Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-07-30
PART Ii--Continued.

Sounds kinda phony to me-" said
the captain grimly, "considerln' you
took this same gent home a week ago
come Friday"
did II" said Slim, and with feigned
surprise managed finally to recognize
the mess Of evening clothes that was
huddled on a nearby bench. you're
right, Captain. He's drunken than l
ever saw him before and besides, he's
wearin' O new set Of shirt-studs. Kind
of changed his looks"
Slim fingered. Look here" he muir.
INJURED to the captain confidentially.
"You're on to me. but just let me
whisper. Tn 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 I get off, will you? I'm honest;
I got a reputation, an | tell you, Cap
tain, I'm 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 me?"
"Sure, SLIM" said the captain, APP
preciatively, "Tll pass the word, lad"
Thus did Mr.. Randolph make good
his new front name and a little capt.
tai besides. working on the stalwart
old motto: Every knock is a boost.
Instead Of becoming a mystery and
consequently anatbema to the Force,
an impression was created that Slim
was a hustler, but clean white goods
ready to sacrifice a fare or two that
he might sit high up alongside Gaze
sar's wife. BY stopping at two or
three st~rategically placed police sta
lions during the wind before the dawn
to ticket such DRINKS as were Of his
acquaintance, he was able to give the
glad hand Of farewell to a job not
to his taste.
About this time a 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. George had Sc
cured a job and was doing pretty
well 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 hear. and
the fullness &c his purse, he would
take care OF her.
He began by leading her to q Meth
erimb Show and supper afterward.
They danced a little and for the first
time in her life, but under medical
advice, she took something in the
way OF stimulant after the initial pref
ty cocktail. They issued from supper
and 1t was when Mr.. Chauffeur Slim
Hervey heard the whispered address
that the game became a threesome.
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 lust
ten minutes he drew up at an old.
fashioned house In q very quiet
square, shut Off his engine to the idle
and waited. Not for long. Out of
the cab came a b~lasphemous excIama-
ton in medical ones and with 1t a
cry of awake Ang from George.
Through n window she looked upon
the home of her childhood; through
the other upon that happy rallied gar
~den-square, which vas the umbrageous
ganer-close OF all her dearest. purest
and dreamiest memories.
"ohl" she gasped. mo, you mustn,t
scold him. This is just where I want
20 get out and walk. lists extraor-
binary" Then from the curb. Il NAV
be going to die Of consumption, doc