Evening star., 1924-11-09

The sausage chappie chuckled anus
edly.
''I can't go to the Cosmopolis looking
like this" Archie was little embar-
raSSed.
"Oh. don't know, you know, don't
you know he said. 'Stil, since YOU
have brought the topic up in the course
OF general chit-chat, you did get the
good old wardrobe a bit mixed this
morning-what? I mean to say, you
seem, absent rindedly, as it were. to
have got hold of samples from good
number of your various suitings."
'Suitings?' How do you mean
'suitings?' l haven't any suitiugs.
Who do you think ann Vincent Astor?
All have is what l stand up in"
A RCHIE was shocked. This tragedy
"A touched him. He himself had
never had any money in his life, but,
somehow, he had always seemed to
manage to have plenty of clothes.
How this was, he could not say. He
had always had vague sort of idea
that tailors were kindly birds who
never failed to have pair Of trou-
sers or something up their sleeve to
present to the deserving.
My dear old lad" he said, briskly.
this must be remedied. oh, posi-
lively. this must be remedied at once.
/ suppose my things wouldn't fit you?
No? Well. 1 tell you what. Well
wangle something from my father
in-law. Old Brewster. you know, the
fellow who runs the Cosmopolls.
His'll fit you like the paper on the
wall. because he's a tubby little
blighter, too. What l mean to say is,
he's also one of those sturdy. square.
- ~, nf nh
middle height.
Il gather said the man with the
scar, that you have a pull with your
father -in-law?
absolutely. Quite the spoiled
child and whatnot. BY the way.
where are you stopping these days
Nowhere just at present.
thought of taking one of those self
contained park benches"
Are YOU broke?'
Am t.
Archie was concerned.
You ought to get job.
Il ought But, somehow, / don't
seem able to-
What did you do before the war;"
I've forgotten
How do you mean-'forgotten' ?
You can't mean-'forgotten'?
Yes. It's quite gone"
But mean 10 SaS-Sou can [
have forgotten a thing like that"
Cant l? I've forgotten all sorts
of things. Where l was born. How
old 1 am. Whether I'm married or
single. What my name is"
We'll. I'm dashed" said Archie,
staggered. But you remember about
giving me a bit of sausage outside
St Mihiel.'
NO 1 didn't I'm taking your
;t Ill
be Turing me into some den to rob
nee of my straw hat. / don't know
you from Adam But l like your
conversation-espec pecially the part
about oating-and I'm taking a
chance
Archie was concerned.
Listen, old bean. Make an effort. :.
You must remember that sausage epi-
sode. 1t was just outside St. Mihiel,
about in the evening. Your little
lot We're lying next to my little lot.
What ho?' and you said. 'Hullo" and
said: What ho?: What ho?' and
ycu said. Have a bit of sausage?'
and l said: What ho: What no?
What hoc''
The dialogue seems to have been
darned sparkling, but I don't re-
member it. 1t must have been after
L
seem quite to have caught up with
myself since I got hit
oh, That's how you got that
SCARF
NO. got that jumping through
a. plate-glass window in London on
Ar1nistice night"
What on earth did you do that
for?"
"oh, 1 don't know. 1t seemed a
good idea at the time
But if you can remember a thing
like that. why can't YOU remember
your name?"
II remember everything that hap
pened after ] came out of the hos
pital. It's the part before that's
gone"
Archie patted him on the shoulder.
Il know just what you want. You
need a bit of quiet and repose, to
think things over and so forth. You
mustn't so sleeping on park benches.
Won't do at all. Not a bit like it.
You must shift to the Cosmopolis.
1t isn't half a bad spot, the old
Cosmop."
rs the Cosmopolis giving free
board and lodging these daysT'
Father. Take it from me-Ive
had some. That'll be all right. My
father-in-law's frightfully keen on
me. Refuses me nothing. Well, this
is the spot. Wen start by ticking
up the old boys suite and looking
over his me-downs. I know
the waiter on his floor. He'll let us
in with his pass key
x !; = x
A ND SO it came about that Mr..
"A Daniel Brewster, returning to his
suite in the middle of lunch in order
to find a paper dealing with the sub
ject he was discussing with his