthur or Portsmouth, But old
Jack wasn't working for the furni
ture and glass factories that night
He sat down quiet and sang Ram
bic" In . half-hearted way. His feel
lnRs had been hurt. no the twenty
hid ma because his sffer 10 the