The Kevin review., 1926-09-23

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The ice was heavy, the work hard, Jasper
inexpert. Throughout the warm spring
days he struggled with huge blocks OF
ICE; climbing the never ending stairways
OI apartment houses, struggling half heart
ealy up and down the terraces of South
highland homes, and he knew that by
figld economy he could save about ten dol
lars a week. In ten weeks then-the Tux
euo-the freedom of divorce and the ele-
ganee of peacock!
Meanwhile Pistach Carter found it ne
eeSsary to consult with Jonquil on pro-
IesSlonal matters. Their friendship pro-
gressed rapidly to intimacy. Jonquil sug-
gested that he call upon her, and he Gag
erly accepted the suggestion.
/ During the afternoon he was in a fer
ment He entertained a grave suspicion
that his heart had been pierced by a
particularly virulent dart from CUpid's
DOW, and his thoughts of matrimony were
linked up somehow with the vivid jon
gull He desired to impress her-and
therefore he fell prey to temptation. That
night he arrayed himself in the dinner gar
ments of his lady's husband.
There was small doubt that the clothes
became him even better than they would
nave besuited Jasper. Pistach had an air
la regal manner-a calm grace, whereas
Jasper was strutty. And Pistach wore
| spectacles.
Jonqul was amazed at his magnifieence.
1t never occurred to her to suspect the
clothes. All she knew was that a hand
some professional man thought well enough
/ OF her to dress to the ultimate for an ev-
ening at her house.
She gazed upon Pistach with kind and
speculative eyes She was too young a
woman not to welcome the thought of a
second matrimonial adventure, and if the
1rst barque had not entirely been wrecked,
certainly 1t was nearing the shoals, and
no foresighted woman could utterly bind
herself to scintilIant opportunity.
They got along famously. Pistach told
her much about himself and she confess
n i'm hnF Wnf f1nfn fod Gha
was home body, she claimed, but would
be everlastingly dawg goned If she'd ever
support man again. He agreed with her
that supporting was not a woman's ap-
pointed task, and mentioning himself as a
gentlemen who believed it the wife's bound
en- duty to permit q husband to provide
for her.. Before the evening ended she
was calling him "pistachu and. he nd
dressed her as "Jonquil," and he agreed
to call again two nights later. He had
been engaged to deliver an address the
following night at the weekly meeting of
the Sons and Daughters of | VIII Arise.
In forty -eiSAt hours he reappeared, and
once again he was magniloquent in Jas |
per's dinner clothes. But the shirt and !
color were freshly laundered and fairly I
shrieked their purity. Theeafter his dress
fell into the habit of bringing flowers and
candy and once book, which she accepted /
rather doubtfully.
Certainly no dusky damseI in Birming-
perbly. Here were all the social trim
mings of the best movies The night that
Jonquil greeted him in an evening gown
was red letter one for both; it stamped
them once and for all as considerably bet
ter than the ordinary herd for whom sack
suits and street dresses were adequate.
Occasionally they touched upon the sub
ject of Jasper and their opinions were
amazingly unanimous.
How come you ever to make maiage
with that wuthless, good TO -nothin' hunk
Of secon'- hand tripe, Jonquil?"
Il dunno, Pistach. Rechon | was in
narryin' humor an he just happened to
The man sighed. "Ain't figgerin' on
sittin' in ma'yin humor again right
saw, Pistach I"
Else seiOus."
"You talks so sugary" She gazed
through. the window. wonder where at
Pistach's face darkened. "Whaffo' you all
he time is mentionin' yo' husban'f"
"Just wonderin'."
"Wonderin' which?"
"How come him to ever love anything
o much he would tote ice all day to git
{. Honest, Pistach that cullud man is
he uselessest pusson | has ever met up
With. He never does nothin' an he does
all the time. l shOly is gwine be glad
yhen / is rid of him."
"YOu mean that, Jonquil7"
II don't mean nothin' else"
W nat JVd aims " uO OHCC yOa 10 a
ingle lady again?" n
She smiled demurely "Hush yo' mouf,
istach. II
~Rechon you is kinder sore on ma'isge, t
int your !.
"YeR-with Jasper" !
81 mean with somebody else"
Name which?" e
Name" the young lawyer leaned for n
ard earnestly, so earnestly that his shirt
osom creaked protestingly-"name' Pts =,
Ich Carter" Il
'ossed to her side h
"Sugarfoot-"
Don't call me that, Pistach." "
"Why not?" tt
Jasper used to-" h
90! Lii honeysuckle-T =
"Thas better" IL
LES an you git mated" il
"You mean it, PistachY" il
"But-I amt divorced away fun Jas II
n yet"
"You soon is gwine to be-" Lis
"How bout that other fifty dollars Z" ~
else willin' to give you that divorce TO - -
weddin' present Jonquil." "
"Ain't you the thOughtfullest man. An I'll
sper's clothes2"
"He gifts them," sizzled the attorney,
Vhen he pays me those hunded dollars.
lat'n leave him paying the whole fifty
liars which the divorce is gwine cost"
"Mmm! An you en- git the divorce any
net"
Uh huh. All the testimony has done
en- took an | was jist waitin to git
e decree signed until / gotten my fee"
She snuggled her hand In his. you git
an right away us becomes engaged.
Pistach trod upon air when he left her
use and the following day he went
rough the formality of securing the -
iges signature to the decree of divorce. :
len he called upon Jonquil presented
r with a white gold engagement wiring,
d set their marriage date for the sixty
st day thereafter; the wedding being 4
ohibited until after sixty days had Il
psed. III
Thanks to the keenly Observant eyes ana
uble action tongue of Sis Callle FIuk-
!, news of the engagement became Druit-
around Darktown in short order and 1t i
ne to the ears Of Jasper via Ella Dun
!, who was cook in a fashionable Noun
n terrace home. Jasper was at the Il
ment engaged in fitting hundred
ind block of ice into seventy live
ind icebOx Immediately he secured
hours leave Of absence; boarded q
keview street car, and twenty minutes
er burst into the office of Pistach Car
/ heah you is engaged to my wife"
You amt got no wife"
mean the wife Iuseter have"
If / is" snapped the lawyer, "tha's
business an hern.
WE'LL Graves my Tuxedo"
fba fad dollars Won