Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-04
PART ll-contlnued.

sounds kinda phony TO me-" said
the captain grimy. "conslderin' you
took this same gent home week ago
come Friday"
ibid IT, 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
ever saw him before and besides. he's
wearin' a new set of shlrt-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 hlgh-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 get off, will you? I'm honest;
! got reputation, an I tell YOU, Cap
tain, I'm wlilin' to bin '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 mer'
"Sure. Slim" said the captain. APP
preciatively. "I'll pass the word. lad"
Thus did Mr.. Randolph make good
his new front name and little capt.
tal besides. working on the stalwart
old motto: Every knock is boost.
Instead of becoming mystery and
consequently annthema TO the Force,
an impression was created that slim
was hustler, but clean white goods
ready to sacrifice 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
to ticket such DRINKS as were of his
acquaintance. he was able to give the
glad hand of farewell to job not
to his taste.
About this time q series of colnci-
dences hefell the young and feyered
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 job and was doing pretty
well at II until young Doctor Bones
met her and gradually persuaded her
that she was threatened with gailop-
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-aire-
out Of the goodness of his heart and
the fullnesS of his purse. he would
take care OF her.
He began by leading her 10 Meth.
erlimb Show and supper afterward
They danced 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
~ cocktail. They issued from supper
and 1t was when Mr.. Chauffeur slim
Hervey heard the whispered address
that the game became threesome.
Counting upon the abstraction, OF
rather. the concentration OF his fare.
on interior fittings, Driver Herve,
soon switched his cab from the char
tered route and made for downtown
through silent back streets. In JUS
ten minutes he drew up at an old
fashioned house In very quie
square. shut off his engine to the idl,
and waited. Not for long. Out o
the cab came a blasphemous exclama
ton In medical tones and with ii ,
cry of awakening from George
Through one window she looked upor
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, pures
and dreamiest memories.
"oh!" she gasped mo, you muslin
scold him. This is just where | wan
TO get out and walk lists extraor
binary" Then from the curb. II ma,
be going to die of consumption, doc