The Washington times., 1937-11-06

Yet, it goes on holding a perez
John Santcn dimly recognized
this fact that the whole So-callec
human race is obseSSed with love
the emotion, and it made him
angry. He didn't believe in love
"A guy" he often scornfully de
clared, who's got the love bug
might as we'll be showed down a
drain. He'll never be good for
anything until he gets over it or
dies"
HOMELY MAN
OF course, Johns physical make,
up and lack of the cultural advan.
tages, So-called may have been
responsible for the fact that love
never came to him. He was not
a beautiful man. He was about
feet 5 inches tall.
He had huge shoulders, SO full
of muscle that they made him
appear hunched, and arms that
reached about four inches below
his knees. His legs were bent, not
bowed. His head was huge and
with SO much more than its COM
plement of hair that he looked
quite bit like large ape.
His build did not make him
any asset to party whose motif
was pulchritude, but it did make
him one of the best riVeterS in
the world of construction.
If John Santch had only been
content to stay in one place there
is no doubt that in compare
lively short time he would have
owned his own steel construction
company or at least have been
superintendent in one of the
bigger ones.
But John had the itching foot.
He loved to roam. Give him a year
in city even as big one as New
York or San Francisco and he
got to pining for the next town.
Il didn't make any difference that
one town turned out to be as
much like the one he was in as
two peas. John had to travel.
1t was while calling for his time
in Portland, Ore, and announc-
ing his intention of hitting for
Newark, N. j., that he first heard
of Miriam Dawes. Mike Heflin
told him about her.
"You wouldn't know Miriam, "
he said, "but you knew her old
man. Jim Dawes. I think I heard
you say you worked with him once
in San Diego when you were a
punk"
"Sure I did" John said. "He
taught me lot of what I know
about riggin' and he was the first
man I ever held a rlvet for.
Why?"
ORPHAN GIRL
"Well, this Miriam is his daugh.
ter" Mike said. Mike bounced
off the ChrySler Building when
it was up to the forty-fifth story
and that made Miriam an orphan.
Her mother had died about two
years before.
when they got to looking
around in the bank, they found
out Jim had saved a little money
and this with his insurance was
enough to give her start in life
The kid was pretty good cook
so she opened up a board and
rooming house in Brooklyn.
"If you ever hit around that
section, why don't you look her
up? She puts out the best table
along the Atlantic, they tell me.
And they say her house IS kept as
clean as whistle. All the steel
workers stay there when they
can"
Sure I will" John promised.
But it was long time before he
made the East. About a year and
a half. He worked in Tucson and
Denver and Chi and Toledo in
that time and he never did make
Newark.
He got a job on some construc-
ton work in F1atbush and he
stopped in a place where the beds
weren't so hot and the food was
lousy. And one day he remem-
bered about Miriam Dawes and
he found her address and went
around to look her place over.
He didn't even see the place. All
he noticed about it was that it had
a brownStone front and the room
she showed him was spotless and
the linen clean. He didn't even
notice these last in detail All his
ewes told him was that they looked
nice.
The reason he didn't was Miriam
herself. She wasn't as big as a
15.vear-old girl. And she looked
a little wan and delicate and she
had a mass of red hair and big
blue eyes with the white skin
which goes with that kind of COM
bination. There was a dimple in
her chin. She was the most beau
tiful girl he remembered ever see
ing
FALLS IN LOVE
The thing that he was alwavs
sneering at and launching about
and hawline ont neoule for falling
into happened to him on first sight
Of her.
love BIT you'd never know it
In look at him or hear him. He
0lowe~ed and frowned so that he
looked moro like big ape than
ever And he prnwled.
""This is al, ~ioht. How much
is IT? o. K. I'll take it."