Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-04
An
Adventure
Romance

from a super into star Of the first
magnitude. He decided that II didn't
much matter who waited the couple
from dinner 10 the show. but that the
next EXTRACT would hold the crux Of
the nights entertainment, for the cab
that secured the freight for the caba-
ret would stand a good chance of nall
ing IL after the ball.
Consequently ne was content to pick
up gutter-snipe and then trail his
prey TO the theater. "Them Is the
two" he said to his ally, suborned
with the promise of two bits, cash on
delivery, "the John with the high hat
and the dream-dame In smoke-colored
chiffon"
That's some name for skirt, Cap
said the extreme youth admiringly
IAN some skirt, believe me. Nor |
won't forget EN-"
And he didn't. No sooner had Mr..
Beaeher fremont, bearing n thistle
down burden on his arm, swelled out
from the theater with the anxious look
on his face of man with three cars
In the garage at home and no call
number in his left hand waistcoat
pocket, than the imp was at his side.
Say, mister. wanter taxi? Got one
ut the head of the line that I'd give
up Just TO youse for a dime"
LEAD me to it," said Mr.. fremont
"Say," said the snipe to Randolph
as the car jumped, 1--WE took the boss
inside on fer friend. You watch
yeself"
1t was short run to the lair of
the Midnight Rolic, but Mr.. Randolph
was not surprised at the double wage
he received nor at the murmured con-
versation that accompanied 1t. Fill
up your gas tank and walt for me at
the Seventh avenue northeast corner.
Get mef"
Sure grunted Mr.. Randolph.
"Where to, mister?"
Greenwood hosiery" breathed the
villain.
I'm on" said Mr.. Randolph, ran
his car to the comfortably quiet nook
designated. dug out road map of
Manhattan and vicinity. scrutinized
1t carelessly and settled down to medi-
tate.
To a select and once afiiuent few
the name of the G. hostelry above
mentioned viii bring certain vivid
recollections and will also place the
chronology of this yarn, for the
said abode of revelry was too good to
last very long; 1t choked to df-th op
Its own popularity and Consequent pub
LEFTY. From the outside, even In its
hey-day, 1t presented most innocu-
Gus appearance, just renovated farm
house standing under a clump u veil
Ing sugar-maples on the top of hill
whence the nearest neighbor was out
of sight.
But once within Its modest portal,
It's habitues found themselves In the
cleverest fake atmosphere of pleas
ure-lovlng decade. An organizing gen.
ius, sensitive to all those cheap adj
juncts which usually crate on the soul
lowering at the edge OF the decline
to Avernus, had pandered effectively
W Hn iSuOhie emu uHu Hiuue VI ttNh
small room an Isle of forgetfulness.
price. twenty-five bucks In advance,
supper and drinks extra.
For the benefit of those who do not
remember the epoch of the Green
wood hostelry and are consequently
feading on and ON In mortal dread of
the paragraph that will Introduce the
War, let 1t be said at once, Forget IT,
Stake out the beginning of the inter-
national mix-up, hurl another bound
| airy mark into November of 1918, and
the time left outside of those limits
will be found entirely sufficient to the
needs OF this chronicle. Let 1t further
be noted that 1t is uncomfortable that
single drop of the kind of blood
| which flowed In the veins of Mr.. Rob-
ert Hervey Randolph could ever an
swer TO the name of Stacker, proof
positive in itself that the events herein
set forth happened when the War
| didn't.
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