Evening star., 1933-11-01
|RARCAN IN L0vEX<t1
by JANE DIXON xESsG4

ular cry baby. am I not?" She rified
her purse. Here, dear. take this to
mother. 1t will help-with Herman. u
She handed Tommy $40 bill.
Tommy hesitated. Are you sure you
can srare it? I'll take care OF Herman
if he gets too fresh.
Take it, Tommy" Sue tucked the
bill into pocket Of the boys coat.
Gould we drop Tommy at the station.
Jeff?"
Easily" jeff gave the orders. In
few minutes the car rolled to a stop.
A quick embrace from Sue, and Tommy
was on the curb.
Here, old man." jeff leaned out to
hand the boy an envelope. You'll
and my Office numbers in there. Hang
onto them. I'm anxious to show you
that trophy room"
| Sue peered through the windows un-
til the car turned ana the thin young
figure on the curb was blocked from
sight. Not until he was seated in the
train did Tommy open the envelope,
prepared to memorize the contents in
case he should lose the numbers He
extracted slip of paper opened it. He
was holding hundred-dollar bill. He
was SO frightened he dropped the bill
in his lap. Sues new husband must
have put it in by mistake.
No, here it was. scribbled on the slip
OF paper along with the numbers:
Use this bill. Tom. for anything you
might want. It's from Sue. Shed have
given it to you herself, but she was
afraid you wouldn't take it. Thanks for
meeting us. JEFF"
80 that's what he was doing while
Sue was crying on my shoulder" Tom
my unused. And I thought he was
working crossword puzzles. He's a
regular guy, JEFF is. Here's one pot of
money Herman won't get his hands on
Gosh. where can fellow hide all this
money!"
The Randall town house on upper
Fifth avenue is tall imposing. Its gen.
eral character is that of a gray-white
austerity To passersby it seems to lift
its eyebrows and raise a lorgnette.
| On the occasion of the return of JET
| frey Randall from Europe. with what
was being bruited about even at this
early hour as his surprise BRIDE" the
austerity of the gray-white pile was
somewhat mellowed by the gleam of
lights through many windows, though
it was not yet dark. One caught the
occasional spark of prismatic fire from
crystal chandelier, discreetly veiled
behind drawn hangings. There was a
hurried coming and going through the
trade entrance. There was hustle
and hustle backstairs. where servants
stopped to exchange confidence, to gig
gle. to surmise.
I Already the news had gone around
that Mr.. Jeffrey has landed with his
wife and he's bringing her home
The news called for the settlement of
various obligations For example, the
| cook had bet the pantry boy 50 that
/ Mr.. Jeffrey would arrive in his custom
airy state of bachelorhood. The pantry
boy had bet the cooks assistant a bot
tie of Scotch they'd be serving Mrs.
Jeffrey Randall by this time tomorrow
/ The pantry boy was in process of re-
minding his debtor that he was collect
ing or purposed to collect, and that
right soon
An it's myself don't give the snap
O. my finger what the new missus is
like SO long she puts that Miss Ran
dali in her place" the upstairs maid
confded to the housekeeper. "A foine
one she is to be sure. always snoopin'
none O. her business. like she owned the
place when every one knows it's Mr.
Jeffrey's"
ITS her troubles she'll be havin', the
poor thing, I mean Mr. Jeffrey'S wife"
the housekeeper predicted. THE Ran
dali ones got her nails all fresh pol
ished and sharpened and ready to
scratch"
Flowers. flowers an more flowers" :"