The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-01-19

"Wherer
There, mama, right ahead"
Here, Mrs. Lefkovitch, let me ad-
just the lenses for you"
mo. no. Mr.. Danziger; fer myself
/ can see. Go away"
Mama! And Mr.. Danziger trying
to be polite TO you"
"Such expensive politeness as Mr..
Danziger's / can get cheaper"
Mama !"
Just what / say / mean"
MIR. Danzinger plunged his hands
into his Scotch tweed pockets, and be-
meath the visor of his Scotch tweed
travellers cap smiled down mt Miss
Lefkovitch blushing there beside her
mother the rich raspberry red Of
shame.
"Your mama's all right, Miss Es-
ther. She isn't going 60 let any OF the
fellows ON this boat get too fresh with
her, are you, Mrs. Lefkovitch7"
She would venture no reply, but
passed the feld-glasses, via her daugh-
ter, back to him.
Il tell you. Aaron, Colt sci dank, Ii
that black line what we see out there
is land under our feet. Just see how
far away Ii looks"
Mr.. Lefkovitch thrust forward a
face covered with q stubble OF black
and gray beard. 4 smile broke through
1t like the white grin OF a faun show
ing through bracken.
"Humph!" he said. Mama, / tell
you but that is sight for you"
Bent were his shoulders, ms IL across
his back lay a pack filled with years.
Four decades previous there had been
a pack there-a literal pack Of the
small goods a housewife buys at her
stoop. Time and the inch-for-inch
doggedness that had stopped his Shout
ders had metamorphosed that pack
on the back into plate-glass en-
porium with mahogany inners, occupy
ing twenty-five leased feet of the most
expensive Broadway frontage i'm the
world.
But eveff Atlas relieved of his vault
would, for sheer physiological reasons.
have to face the world stoop-shoul-
dered. So Aaron Lefkovitch. with his
latter years light, still let his head
rest like ball I'm the valley between
his shoulders.
THAT such a piece Of string out
there, Bertha, should be land!"
Il tell you, Ii amt none too soon
for me. Enough of sea I've got. Never
SO long until / die can / forget them
three rough days, Aaron. Like my
own feelings wasn't enough, ! had to
have you yet on my neck and crying
like a baby I should lay down by you
to die"
ZACH now, Bertha, never In my life
did I ask such thing"
Enough to see is enough, let me
tell you. Like say ten times a day,
IL not for you wanting Europe and to
meet new people. Esther, your papa
and me would ten times over rather
be home In our comfortable fat In
New York. Amt 1t, Aaron? Ten
times more as this Amt it, Aaron =
ia, Bertha, but-enough of your
life you've lived on land not to be so
restless on sea a few days"
"On land, Aaron, many things can't
happen what happens on sea-"
The tail end of her glance, pointed
and dartingiy quick, was for Mr.. Dan
Tiger and his arm, which lay along her
daughters In an approach to a caress.
Mr.. Lefkovitch turned from the rail-
ing and the white froth Of water kick
Ing out from the ships huge flank
and the quiet swish-swash of a quiet
sea, and quirked his left eye with
lightning-quick and vulpine slynesa
toward Mr.. Danziger.
Tonight, Danziger, Officer Childs
says we can have our last little game
up In the homegrown, no through the
windows we can see the Gibraltar
| when she comes I'm sight"
| Aaron, +"
| Zach now, Bertha; tomorrow don't
we land I'm Naples for good? I ask
| you, the last night does IL make any
difference little game more or less !?
II wish already this minute it was
time to get of the boat i'm Naples"
ZACH now, Bertha, my last night on
the boatl What you bet when I got
up today put On my winning clothes
/ got on today enough winning clothes
Danziger, to beat yeu IL you are ten
times so lucky like always"
THAT talk, Aaron, don't get no
where's with me. Lose just 10 much
as you like. / don't worry no more
That's how disguised me and the
ladies on this boat feel about how all
you men lose your shirts off your
backs to Mr.. Danziger. Pull here my
| chair, Esther; that's how disguised
feel. The shirt OF your back yeu can
| lose"
Mama
| Miss Lefkovitch lowered maiden
| eyes before the allusion. assisted hel
| parent TO the steamer chair and
/ packed the rug close about her frank
| ~ distended ankles.
| Mama, you-you mustn& say such
| fhings!"
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