The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-05-04
.what you getting all heated up

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Ing me up"
'It wasn't her fault. l grabbed
her and took her of for a walk"
"YehI But yo1 didn't know she
had q date with me-" F4.a.
didn't IL" ..,.. 81
Vernon looked up quickly, his at
tention arrested by the sheer.
did yon?" s.... =. ..a& =.
@Sure. She told me-"
"You-you're just saying that to
let Ivy down easy" .e.... ......"
"I'm saying it because it's true.
Who do you think you are, Fat Boy.
to say when a girl shall 60 with me
and when she shan't?' ..... y
| Il know. But, Pat! Ivy and
| have been running around togeth-
er, and we had date"
| 'Oh! to thunder with your dates.
| If your girl prefers to walk with
| me, she can do it."
Pats manner puzzled Vernon. He
was accustomed to caustic comment
from his older friend. but there was
an unpleasant, combative ring In
Thayer's voice which reused re-
sentiment even in the breast of the
placid stout boy. He knew nothing
of the recent scene with Tony Pey-
ton, he did not know that Pat
Thayer was In an ugly mood; but
he did know that while he would
stand very great deal from the
taller mamie would not tolerate
the stealing OF his girl
He turned on her.
"Are you coming with me, now,
Ivy?"
She tossed her head.
Certainly not You've acted silly,
| and"
"I'll say he hasl" interjected
Thayer! "And how u
| Vernon's face flushed.
"You keep out of this, Pat"
"Who says I must?"
II do"
well. III be dog-goned. You dol
An0 VINO are your!
In all their two years of intimacy.
Thayer had never seen Max Vernon
reused to anger. He was openly
contemptuous of the younger man I;
did not even credit him with suf.
ficient strength of character to be-
come really angry. But he did not
know that herein he was striking
Vernon in his most vulnerable spot.
| Vernon had cut q great swath at
Marland with his lavish wardrobe.
his big. high-powered car. his bril-
liant parties and his free spending.
But thee were few who knew that
Max had been more worried recent
~ than he cared to admit even to
| himself. His money was gone. or
nearly gone. Debt had piled up on
him. He was an orphan. and the
inheritance which had enabled him
to spend so lavishly and which
to him-had seemed inexhaustible.
was now nearly dissipated.
Loyalty. Max had never permit
ted himself to think where a great
deal of the money had journeyed
| It was queer. though. that in two
years of playing cards with Pat
Thayer in the privacy Of PATS room
there had been a steady flow of
cash from Vernon to the older man.
Like a good sport. Max put ii all
down to hard luck. That he had
been scientifically and systematicaI
~ bled by college crook never oc
CURED to him or certainly II
never had occurred until this mo
ment when Thayer's manner he
trayed to- him side of the mans
character which ordinarily Vernon
would have been too generous TO
discover.
AS matter of fact. Pat Thayer
had lost interest in Vernon. Pat
had been Interested so long as Max
possessed money. but Thayer knew
that he was broke. Now that there
was no more golden food to be had
| he felt that the sooner he rid him.
self of verncn's friendship. the
quicker he'd he happy
And so he sneered at Max before
the girl with whom Max fancied
himself In love. He tainted him
and through sheer perversity.
stole his girl.
Max was livid. For the first time
In his life be was racked with
fierce. white anger
shes my girl" choked Max.
.and you know it"
Little bows don't nave girls"
grinned Thayer. You're just a
child. With less brains than most
I'm sick and tired OF you and
| won't stand any more Of this talk
about who ! shall walk with and
when. Get that?"
Careful. Pat"
AOf what?"
PLENTY" vernon's roly-poly fig
ure was trembling. Il don't want
to have trouble with you"
.'I'll say you don't. If you were
half man you'd get out when an
other guy copied your girl"
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