Evening star., 1921-08-28

i NJ strong for my friends. the few
that I've got. But say, they do
keep one busy, don't they? Take
Ines and Barry Platt. Miss Pet
erson first. Here 1 thought had her
all placed. Her rich Uncle Nels. after
a good deal Of skitterinE around, had
asked her to come and share MS
nine-room elevator apartment. keep
him from being lonesome and help
spend some OF his income. What
could be fairer than that, or softer?
Yet at the end of the one day
Ines takes to think 1t over she calmly
shakes her head and announces that
it's all off.
.whaddye mean. on?" says l.
'Whats the idea?"
AYE gotta job" says lnez.
1T must be q snap de luxe" says
]. ito make you turn down all Uncle
Nels' offers. What sort of JOB?
SAWS 'Gne. ines 'A"f twenty re- W dollars a week
und see all the reels
Great lollypops" says ]. You'd
rather do that than be the favorfte
niece of a kind old plute whose
only out is that he likes to sail tin
DO8t6 III tu0
"Huh!" says Ines. 'Old dumhuvud!"
"Eh?" says I. Doom-what?
BY Sweden" exciaims Inez. they
would call him that"
oh: say: y, n ncs scsndinaviam a. s,,r. thaurh .Gr
,as qn"pssi stsisss sh me as n'' being 20 s father
shrsvd old scout IN . good many
ways. He must have worked up good
credit at the bank. You can't hate
him for that. can you?
Ines shrugs her shoulders. I'm
ticket BOOTH" says she. II see every.
every night"
A. under the bright lights. And all
tho young hicks and the old sports
they filed by. And you'd hear the or
chestra playing. and by stretching
your neck around you could see tho
pictures, all free gratis for nothing.
But after you'd seen the same feature
same tunes for q month, and got the
cut-up wink from q thousand risky
males every night, don't you think,
Ine.: you'd get sort OF Ted up on It
Ines comes a. near pouting as her
placid disposition will let her and can
guess that she looks on me As crepe
hanger. Maybe like 1t all tine." she
insists.
can teu. tnougn, that nne NOT %
out into the hall and phones for Uncle
Nels to come around. stop on your
way and tuck under your arm 4 box Of
fancy chocolates for Ines. says 1.
toc oo Or nsss sss 70 give "a: you G'tS the cold sse
She's been offered = sit-down Job in
high" ~, u. ,.,,
But when he shows up at the board
ing house he has . cargo Of candy and
humility and there's a pleading look In
his skim milk blue eyes, a quaint old
pink and white face and the thin gray
ish hair he looks something like q
wrinhlsd baby who needs n shave. He
gases friendly at Ines and sighs.
"Yust IKE your mothsr. you are"
together long ago. We had hard times
for while, but We stick together. Then
ehe gets married and lives on farm and
has big family. Always hard work for
ms,,,!r,. hss; sh: get sick and die You re-
Inc: mods. but goes on munchins
You was 10. u years old then" says
Uncle Nsi:. rubbing his chin rsminis-
came. what tongue! She make you
work, too. no like her. i don't come
any more. When they hear / make
money she writes letters to beg. No.
Not q krone for her. But you don't ask
nothing. Like your mother. She
wouldn't. What would she think Of mo
if didn't do something for her girl?
Anyway. I'm gettin' old man now. I
don't like to be alone 30 much, and II
talk with strangers set In trouble. So
you come, eh?
Inez may have been touched. but
you'd never guess It. What she seems
most interested In IL peeling the tinfoil
of . fancy bonbon. But finally she
looks up and asks: Gould Trilby May
come. too?"
"Oh, come, Inez, be fair" breaks In. |