The Kevin review., 1926-09-09

for it was the chiefs rule to have one o
us aboard, which meant me. %, damn al
J blast the job says Jack. The job1l n
| run away for a couple of hours Shell
/ be here in the morning., he says. 'Ye
I'll bet a sixpence she will be- | said t
him and days work for me an ALL
80 we went ashore Have you eve
been in Alexandria 2" Mr. Cassidy aske'
his audience. 'Well, it's great place, o.
used to be before the war. Plenty of way
OF spending your money, | can tell you
: And I'd been Gnder the impression tha
Jack Crosbie was spending every even
| ing absorbing keg or so of beer and top
| ping it off with a skoOner of scotch. Bu
although he was intoxicated when he came
aboard, he now solemnly assured me tha
! he had not been taking so very much
| Mani he says, giving me a clump on the
| back that nearly broke it. Man! I'm in
toxicated with lovei I've met the finest
either for that matter, and we're likely
to get spliced upon the slightest provo
cation
"WelI, this beat cock fighting for me
and l was all worked up to meet some
thing pretty wonderful. First of all, he was
intoxicated with love, but he hadn't lost
his liking for the other stuff. / remember
we went into little bar called the Red,
White and Blue in that long street, Sister
street we called it from its name, Rue des
Soeurs, running from the Arab police sta
ton up to the big square. 1t was soldiers
mostly as went in there, and the place was
lull VI JueDQ. ouL lUe girl budt oClftu 10
knew Jack, and you could see he had a
way with them.
sit was then l noticed for the first
time that Jack Crosbie, my esteemed su-
perior officer, was not so bad looking when
his face was washed and he had clean
collar on There was no doubt about 1t.
The girl who brought the beer was tlckled
9TH with his chatter, and you'd have
thought it was some great wit talking when
he told her: Jenny, Ill no kiss ye here,
with all those course soldier fellas lookin'
on She laughed till she cried. For a min
ute l thought it was Jenny he was In love
with, but when she was away and | asked
him, he sat up straight, pushed his hat
over one eye and whispers 'Mister-r Cas-
sidy, do ye suppose for moment Ia take
up with mere serving wench, dispenser
of malt and spurious liquors? ! tell you
my .inamorata is a lady, and what's more,
her old man has bags o. money II
g Has she any sisters?' asked him just
as joke.
.'s She has not he says sternly- DO you
think man o. my mentality I'D marry
girl with sisters? Where's your brains,
Mister CassidyY
"Wen of course. he was in the second
room and had drunk himself sober before
he came ashore. And now he was was
starting on beer. l tell you, JACK was
coughdrop.
insulted a color sergeant and had to
barge in and explain things to the boys ,
in Khaki, we started away again. u not
disloyal says Jack, wiping the biood from |
his mouth where the color segeant had hit |
him, but his majesty has some awful
coarse men in his army Of occupation.
Which was true; but when they nad to /
iefend themselves from a lump Of hard /
boiled beef like Jack they'd need to be
.oarse, can tell wou. That color sergeant
vas several colors under the eyes remem-
Der.
'''Where are you going?' | asked him,
or 7 wasn't so sure he hadn't forgot all /
bout his love affair, or had just invented
t for my benefit.
!" Where are we going'?' he says, stop
ling and looking at me in the CLASSY way l
snew was a sign of the third stage. we
ire goin' to call on the loveliest woman
n the land of Egypt, girl as good as
he is pretty and as pretty as she is rich
But mind you, mister, not one WORD OF tnis
IN board the Cassandra- ! am goin TO
lear out O. that miserable vesselv
You'll lose your ticket and your pay
I 1t.
what's a ticket or a pay day to me7 !