The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-02-03

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"I'm Getting to Be the Delivery Wagon
for All the High-Spot soaks In
Town."
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
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
we'll 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-ah-
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 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 just
ten minutes he drew up at an old
fashioned house in a very quiet
square, shut off his engine to the idle
and waited. Not for long. Out Of
the cab came a blasphemous exclama-
ton in medical tones and with it a
cry Of awakening from George.
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
g~arner-close Of all her dearest, purest
and dreamiest memories.
"Oh" she gasped. "No, you mustn't
scold him. This Is just where / want
to get out and walk. lists extraor-
dinary." Then from the curb. 81 may
be going to die Of consumption, doc
tor, but, after all, I'd rather-rather
die that way"
Twist things around q little and
you'll get what happened to Miss Ter
ry de Guest with the. difference that
that beautiful and hungry young wom-
an who had all but turned her back
on Settlement work and her face to
the Great White Way, suddenly awoke
not in the moonlit embrace Of Clair
monte, but before the accusing face
Of a House in Henry street.
Nor was Mr.. Slim Hervey partial
to SCI in salvation. There wal the
instance of young Bertram Blossome
who shame-facedly hurried into his
cab a painted, wan-faced waif OF the
street with self-accusing eyes. No
case this Of hunted and hunter-rath-
er two strayed bits Of weak humanity
driven before the unleashed dogs of
poverty and lust. How readily and
unquestieningly the boy slipped from
the cab at his home address, miracu-
lously confused almost as By the med
ding finger Of God with one very
d~ifterentl How gratefully the girl
took the possible fare and something
over" and how her tears brimmed
when ten minutes later the blqe-eyed
chauffeur, q wage-earner like herself,
sid: Nothing doing. Sister. The
ride Y On n, Z and promptly whirled
awayf
While III these incidents were en-
saginE, each IA III own way. and
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