The producers news., 1927-02-25

then 1 feel little better because my
landlady is between US and l think
maybe if there should trouble start
she might shove her hand up or rat
tie her and spoil her aim.
But have made a bum guess from
seeing too many movies guess for
it amt anything like that. All of a
sudden the lady lets her muff drops
and puts her two hands up to her
face white kid gloves and all and
busts into tears! And there she
stands shaking and sobbing and says
to herself, "Oh the shame of it, the
shame of it,"
So then Of course l remember that
she is supposed to be a sick woman
and what she is going through and |
am sorry and says, Look here Mrs.
EdgertOn you have got this all wrong
things between you husband and me
aint at all what you think" l says.
So then she flares all hot again
and drops her hands. "Do you mean
to say you have not been going to
dinners with my husband all the
time ?"
'It would be very silly of me to
deny that" l says, seeing that your
detective has been sitting at the next
table to us most of the times but
what is the harm of dinners 2"
'And him with a wife at home!"
she says with the tears running down
her cheeks again. "And the dinner
on the table getting .cold!"
"Well that is too bad," | says, cit
was a shame to waste so many din
ners but l didn't know about that,
Mrs. Edgerton," l says. GA gentle
man asked me to dinner and being
hungry why shouldn't l go?"
Well see she is human after all
and | am still more sorry so l goes
on real friendly like. 81 guess Mrs.
Edgerton you have not knowed many
working girls in your life" l says,
"and you amt realized how it feels
when a gentleman offers you a din
ner free of charge. They pay me
eighteen-fifty a week at the Elite
Beauty Parlors and l have got to live
on that till the next Saturday night
and if l have not got anything left
on Friday night l do not have any
dinner" l says. "Mrs. Budd here
will tell you that l have to give hel
six dollars week that is what a gir
has to pay to keep the rain off hel
in Washington D. G. And if l spenC
a dollar day for my food then
have five dollars and a half a weei
to dress myself like my profession
requires and all the luxuries that yol
see in this room," l says kind of sar
CASTLE" and for tooth-paste and wha
laundry l can't do in the bath-tul
downstairs without Mrs. Budd finding
it out and for music and books ant
art l says, "and for doctors bill i
1 should" I am just about to say
eff l should take up the notion tina
| have got the angina pectoris of tn
toe" but realize that would be mas
ty so l end kind of meeklike, eff
should be sick"
She is staring and has got a kin
of agonized curiosity in her face lik
she would like to know what sort G
terrible animal l am. The tears
still there so l says, "What is it yo
believe, Mrs. Edgerton? Do yo
think have been paying the woman
price for my dinners ?" 1 says. eve
it has been winter time and cold out
side and where do you think l coul
of took him to? Would l bring hil
, to this room ?" l says. eff you thin
z that just you ask Mrs. Budd here an
: she will show you down the stair
quick" I says. And of course Mr.
Budd gives a snort and l says, ed
you run that sort of a house Mr.
Budd ?" And she says, "Not that
: know of"
So there is little pause and tn
l lady still weeping silent so l goe
: on, "Has that dick been telling yo
lies so as to keep his job lady? If h
i has told you the truth it is this thu
t l have ct maybe a dozen dinners {
n your husbands expense and 1 hav
Y walked little ways on the stree
t with him and sat once talking in g
g art-gallery and that is all. l have NJ
: even been into a taXi-cab with hi
e and he left his own car at home II
e his wife or that is what he told n
y and if it amt true it is not my faul
e And if it is the cost of the Dime,
) that worries you it would of bee
r easier to of saved all the money W
d must of paid to that there dick
d says. "It was mostly in cheap plac
It that we ct because he was scared !
d would be saw"
"And if you are so innocent wi
e do you have to hide ?" she cries.