Evening star., 1933-01-20


Lord Mike, there amt a night
at the place some one don't want to
kiss her and sometimes she don't want
to Kiss and, listen, she went kiss. One
night it Just got me. There was real
MICS fellow there from st. Louis; Mr..
Blatz; an made her kiss him. Maybe
he was a little tight, but, you know, Mike,
don't we all get tight off an on. Any
way, like I was tellin' you, she wouldn't
kiss him an I made her, and what dc
yoU think? After while Annie she got
at ffle, she's in the cloak room, and she
says, Come mere and came and there
was Carroll, in a corner of the cloak
room, kinda hidin' and cryin' like she
was so. not maxim any noise, unner-
stand, just cryin', and she couldn't tell
me. what allied her, but you know,
bet.it was kissing Louis Blatz,"
quite possibly" said Michael slowly;
he had been studying his hands because
he didn't want Jersey to see what was
in his eyes; now he raised his eyes and
drew deep breath.
He was in for it, he knew; he was
going to do what he could for the child
and not because of Malcolm or because
there was in Michael an instinct to
sentimentaIity. for there was not; but
because there was something about
Carroll that took hold of him. His
belief in her fineness had been strength
ened by Jerseys saga OF Mr.. Louis
Blatz
Jersey" he said, you want Carroll
to be lady, don't you?"
Again jersey sat erect. well, who's
askin' me that?" she questioned bel
ligerently. Amt she wearin' silk
against her little. thin back? Amt her
clothes showin' that? Say, look here,
He broke in "She won't have a
chance he said, loudly, If you take
her.to that place to make her kiss every
good spender who happens in. That
place Is not the place for child, Jer-
sey.e' He began to speak gently, per-
suasively.
"Aw, Mike" she broke in now, "she
likes it fine!"
Doubtless, but Jersey, it isn't the
start. You want her to have every
thing my sister Joyce had. don't you?"
why. Mike, sure I dol" said Jersey,
unhappily; she leaned forward to lay a
ain,t thing I amt, I'm not doin' for
that lii kid. Listen, Mike"
Yes, Jersey"
you know can talk kind of genteel
when I wsnta and do it half hour
every day anyway to her-it's hell Of
a Srain-and then I tell her she has
to talk like that ALA the time or I'll
crack her over the bean. And, say,
that's the hardest job have, for down
at the place talk low because it makes
the' boys that come in feel like they'd
got outa their coats and was just at
home, and it makes 'em feel better than
am, and that pays, lemme tell yuh!"
Il believe it," Michael accorded with
an sadmiring grin; Jerseys investment
in making the low-class feel smugly
superior would pay large dividend. It
was like her, who had conquered much
and in the face of every obstacle.
i want all the good in the world fer
my. kid" Jersey continued. and this
gave Michael an excellent opening.
Il know you do, jersey" said Mi
chael, gently. "and the place for her is
a good school"
'What kinda school?" Jersey asked.
belligerently. She withdrew her hand
from Michael's knee.
Michael hesitated for few long Sec
onds and then he spoke. The sort of
school," he said, that I can get her
into and you can't"
Il was brutal and he hated saying it,
but he knew what he could do and Jer-
sey: could not do would be the thing
jersey would want to do for her child.