Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-28

~ ATRICIA followed the porter to
- the lift. and Hugo. producing a
handkerchief. dabbed it lightly
L over his forehead.
Dirty weather, shipmate!
said Hugo. "A very deep depression
of the coast of Iceland. laddle
He placed restraining hand on
Johns arm. as the latter made a move
ment to follow the Snow Queen.
mo good, john" he said gravely.
'No good, old man, not the slightest.
Don't waste your time trying to ex-
plain tonight. He'll hath no fury ike
woman scorned, and not many like
girl who's just had to give her name
and address in raided night cluo 10
A plain clothes cop who asked her TO
repeat it twice and then didn't seem 10
believe her"
But I want to tell her why. ="
"Never tell them why. It's no use.
Let us talk of pleasanter things. John
have brought off the coup OF lie
time. Not that it was my idea. 1t was
Ronnis Fish who suggested 1t. Iheres
a fellow with brain, John. There's
lad who busts the seams OF any nat
that isn't number eight.
What are you talking about?"
I'm talking about this amazingly in
telligent idea of old Ronnies. It's alb
solutely necessary that, by some means,
Uncle Lester shall be persuaded to
cough up 500 quid OF my capital. to
enable me to 60 into venture second
in solidity only to the mint. The one
person who can talk him into 1t Is
Ronnie. SO Ronnie's coming to Ruose.
"Oh?" said John. unintereSted.
"And to prevent Uncle Lester making
q fuss about this. I've invited old man
Molloy and daughter to come and visit
us as we'll That was RonnleS pig
idea. Thos is rolling in money. and
once Uncle Lester learns that he won't
kick about Ronnie being there. He
loves having rich men around. He likes
to muZZle them"
DO YOU mean" cried John. that
that girl is coming to stay at Rudge?"
He was appalled,. Limpidly clear
though his conscience was ne was able
to see that his rather spectacular aSso-
citation with Miss Dolly Molloy had dis
pleased Pat. and the last thing he
wished for was to be placed in posi-
with the girl If she came to stay at
Rudge. Pat might think What
might not Pat think?
He became aware that Hugo was
speaking to him in quiet, brotherly
voice.
How did all that come out, John?"
"All WHAT"
ADOuC rat. LIZA SIZE tcll YOU Iild0 l
paved the way?"
She did! And look here ~
"All right, old man." said Hugo, rails
ing a deprecatory hand. That's abso-
lutely all right I don't want any
thanks. You'd have done the same for
me- Well, what has happened? Every
thing pretty satisfactory"
Satisfactory"
Don't tell me she turned you DOWN."
IF you really want TO know" she
did,
Hugo sighed.
Il feared as much. There was some
ing about her manner when was paw
ing the way that l didn't quite like.
Cold. Not responsive. A bit CLASSY
eyed. What an amazing thing it is"
said Hugo, tapping a philosophical vein,
that, in spite of all the ways there are
Of saying Yes girl on an occasion
like this nearly always say no. An
American statistician has estimated
that, emitting substitutes like All
right You bet,' o. X and nasal ex-
pressions like 'Nh-huh, the English
language provides nearly fifty different
methods Of replying in the Affirmative,
including yeah, yeth, yum, 20. yaw.
chess, chass, chuss, zip, yep, yop, yup,
stop itw cried John forcefully.
Hugo patted him affectionately on
the shoulder.