Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-09

OF the train
You wouldn't dare talk that way
to me. Lo. if it was me instead of
your friend who was directing the
show. You know pretty well you
gotta be as careful each time you
swing that bar out to me as If you'd
never done it before. You don't want
me to land with a broken back, do
you?"
little boy;
You can't tantalize me that way!
You know that amt what's eating
me. I wasn't with Reno's Star Aero,
hat Act for four years to be bluned
of by little extravaganza speciality
act that-that I could do in my
sleep"
Well. if you amt scared you hol-
Ter enough"
Il didn't open Rigley's vaudeville
bill with solo trapeze act for two
years not to learn how to grab bar
that's swung out to me by girl
that's too busy flirting with the stage
director down in the wings to watch
out what's she's doing"
1T didn't even swerve half an inch
last night; you said so yourself.
"Lordy, the nerve of a little kid
like you! Afraid. am 1. Say, l was
an expert acrobat already when
was turning SOmerSaultS in the or
phan asylum's backyard and you was
making fake flowers in a 2sd street
loft Me, afraid Of bar act! l
could do that turn in my sleep if
got the right kind of a feeder"
She burrowed into her handker-
chief. her little travel-stained figure
hunched and abject.
Il wish I was dead"
cav, now, Lo darling. =
! "It just seems like nothing l do
don't suit nobody"
10, darling. just to show you how
you suit me. let's do what l been
begging you to. Let's quit! Then we
won't have nobody to suit but our
selves. Let's you and me quit. that's
how much you suit me. Let's quit.
Quit"
"Yeh, quit. Let's jump. Lee
can't hold us after the way he faxed
the circuit on this show. You say
the word: Lo. and We'll do it r r,gn,
hundred I got saved, Lo, my friend
Ben Collins IL set US up in anything
from a ice cream parlor to the box
business. He's big gun there;
alderman an everything but mayor
He's offered to set me up. Lo. every
last year he was putting up some
little red-roofel cottages near the
station. 1 bet they're ready now
little red-roofed cottages on the hill:
with a weather-cock on the peak OF
the veranda and white picket fence.
and-and, he rents EN-, Lo, We
Honest, Al, you must be crazy
with the heat. l thought you was
only guying all along-or l would
have given you a brain test.
''Guying nothing; the idea has had
me for a month like a house afire. 1
wanna get out of this business, hon,
before you much more than get in.
We can start together in a clean little
town in a clean little way. kitten.
! wanna get you out of the show busl-
ness, Lo. before you more than get
just in. Get you out, kitten. and
Honest. AL you're enough to scare
a girl We can't do crazy thing
like that. What'll Lee say If we
jump? I wanna get on in this busi-
ness. AL I'm just starting. only six
months in the game. and I wanna get
could settle down in tank in
million years"
"All right. in the big town then.
Lo, If"
Gee, wouldn't Lee be sore!"
Lee. always Lee. think you're you're
hurting you. think you wanna stick
around with the director of this show.
that's what think"
whats 1t to you? You amt my
boss I'm a good girl, / am, and no
man can cast insinuations about me.
-I-"
TO. darling"
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CHE was sobbing again-hurt, jerky
- little commissions that racked her.
Beneath the rumble of the train her
voice was throaty and full Of tears.
''Where'd be now. I'd like to know"
"shh-h-h, Lo, Lee hisself don't need
to hear you" Il
"I'm an ambitious girl, / am. II
amt ready to settle down yet In a
tank by a, long shot. / gotta keep my
stand-fn. I'll be doing q single on
the Amsterdam roof byA next summer,
see if I don't And salving 1t on is
ahead. I'm keeping my weather eyes
on Broadway. I am
Take it from me, hon. and I'm your
friend for telling you. you're cute ana
all; CAD, l never seen any one could
touch you. but there amt no future
like yours. You amt got the voice.
hon. You're pretty as peaches.
.fou-you'd take the life out Of
any girl with your joy killing. Ever
since we left Higginsvine and you
seat. you been sittin' here joy killing"
But, Lo, darling
"Lemme alone"
"Maybt I'm nothing but a little
I'm all the names you call me right
here on this seat and maybe I amt.
Maybe I'm nothing but a little hirt
and maybe I amt. Maybe I'm going
to fiirt with Lee in the wings tonight
and maybe I amt. now wnatta going
to do about it?'
she threw down the gauntlet from
a high hand. the rod Of resolve
STRENGTHENING her back.
Il don't need to stand for no man
sitting here and running me down to
my face all the way from Higgins
vile to Adalai. I'm an ambitious girl.
l am, and no man can say the things
you said to me right here in this
train and get away with them.
Lemme out"
He unwound his feet and terked
his coat lapels together angrily. Be-
meath his tiny clipped hedge of mus
tache his straight lips were COM
pressed.
a good spanking"
"You try it,
"A good garden variety Of spank
ing to bring you to your senses!"
"Lemme out, you! I don't have to
sit here and be talked to by fellow
that amt a gent! Spank me! You
just dare to lay a hand on me. You!
your.
She was edging past him to the
aisle.
"shh-h-, you don't need to air your
temper to the company. Lo. Here
put on your coat. Here we are at
Adalai."
Down the length of the coach.
heada rumnled with aleen apneared