Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-27

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
well at it until young Doctor Bones
met her and gradually persuaded her
that she was threatened with galIOp
ing consumption. Once he had fright
ened her. the rest looked easy; he
would take her ont 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 Meth
crlimb 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
~ cocktail. They issued from supper
and it 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 very quiet
square. shut off his engine to the idle
and waited. Not for long. Out of
the cab came blasphemOuS eyclama-
ton in medical tones and with it
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
garner-close of all her dearest, purest
and dreamiest memories.
on" she Gasped NO, you mustn't
scold him. This is just where I want
to get out and walk. lists extraor-
binary" Then from the curb. 81 may
be going to die of consumption, doe
pr, but, after all, I'd rather-rather
die that way"
Twist things around a little and
you'll get what happened to Miss Ter
ry de Guest with the difference that
that beautiful and hungry young WON
an who had all but turned her back
on Settlement work and her face to
the Great White Way, suddenly awoEe
not in the moonlit embrace of Clair
monte, but before the accusing face
of House in Henry street
Nor was Mr.. fSIjm Heryey partial
to sex in salvation. There was the
instance Of young Rertram Blossome
who shame-facedly hurried into his
cab 4 painted, Wan-faced waif of the
street with self-aCcUsing eyes. No
case this of hunted and hunter-rath-
or two strayed bits Of weak humanity
driven before the Unleashed dogs of
poverty and lust. How readily and
unquestioningIy the boy slipped from
the cab at his home address, miracu-
lousy confused almost as by the med
ding finger of God with one very
Different How. gratefully the girl
took the possible fare and something
over" and how her tears brimmed
when ten minutes later the bluc-eyed
chauffeur, a wage Garner like herself,
said: Nothing doing, Sister The
ride is on me-" and promptly whirled
away!
While all these incidents we're en-
saging, each in its own way, and
showed a reasonable profit to all con
cerned, Mr.. Randolph looked upon
them more or less as a means of get,
ting in his hand during a period of
initiation. Once he felt sure of him
self and OF his new chaulfeuring point
of view and attitude toward the gay
world from the under side, he began
to haunt the neighborhood of East
Ninth street at the hour when dinners
are plenty and taxis scarce.