Evening star., 1925-03-11
Observation-Disclosures
ofJdne Smith .',' B, ,1rs.en RI, ~, rsn.os.s
BY PATRICIA WENTWORTH
1928, By Small. Maynard = o.. }

much would by you up, and then
there would be leavings
What are you driving at, Molloy?"
said Ember.
Molloys fiorid color deepened He
narrowed his lids and looked through
them at Ember.
Maybe | was thinking" he said,
that there's proverb we might take
note Of
Well"
It's just a proverb." said Mr.. Mol
10y It's been in my mind since
had the handling OF the money-'A
bird in the hand is worth two In the
BUSH"
Ember's eyes lost their dull film
They frightened until Mr.. Molloy was
unable to sustain their glance. He
shifted his gaze, and Ember said
very quietly:
Are you thinking of selling u.s."
Molloy broke into an oath.
And that's a thing no one shall
say OF me-" he said. with a violence
that sent his voice echoing along
through the open arches.
Then, may l ask you what you
meant?"
why. just this" MoIloy dropped
to an ingratiating tone. There's the
money safe--certain-in our hands
now. What's the need of all this?"
He came forward with two or three
great strides, picked up the list from
where he had thrown it. and beat
with it upon his open hand.
All this, he repeated: this and
what it stands for. You may say
there's no risk, but there's a big risk
It's gamble, and what's the need to
be gambling when We've got the
money safe?"
I'm plain English. you want to back
out at the last moment"
Il do not, and L defy you to say
that l do"
Then. what's come to you?"
Here's the thing that's come 10 me.
down the list. See there, and thatll
tell We what has come to me-"
He thrust the list in front OF Ember
It's Galway you've got set down
there"
Well and what of it?" said Ember.
What of ito" said Mr.. MoIloy. 'I
was born in Galway, and the only
sister. I ever had is married there.
Four sons she has, decent young men
by all the accounts I've had of them
If / haven't been in Galway for 80
years, that's not to say that I've no
feeling for my own flesh and blood.
Why, the first girl 1 ever courted
lived out Barna way. Many's the time
I've met her in the dusk on the sea-
shore and she half crying for fear of
what her father would do. Katie
Blake was her name. They married
her to old Timmy Dolan before I'd
been six months out of the country.
A hstful of gold he had, and a hard
fist 1t was. ] heard tell he beat her
poor Katie. But ye see now, Ember.
q
place and your first love-ye can't
get quit of them. Now. 1 hadn't been
a month in Chicago before was
counting another girl, but to save my
neck couldn't tell ye what her name
was, and ye may blow Chicago to
hell tomorrow and I'll not say
word"
But not Galway" Mr.. Ember's
tone was very dry indeed.
You've said 1t. Not Galway. I'll
not stand for it,"
Ember laughed. 1t was laugh
without merriment, cool sarcastic. !
Molloy, the man of sentiment" h 2
said. Now, doesn't 1t strike you that
It's just little late in the day for
this display of feeling? May 1 ask
why you never raised the interesting
subject of your birthplace before?"
rs it sentiment that you're sar-
castle about?" said Molloy "If IT is.
I'd have you remember that I've never
let 1t interfere with business yet, and
wouldn't now. Many's the time I've
put my feelings on one side when I
was up against a business PROPOSE
ton. But 1 tell you right here that
when I see my way to good money
and to keeping what / call my senti-
ment, too, 1t looks pretty good to me.
and / say to myself what 1 say to
you, What's the sense of going look
ing for trouble?'" I"
Ember laughed again.
II will translate" he said. From
the sale of the government formula
you see your way to deriving a COM
potency. You become, in a mild way,
a capitalist. Luxuries before un-
dreamed of are within your grasp
sentiment. childhood's mem
ories. the finer feelings, in fact. AS
a poor man you could not dream of
affording them, though | dare say
you'd have enjoyed them well enough.
Is 1t a correct translation?
(Continued in TornorroW's StArl