Evening star., 1921-04-24

it's been q pleasant evening for him
he forgets to mention that too. That
leaves me and the General and Sweet
Caps. and we sets awhile waitin FOR
First Aid to come slippin' back and
return to US our ostensible losses and
cut up the Chairman's two thousand
with the rest of US. But he don't come.
and Sweet Caps goes out to see whAt
detainin' him.
In a minute Sweet Caps comes
playmate is missin'. He amt IN his
room. and the night clerk reports that
q person answerin' to the general
plans and specifications OF p. Alex.
just now paid his bill and departed in
q taxi.
AT this 1 jumps up with an agon-
ized cry. rememberin' that there per-
| idious Icy has just about got time
| to get the 11:I5 il he hurries. ,Simul-
taneous, the same horrible thought
comes to the General. and he jumps
mp, too. But 1 reminds him, while we
were grabbin' for our coats and hats.
! that 1t won't never do for him TO be
engaged in a personal alteration
with a common crook. You stay here.
general. yells to him as me and the
Sweet Caps Kid makes for the door.
| and we'll go ketch up with him. Stay
right here / says, until you get word
from u.s.
Il w men II SouitS " ltltih ophVspNg
else do the rough work and take all
the risks, the General is certainly old
Col. Buck Passer's favorite nephew.
He falls back into his chair. beggin'
| US to lose no time. and as We tears
down the hall we hears him utterin
moanin' sounds.
Take it from me, we loses no time.
We jumps into a taxicab that hap
pens 10 be waitin' outside the front
door and tears for the station. We
arrives there just as the little 11:15
choo -choo is on the point Of departin'
for Chicago and all points east. We
runs through the gate and piles
aboard her and goes rampagin' into
the sleeper and shoves open the door
of the stateroom. And sure enough.
Mr.. First Aid Izzy is hidden away
there. He's engaged with his back
to the door. and he's engaged in
pulfin' money out OF all his pockets
and pilin' il up on the seat in front of
him preparatory to sortin' and count
in.
He looks up, but before he's had
time to say a word we've got the
stateroom door fastened on the in
side. Just as We falls upon him with
joyful cries. the train pulls out. bear
in me and him and the Sweet Caps
Kid far. far away into the Silly night.
So when the first excitement has died
down. / takes charge OF the dough
and divides it up proper. And as for
Izzy he appears to be perfectly salts
fed with what he gets
broke in here.
Surely" / asked, You didn't give
him anything after he'd tried to run
away with the entire pot?
why shouldn't we give him any
Of it, countered Mr.. Dolan. Look
at the trouble he had been put to
leaving his regular engagements and
jumpin' all the way out from Saint
Louie on the strength OF the telegram
he got from me Wednesday morning.
And anyway, amt he the Sweet Caps
Kids own half-brother? No. sir. he
gets all that comm to him-hes done
earned it.
But / knowed the dear old General
would be settin' up waitin' for the
word I'd agreed to send him. and al
ways believe in keeping my promises.
So, from the next station. sends him
q wire readin' as follows:
"'Dear General: You was dead
right. It's better to cut a melon
three ways than four. Which we have
"tsignedD Scandalous.
Sweet Caps.
Brother Ixxy."
But" concluded Mr.. Dolan. ct
don't sent it C. o. D.-I sends IL pre-
paid. right out OF my own pocket I
| Judged the general might not have
the cash with him to pay for ii X 1t
comes collect
(Copyright 1921. Printed by arrangement with
Metropolitan Service and The Washington Star