Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1936-03-25

ing you this for?"
''Go on"
"Well, the next chapters the
same old story. No money. No job
Tramping the street, looking for
4 work. Know what that's IikeT'
| II invented it." said the Duke.
swell, then, you know. Things
kept happening. The boy got sick,
and the people we rented the room
from threatened to put us out, and
guess Jack couldn't stand it. So
he went to see his mother-with0ut
telling me. He didn't tell her about
me, either.
THE old lady gave him a hun
dred bucks, and invited him down
here. I don't know what else hap
pened, because I was so mad he
didn't dare tell me. Proud? Well,
partly, but l guess the truth is /
was scared they'd separate US. Any
way, I made him send the money
back. 'What're we going to doT
he said. Let the kid starve?
can't get work. No. answered.
but maybe I can.'
"Well, there wasn't an Aborn
show in town. Or any other regu-
lar show that wanted me. So last
Monday I landed in a joint, called
The CocOanut Bar. One of those
places where you get a ten-course
dinner and a revue for two dol
lars, and both Of 'em rotten. Salad
without dressing. and you don't
care because the show girls are the
same way. Tough spot-The Co.
coanut Bar-but l wasn't choosey
last Monday"
$50, then, Jack was mad"
"Plenty. He'd been promised a
place as elevator man in Brook
lyn, but we couldn't wait for that.
You can be as straight in a caba-
ret as you can in a convent, if you
want to be. Oh. well-last night,
Mike Kelly came in. About eight
o'clock: With two strong-arm guys.
I knew him right away, because he
was five weeks at the hotel where
Jack worked in Palm Beach. And
he sat down, and sent for the boss
Luis MOranO. the boss is-and
they had stiff powwow. Morano
was sore all through when he came
back where the dressing rooms are.
And then we swung into number,
called Tickle Me- The girls go
up to the men. in that number, and.
paw 'em a good deal. And, in the
middle of this paving. Kelly jumps
up, and yells that I've tried to
pick his pocket. I'd really just
got to him, as another girl left,~but
he grabbed my arm, and shouted so
you could have heard him in Har-
lem. Luis ran over, and the bounc.
er brought COP. and a crowd gath
cred.
''KelIy'd been drinking a lot. You
can't get away with that!' he kept
yelling at Morano. T'll send this
girl to the island. and you to the
hot-spot! You watch mev
"T got nothing to do with it.
Luis answered. Il don't even know
this girl. She only came Monday.
Isn't that right. boys?'
'Well, the end of it was that
walked out with the COP. Td've
been in the lookup yet only there
was decent young fellow on the
desk at the station house. He let
met go on my promise to return If
I was wantedT there being no one
there to sign the complaint"
While she talked, the Duke was
thinking.
Astonishing things had happened.
and went on happening. Were as
tonishing things always happening,
everywhere? And did they come
about as quietly as this: as much |
as though they were the common
places Of daily routine?
you've walked into a pretty |
mess" the girl had said. But, after |
all it wasn't his mess. So far as he |
was concerned, the game was up.
He had made full and. complete |
confession to this girl. without a
moments hesitation. Firstly, be-
cause the game was up. anyway,
and, secondly, because it had
seemed the right moment for lay
ing cards on the table. He had
see her hand, and he
couldn't expect to do that without
showing his own. Without inspir-
ing her confidence.
Why did he want to inspire her
What was her story to
him? Why should he care what
to woman he had never
seen-in Bad Nauheim? But, damn
it, he had seen herI He had seen
into her mind and heart, which is
a good deal more than looking at a
face, or. a black satin dress. Her
life would be over with this. And
The old mans. 1.-THE doctor says1
any shock might prove serious. One
false step on your part, If he knewI
would end everything forever. And |
he would know. I'll as he is, he
still has his newspaper sent him,
and he still reads every word" +
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