The spectator., 1921-08-12
PART ll-Continued.

sounds kinda phony to me" said the captain grimly. "considerln' you . took this same gent home a week ago come Friday"
 Did l?" said Slim. and with feigned surprise managed finally to recognize the mess of evening clothes that was huddled on nearby bench. You're right, Captain. He's drunker than I ever saw him before and besides, he's wearin' a new set of shirt-studs Kind of changed his looks"
 Slim fingered Look. here" he mur. mured to the captain confidentially. "You're on to me. but just let me whisper. I'm getting to be the deliv- cry wagon for all the high-spot soaks in town. The first one of 'em that loses his jewelry between the curb and his own front door, just tell me where get of, will you? I'm honest i: I got a reputation, an I tell you. Cap tain. Pun willin' to bill 'em through for you when you ask for the home port, but it's nix on me handlin' all the high-explosive freight north of Forty second street. Get mer"
 Sure. Slim." said the captain. ap- preciatively 'T'li pass the word. lad"
 Thus did Mir. Randolph make good his new front name and little capi- tai besides. working sn the stalwart old motto: Every knock is boost. Instead of becoming mystery and consequently anathema to the Force. an impression was created that Slim was hustler. but clean white goods ready to sacrifice q fare or two that he might sit high up alongside Cae- sars wife. By stopping at two or three strategically placed police sta tons during the wind before the dawn acquaintance. he was able to give the glad hand of farewell to job not to his taste.
 About this time series of coinci- dences befell the young and fevered Fair of the city of New York which would have given pause to the persons involved had they been able to get together and compare the dope. Take what happened to Miss Georgiette Hattone. Her people had played In hard luck and died. Georgie had se- cured job and was doing pretty we'll at 1t until young Doctor Bones met her and gradually persuaded her that she was threatened with gallop- ing consumption. Once he had fright ened her. the rest looked easy he would take her out of bad ventilation into his run-about and the open-air- out of the goodness of his heart and the fullness of his purse. he would take care of her.
 He began by leading her to Neth- erllmb Show and supper afterward. They danced little and for the first time fin her life hut under medical advice, she took something in the way of stimulant after the initial pret- ty cocktail They issued from supper and 1t was when Mir. Chauffeur Slim Herv~y heard the whispered address that the game became a three.Nome.
 Counting upon the abstraction. or rather, the concentration of his fares on interior fittings, Driver Hervey soon switched his cab from the char tered route and made for downtown through silent back streets. In just ten minutes he drew up at an old fashioned house in very quiet square, shut off his engine to the idle and waited. Not for long. Out of the cab came blasphemous exclama- ton in medical tones and with 1t cry of awakening from Georgie. Through one window she looked upon the home of her childhood; through the other upon that happy railed gar. dcn-sIuare, which was the umbrageous garner-close of all her dearest. purest and dreamiest memories.
 "Oh!'' she gasped. No, you mustn't ecold him. This is just where want to get out and walk. It's--it's extraor- oinary." Then from the curb. T may pe going to die of consumption. dos