The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
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 TyvELYN the Exquisite Checker. monarch etfhat
 seeter "backstakey in the restaurant be-
 tween the kitchen and the dining room, where all walters had to pass n review between the rails bef6Fe her throne to have the bad news punched into the cheeks, was footing up row of figures. She had counted 1t nine times and hadn't found the same spm twice That will get a saint psesish. And Evelyn good girl scout that ehs was had no expectations of being eanopized In this lfe or any future estate.
 She was threefourths dewn on the fifth return trip and had feeling that this tine everything would como out all iaige-~when cheery voice hit her ear, and she jumped wtth sudden jar. lost her place with her pencil point, and hae pied uR the whole mess.
 ! Sha lifted her face and turned 1t with expression such as Dempsey throws @ at the sound Of the bell. He'd it been Shorty the Waiter, or sven the swallow, tailed captain himself, she would have guipsd him raw, like sn oyster; but t was Gus the Bus.
 Evelyn had long since resigned herself to the inevitapls-there was no sense or use 0r profit ln getting angry ct the funlbiefingered, tanslefooted youth of vacant visage end amiable. naive and guileless natura,
 Hello, Misgus Eft1yn," sang GHBs 5beamtng.
 "say, listen. blunderbus." parked tbs Exquisite Checker trying hard to be angry, "the nex time you chirp up when I'm In the middle Of row Q figgers that are shimmyin, an hopscOtchiH' on me I'll knock you 30 cold you'll keep sill cAFistmas"
 "oh. uo ma'ami woulaat. I'm only want to say good'mcrning py you an to bring you some things"
 She locked aewn. His hands came iron behind his bauh. where the monkey jacket of his servtude ended Tn one he had bunch of white carnations surrounded by wsedy feTnb, and in the other s crinkled paper bag.
 } "For mel" asked Evelyn. "That's for who they ein' nobody else sxceptiH' but" grinned Gus, who prided himself on his gin gery vernaculas, "Them gre garnstieasp "No!"
 "oh, yes The nan in the florist he's said me so, They are from yesterday but he's said ne they're. still pretty peppisk Carnations is use to 1t to lf more as one daE, Would you take frem me thamfe
 Well, don't kn6w, hlunderbag. It's an old Bayin' to beware O GTeaks carvytn' gifts.p
 "oh, but Mssas Eff1yn, I'm ant 10 Greek. Nick, that other busser, he's Greek But you dent need worry; he wealap,t bFtng youno gltfets. That guy he's so shtipgy when he opens ID his poelet book flies out . moth. But by meEWelI, jte dtff'- rent. I'm brang yov net only gaFpatlens wesshtz but in this bag se aaRdyF "Hey-what is this ghowerins mo with them pres, 
 be, huh3 Are geU tfyta. 70 undermine my Fesis- tance, or have yeB Eos ssmethln' ep your con, gcience7" M
 T don know wAak sAem g, both of 'sm. Bat tf youmean did I 6es RlI thsge fine noweFa and candy honest--no. ma'amj Aiape stsal 'em.v "NEaybe you ldat @ut maybe yea swiped the small foFchun took te buy lem, or aid rioh uncle kick of t
 [ ''say. Missug Esflga, # mg Hncla he sicka etf, huvg Jfa7zaw al rich relations he gieiEe off, I'm tho Eeletten what gicks in. In my faMly, Tn the mlllieRaiFes
 "That makes them flock q John D. EoFas, GHs. We'll, then, come clean with Anntie Evelyn-wheFe'h you get the bankrell to 90 buyln blondes that mag niticial bOo-kay ap' that aoggy bag O digestioa' destroyersy"
 "Oh, 1t ain nothin' sh0FdE he gives me my share from his tips; anve-''
 "Go easy. In the bright laxlRgton outta which Shorty studied. they ain nc such word as give. know he's s'posed to slip you, but f you ever stick out your fin he'll bounce watercavaffe often your brick steeple. Say, you ain't been speccelatin?"
 "speeeewhoin'? Is that somethin' dirty?'
 ''Well! 1t amt any too clean. You aint been huyin' up California Pete on margins or gettln in on the ground floor on Bethlem steel?"
 'T couidn do what you're said me. beeus don know what is It. But If you mean did shoot graps. well, wouldn tell no lies, Missus Eff Iyn."
 "O-hoI So you been takin hand at senegam- Cian nah jongg, chi" t
 ,''With two square white things what got lot O black spots"
 "Yeh; I've had them black spots floatn' before my eyes Who's went an learned you that racket?"
 "oh, shordy-an some O them other waiders They said fade 'sm, SO I'm put down a quarder an right away got half thalsr, an pretty soon I'm fish if ain'd got it three tbaers an sigsty cents An then so away"
 "Atta,bus. bet there was lamsntation an gnash- in O teeth when cluck like you walked out on that mob O yeggs a winner"
 "Not 50 much. They're call me few names, but no new ones"
 "so--that's where you got the jack to go blowin women to lugJurious handouts?"
 Sure. When q man he gambles is alwus in his head girl For her he hopes he wins. so he could buy for her presents she should know what he thinks from her."
 That's the eats, Gus; an, you think O. me as |, steep eight carnations an absg O peanut bTithefa eff was rich. I think from you as high as nin9dy roses an pound of choc'atss. I'm thinkin' fool