The Washington times., 1931-06-05

"A OrOdQ, SLOW SL11lG ulONCu
across the sallow features of
Rarick, seeming to widen them,
his lips lifted, revealing seldom
revealed white oblongS of teeth,
then drew back as slowly as
portieres.
MY hours. young man, for
comforting advice for the fur
therance of our native and ESQ
teric drama are for the present
overcrowded, but if you will
consult with my Mr.. Hellman,
he will arrange an appoint
ment."
Darling" said Jennifer, as
they turned away, Il wish to
commemorate this occasion by
sliding down seventy-nine sto-
ries and rushing to the first
corner orangeadery for an ade
or a ginfizZ. You may not
realize it, but you succeeded in
eliciting a smile and a witt
cism from my father"
Just Idle Chatter
I'm for him"
I'm of him."
THAT makes me vicariously
for you,"
"Viciously, did you say?"
And so on and SO on and so
on, as, stepping into the ele-
vator they began descent
through the stories of steel
that were rising to the tunes
of the jingling of the dimes.
BY an unexplainable over
sight that off-hand would
seem almost impossible. Ra-
rick, what with Hellman rush
ing off with the newspaper
men ard the guests paying
their departing platitudes, was
left on the roof alone after
the elevator man had made his
last descent and apparently
gone from the building.
There were no bells. It
meant a walk down thousands
of stairs that were little more
than ladders. For an hour
now, the sun had been in be-
hind banking clouds, the wind
stiffening. Meanwhile Rarick
waited, hoping for a return of
some of the walters to clear
away the few remaining camp
chairs, or for a watchman on
his rounds.
With the instinct of man to
ponder from high places, on
a parapet and his cheeks
crushed between his palms.
Last Guest Gone
What he was actually con-
templatlng at the moment, as
he stood there in the midst of
space, in the midst of Sat
urday afternoon-hiS last guest
gone, Jenny with her narrow
youth, Jennifer with her heckled
and heckling companion-was,
that here he stood with miles
of steps to walk down and no
place in particular to go after
he had walked them.
One Of these hiatuses which,
because they occur so seldom in
the map of a busy mans af-
fairs, flabbergaSt.
Well, here goes!
It was almost dusk when he
reached the street, after the
fifty and more flights of stairs,
mortar streaks along his coat,
the dizzying descent and the
Saturday afternoon bedlam of
shoppers, ferryboat commuters,
trucksters, newSboyS, clerks,
Stenographers, brokers, causing
the scene to seem to sway by
the time he reached sidewalk
level.
Contemplating them for at
least two hours, Rarick finally
dove down into the subway, and
home, to write throughout the
evening at the document that
was slowly becoming his will.
y
The third day that Jenny's
meals, every nine of them, had
consistently disagreed, she
rather angrily decided to see a
specialist.
Jenny could and did truth
fully boast that she had never
spent a day in bed. Small all
ments, such as the Sciatic
twinge that had come of late,
yes. But in the main she was
entitled to regard herself as a
creature well thewed.
Ramon was growing tired,
The symptoms were out in him.
The guarded manner. The weary
voice, The evading appoint.
menN The placating manner.
The rowing eye. Slowly, surely,