Washington telegraph., 1921-04-29
PART ll-continued.


sounds kinda phony to me-" said
the captain grimly, "conslderin' 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
eight, Captain. He's drunker than /
ever saw him before and besides, he's
wearln' 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. 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 l get off, viii you? I'm honest :
got a reputation, an tell you, Cap
tain, Pm willin' to bill 'em through for
YOU when you ask for the home port.
but it's nix on me handlin' all the
hlgh-exploslve freight north of Forty
second street. Get me?"
"Sure. Slim" said the captain, ap-
preclatlvely. am pass the word. lad"
Thus did Mr. Randolph make good
his new front name and a little capi-
tai besides. working on the stalwart
old motto: Every knock is a boost.
Instead of becoming a mystery and
consequently anathema 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 strategically placed police sta
lions during the wind before the dawn
10 ticket such drunks 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 series of colnci-
denceS befell the young and fevered
Fair of the city Of New York which
would have given pause to the persons
inyslved 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 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
cned 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 a Meth
erlimb Show and supper afterward.
They danced little and for the first
time in her life, but under medical
advice, she took something i'm the
way Of stimulant after the initial pref
ty cocktail They issued from supper
and It was when Mr. Chauffeur Slim
Hervey heard the whispered address
that the game became a threeNome.
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 or his engine to the idle
and waited Not for long. out Of
the cab came a blasphemous exclama-
tion in medical tones and with 1t a
cry of awakening from Georgie.
Through one window she looked upon
the home Of her childhood: through
the other upon that happy rallied gar
den-square which was the outrageous
garner-close Of all her dearest, purest
and dreamiest memories.
"Oh - she gasped "No, you mustn't
scold him. This is just where I want
to get out and walk. lists extraor-
iinary." Then from the curb. II may
] ,p -o'n~ TO die of consumption. doc