The Republican., 1922-01-19

His heart rose in his throat.
| II bet you look swell in red, Miss
Sadie. But a girl like you looks swell
in anything"
Reds my color. Dee Dee says my
mama was gay one, too, when 1t
| came to color. Gimme red every time.
| Dee Dee's the one that's always kick
ing against red; she says got too
| flashy taste"
Say, if she keeps bossing and boss
ing at you, what do you keep on living
with her for?"
wouldn't you live with your own
mothers sister If she raised you from
a kid? What am l going to do, put
her In cold storage, now that her eyes
are going back on her? Up In the rib
bons she can't hardly keep her colors
| graduated no more, that's how blind
she's getting. What am l going to
| dof
Honest, Miss Sadie, didn't know
that she was your aunt and that her
eyes was bad. just thought she was
some Old girl up in the ribbons you
was living with for company. Hon
est, l didn't know she had bad eyes.
| Gee!"
mo, they amt bad. Only she's so
blind she reads her paper upside down
and gets sore if you tell her about it,"
"And me thinking she was nothing
but a near-sighted old crouch with a
name like a sparrow"
Miss Barnet laughed with an up
ward trill.
dee Dee amt her real name. When
l was a kid and she took me to raise,
that's the way l used to pronounce
Aunt Edith. Gee you don't think Dee
Dee was the name they sprinkled on
her when they christened her, did
you?"
Max Meltzer leaned to the breath Of
her laughter as if he would fill his
lungs with it.
Gee! but you're a cute little lady
when you laugh like that"
Say, and amt you a freshie! Just
because you're going to be promoted to
buyer for your department won't get
your picture in the Sunday supple
ment. No white goods buyer 1 know
of ever had to build white marble IL
braries or present a bread-line to the
city to get rid of his pin-money.
Say, amt it hot? With the Open
ing on Monday, they better get the fans
working. Last year three girls keeled.
| Honest, sometimes I think I'd rather
spend the summer under the daisies
out on the hill than down here in this
basement"
Don't I wish I had an auto to take
! you spinning in tOnight!
You ought to see the flyer friend
of mine has got. A Mercury Six with
a limousine top like a grand-opera
box"
"Your-your-friend? II guess if
you got swell friends like that a boat
excursion down the river amt got
much of a sound for you"
HE says he's got a launch in sum-
mer-"
Honest, Miss Sadie, II just been
trying for the better part of two weeks
to ask permission if I could come and
/ call on you some evening, Miss Sadie,
but"
"WhOOps amt he the daredevil ~
'The first boat of the season, Miss
| Sadie, swell new one they call the
White Gull, goes down to Coney to-
night, and it being real springtime,
and you feeling kind Of full of it, I
thought maybe, it being the first boat
Of the season, maybe you would take
a river ride this grand April night,
Miss Sadie"
Her glance slanted toward him, full
of quirks
"My Aunt Dee Dee, Mr.. Meltzer,
she's right strict with me. She don't
think l ought to keep company with
any boys that don't come to see me
first at my house"
II know it, Miss Sadie; that's the
get around her all right. Wasn't she
down here in the basement the first
| day l heard about my promotion, and
| didn't she give me the glad hand and
seem right friendly to mef"
Il
Anyways, If her eyes amt too bad,
Mr.. Meltzer, l got date with my
friend if his car is out Of the shop
from having the limousine top taken
off. We-we're going for a little
| spin"
A quick red belied her insouciance
and she made a little foray into the
bin of mill-ends.
Gee If I've made three sales this
livelong day l don't know nothing
about two of them"
Max Meltzer met her dancing gaze,
piniOning it with his own quiet eyes.
you're right to pick out the lucky
fellow who can buy a good time. A
little girl like you ought to have every
enjoyment there is. If 1 could give 1t
to you, do you think 1 would let the
other fellows beat me to It? The best
amt none too good for little lady
like you"
"Aw, Mr.. Meltzer" Her bosom filed
and waned "Aw, Mr.. Meltzer!"
81 mean it"
An electric bell grilled through his
words. Miss Barnet sprang rehexly
from the harness of an eight-hour day.
| CAV lOOka and | wanted to sneak