The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-03-02

says, Joe. You mustn't feel hard to-
ward her; that's just her way"
"She's a fine lady, all right, but she's
got me dead wrong. Why, honest to
God, Esther, as I sit here'if it wasn't
that I'd like TO see your old gentleman
win bach them few hundred bones, l
wouldn't have touched another card
after the first game"
81 knew that, Joe. That's Just what
l keep telling mama"
"You sweet little thing you-taking
up for me like that"
'T Just keep telling her that"
"She's got me down wrong for a
sport. Why, true as l sit here. grille.
if my business didn't carry me like
this all over the world, I could settle
down In a good commercial town with
a boy like that brother of yours that
your father is trying to find a partner
for, make a go of the business and
live quiet the rest of my life. That's
the kind of a hairpin I am"
ooh. Joe, you-you will just love
Niche, when you see him. One great
boy If there ever vas one, and bust
ness like papa to his inger-tips. You
and him in a little business together,
say, wouldn't that be greatl Just look
at papa-how-how little he started,
way down on the East side and-and
look at his store now-so big and all"
"I'm not much of a fellow to boost
myself, Esther, but with a young fell
- ~ 49, n hn1n mo -,,c1 4, I,,rf
ness, l could make a go of almost any
thing. I'm the kind of fellow that has
made easy all my life and spends just
as easy. A dollar don't look as big to
me as a dime to lots of fellows. Get
me?"
Eyes"
Gust like I car win at cards easy,
l can make easy money on any bust
ness proposition l put my mind to.
Saw. right now Pm making three times
what any fellow in my line is making.
But I'm getting sick of this country
to-country business, Esther. There's
money in it, but I'm just about ready
to get me a good partner, settle down
and get me a little-get me a home!
Get me, Esther? A home is what l
want
eyes, joe"
"Get me a partner and settle down."
"a fellow like you would just be
the making of a boy like my brother
Niche. He's such a kid yet, and two
years older than me, too. But he's
Iao, ,-,Ja, 1ooo5c fhI1nnh in fhor hI1Ci-
ness too long. A boy like him. that
never would go to school, gets into
business early. What he needs nov is
to get out and hustle for himself in a
business that isn't already made.
That's what l always say-papa ought
to set Niche up for himself"
"Sure thingl Say. I guess a man
like your papa could set his son up
in business with twenty or thirty thou
sand and not feel it. eh?"
"That's what Niche says, but pas
slow about it,"
"Your brothers got the right idea
all right why, / bet if your papa had
three sons he could set them up In
business and not feel it, Ell? I know
a thing or two about the money that's
been made in the mems clothing bust
ness the last fifteen years"
"Pa-pa is right rich, l guess"
"And a grand old man if there ever
was one"
"He sure is and self-made, too. Hon.
est, it's just like a story the way he
Notwithstanding and making his
way peddling, and then when he mar
ried mama, right from off the East
side, too, the two of them starting the
little store together, the two of them
pushing through all the dirt of the
East side and coming out of it so fine
and all. Shows how goodness can
grow out of all that filth down there,
don't it, Joe?"
TITS grand, Esther"
"Him and mama don't show it, may
be, but they're just pure gold, they
are. They-they're just pure gold"
His hand lay over hers, quieScent.
A waiter lowered in the distance. The
gabble and laughter of tourists was
suddenly remote.
eff the old gentleman only won't stir
up a game tonight, Esther, We'll make,
a last evening of it on board, a%lrighty."
81 just told papa he-he couldn't
drag you down there tonight, Gibral-
tar coming in sight and you knowing
so much to describe about places"
81 sure want to stick with you to-
night. Esther. fact is, | just want
to stick with you all of them"
Her hand flew to her breast.
"Joe!'
my little dearie-girlie-I want to
steal you"
ooh, Joe-you-you mustn't"
But he was on his feet suddenly
and ~grasping his hat from the table.
"Gad," he cried, there's the boat
whistling three times. We got to do
some tall sprinting, grille. Look, the
rest of them have all started down
already"
"Oh. Joe! Mama Let's run. Let's"
Hand in hand and with the Hellenic
swing of youth, they scuttled across