Connecticut western news., 1921-02-03
PART q.
Flesh, Spirit and the Yelled cod.

Flesh, spirit and the NetIe0 0od. Mr. Randolph spent the day getting acquainted and proved himself a good mixer. By telling a few stories that had not yet sifted down from Club land and by standing a few drinks he soon found himself made free of all the technical information he needed and some more that was so ultra-tech- nical that 1t could beat the brains that invented the delicate mechanism of the taximeter He also established l part ownership in a comfortable room in a house very much on the wrong or west side of Broadway, in fact within smelling and almost splitting distance of the North river.
 While he was still in funds he bought himself a woolen khaki over coat with one of those enormous col lars which look like an inverted bucket when they are up and surpass in efficiency the traditional black mask so beloved by illustrators of the week l iy press. He also had a speaking slot ! c,-t I= the glass of the cab window just behind his best ear and subs quently removed and lost the slide that had been fitted over 1t with con- siderable skill and trouble.
 During the next few nights he pro- ceeded to have the time of his life; so much so that he was constantly over wheImed with wonder at his stupidity in not having become a taxi-driver years before It should be remem- bered that MT. Randolph was of New York Yorky; he knew everybody cas- daughter, Eileen, down to the latest addition to the pitiful ranks of the m!dinette. More than that, so broad was his acquaintanceship that as a | sporting gent he had once or twice | been tipped off as to the where and when of proposed gun-play.
 In addition to being by right of birth an integral part of all the social strata of Manhattan, he knew the surface of the island and of the adjacent con- moner soil of the mainland consid- erably better than he knew the palm of his own hand. In fact, he could scarcely ever have been conscious that he had palm, even as map of per sonal fortune; for he who is complete | ly satisfied with the present never worries about the future and MT. Ran- dolph had been born content With such an equipment, Is it to be wondered at that he found the taxi field rich with unexpected and sur 1 prising blooms? Fair flowers, he had known heretofore to nod only over tea tables and solid silver appeared sud-
 denly ransplanted to his cab and ready to nod on a stalwart shoulder. Strong male tiger-lilies of the money market, grafted to the cushions of a taxi. became complacent pillars upon which some clinging ivy twined.
 1 In six nights he learned the sound
 that a banker makes when slender fingers tickle him under the chin the gasp of a girl. frst-kissed; the cry of | a young man upon discovering the ab- sence of grandfather's gold watch, his ] since graduation day; the chuck Of a top-hat fairly sat upon in the excite ment of a moment that else would have been tragic, the exasperating tap
 tap, tap, of hen-pecking tongue that explained and condoned a murder mys
 tery in the next mornings papers, and the sob of a ruined youngster who had played with borrowed money.
 All these incidents took place with people whom MT. Randolph knew CT
 knew of and just to show what an ex.
 tremely honest young man he was, lei
 1t be said that 1t did not once occur ts
 him that he need never be poor while
 humanity, supposedly in good stand
 ing, continued to lay itself open to
 blackmail at the rate of case night
 At the same time, he was not stupid
 and occasionally tapped out a missive
 loaded with dynamite on the garage
 typewriter when no one. was around
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