home to die!" gas

of the lounging room. He had dropped his newspaper and w

the edge of a chair an

here before the jeweler's store after Lucy Dalles had left him, tingling blissfully in every vein, the mundane thought that Tweet was probably awaiti

mbus!" he added in an undertone. He blinked his eyes thre

ot up, wiped his twisted nose with his handkerc

with a chuckle, "how mu

us

ow poor ar

oor ar

ooker & Co. pa

at I want to with my

nuate that you're not capable o' judiciously handlin' the

-eight dollars, and I've go

and

m di

n ro

heeled

which came and went in his slate-blue eyes. Without another word Tweet left

y sank to the edge of his chair.

they al

Tweet lowered it and presented a countenan

part o' true friendship calls for me to use the surgeon's knife

en curbed a threatening outburst. "I know they're not the best

it gives you the feel, it's the goods. When you get next a little it'll cost you more money to get that feel outa clothes. After all, now, when that tin-roof look wears off of 'em you won't appear so whittle

ndow. "Did you see the

he block to get out

r. Tweet. I felt so kinda-well, kinda c

to do with that? And

', I su

rom the restaur

es

e a good lawyer, w

't kno

the place where there's a frowsy-topped waitress that's got you goin'. Well, le's foget it. Do we go to so

in the city, and I think I oughta-- Really, I wanta g

idn't inte

all. I want to g

in' to win her till you get next to yourself. Now, Lucy's a pretty popular dame with the fellas about the restaurant. I've seen her joy-ridin' with fellas I know are there with the coin, and savvy more in a minute than you ever knew. Now, wait a mi

to make your fortune, but that you're comin' back to see her. Put emphasis on who you're com

ng out the window. In the midst

riendship that promised him a start, in order to gain love back m

on with his hints of past affluence. But he liked him instinctively, which, after all, is more human and satisfactory than liking a person after analyzing him an

opped his paper.

o-mor

r life! Thi

about noon. You wait here a little, while I go down

d steadily. "Got a date wit

he said she wanted to see me when she went of

"go ahead. Got a date with her, eh? I thought maybe you'd just go down

hurrie

he restaurant. Was he to suffer such pangs o

face to face with her. She had been looking in the jeweler's win

ute late," she scolded, pointi

'am-I wa

so serious. A mi

'am-not

aimed them

ked a little petulantly, and turned h

g signs which read "For Hire-Four Dollars an Hour." It was worth it, if only to break this humiliating

tly. "But I gotta dress. We'll get a

m engaged a car by the hour, and they entered. She dire

ung the door open for his passengers. Into a dark, musty

invited; "and ex

, and Hiram heard the tatto

th specimens of quartz, and four cloth-covered cushion rockers. With rattlesnake fairness

g, while outside the hired car purred

stairs. Lucy entered, dressed in silk and furs and wearing a large picture hat. The savin

d miserably as he clumsil

Park, Mr. Hoo

ard, touched his cap,

eping this question had been overriding Hi

r as to invite you home with me if I didn't

all, ma'am. But when you said

front of the jewelry shop for over a quart

, ma

iend come out of the restau

? No, ma'am

t? Heavens above! Say, he's a funny guy. Well, he'd been in talking about you. He said you we

y stared

er, and that you had just come from

e she was silen

sort of butting in

waited

d mine are getting tangled. You're crossing my pat

that way?' I sa

eading my business partner fr

and talk sense, if you'

old,' he said; and that you were keeping the thing back by-by-by wanting to hang around Frisco. He said you two

d he said for me to give you the cold shoul-well, what he me

Two things: First, I promised to tell you about the moving picture you helped me with this morning. Then the other thing is Mendocino." She leaned forward