The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1914, Page 10

44aar—" “aan iS MS ‘ vite ys Ly Pe ——— - Se te eee | eth’s Aim Was Better Than His Ammunition TWANT RIGHT O'MARN fT’ TREAT Me TH WAY SHE DONG NISTIOON! Ve & en MING To WALK Pas HER HOUSE WITH On. QUICK, MR. PROV PLUNKETT AN’ TUBBS WiLL YOU MAKE HER JELLUS \ LOOK ar wHars COMING VP THe streer! vi arabes PAsees Uy Woy rive “a solgetrstl wth VELL, AY BANE. AY ADMIT at CANE. FIRED, AS GANG CRAIN PoKe DAS NEW BUT BY YimMInyY AY BANE S ae MAKE DAS NEW ACTOR. Wien testes Quit my dos! “Bi 299 ily the Dip —T he somehow with penalties, . beatin’ up the kid—see! Danny,” he| “I've got to mane “Now, watch me, Danny,” Bill) called. The child came up crying. A/ Danny,” be explained. B would say to the child. “Do you pipe | crowd had collected, and the officer| pered shark like me too atte ° wl dame in blu See that bag?! had to perforce keep his hands off the | spotted, yer see. I gotter get out Now, I'll get her over here and give| urchin, though his kneca smarted | this burg. There ain't no kind of ‘Written Expresaly for The Evening World it the — over.’ Fuad, “wren ~~ fee he longed to eure Bin And Billy never failed, When he|again, “Danny,” sald the culprit, By Ethel Watts Mumford had singled out hia victim he seemed| “you take care 0’ Kiddo—see? I'll be | a Rl chabeticetatin to exercise hypnotic power of at- | back—eo tone Cevrright. 1914, Uy Toe Free Publishing Oo. (The New York Breuing World.) traction. Invariably the unconscious! Danny picked up the dog and fol- | 4 I can dip the transportation—and contributor to his support would be | lowed, sobbing, as they led his friend | that's got to be quick.” iY THE DIP was as unpleas-|ceptacie for bills and change ex- pown tow ie to drop panies wey aery aay, with ene pup on inthares face fen, tears thered Sant @ sight as one would wish|Pertly “dipped.” ‘This canine alibi | into do’ in cup or to glance} a atring, Danny haunted the beat, re- | !0, | if with repugnance and loathing at his|sentfully eyeing the usurpers who "You ain't a-goin, really?’ he Dy,’ Mot to ace. His face wan bloated |"ad stood Billy in good stead when | Tiaentiy master. But. they came,| crowded Inte the toritarys ‘ked in terror. rene and purple, his|0M two occasions he had nearly been /and as they passed a feat of pres-| But it was three long, weary months | ,,Billy looked at bim and again that pe eyes small, fur-|Caught with the goods, for they had |tidigitation would be performed that! pofore his friend showed up. Ho wae | Tanee pain bit at bis hear tive and screened |Mot thought to examine the dog, and |for awiftnces, dexterity and Hentness| pale and thin, his clothes hung upon | naniyeive,2egidde, Danny.” he sald. of touch could have o by a dilapidated | Billy had been able to undergo &|Hormann, The loot disappeared in. fae puaapelossly. as Karments depend- | but his great sad eyes were fixed. on green shade|Search with inward equanimity and |gide of Kiddo's uniform as the beg-|‘Thore wan a long pink scat on the | Billy the Dip's bloated, drink-blotched whereby with a|0Utward protestations of mental] Kar apparently patted his dog and set ys 1s pink ‘scar on the | face, and his soul was in sackcloth. side of bis head. But as he clumped | ‘1 tali yer wi eald the thiet Fil , slight twist of his | @aeuish, the bedraygled Fl i down the park, headed for the ferry, | take youse over ter my duinp on the a head he could| He resided on Staten Island in a] © sient, & boy and a dog went wie hong Joy. | island,” he sald consolingly. “I've got- little room over a dilapidated saloon wit ey clung to him, clim and | ter get some of me rags, and I've got secure a view of gasp with fear fawned. To them this bid bi | a . hat and who| Be&F the slip. It gave him reason for| each oc: faco Would | Creature Was a hore, o dominod: wad | i bit of swag tucked ‘away, if me bog was behind him, | ‘f@velling on the ferries ut crowded | light with amazement and admira- | he had been In eclipse and was now | @ndiady didn’ Hh ee easlance’ | lite ity % was be ‘| hours when pickings were good, He|tn as in every instance the stunt] returned. Billy the Dip grinned, ye Precaution was made necessary ‘Ris secondary profession—that of t—his ostensible employ- 4. Boing the vending of pencils to i passers-by on thelr way r n Island ferries. Hix right been ayputated above the | Danny had never been on the water that had lapped and slapped at the edge of his world. The prospect of this | adventure in company with his friend made him forget for the moment his approaching bereavement. “ he whispered in awed d ‘Gee! I allers did want to go |acrost the oceln; | The trip was all that Danny pic- tured it. To be on this actually mov- ing boat, to see the water slip by, to watch the other ships avoid them | with almost human intelligence, was a wonderful experience. The Dip was pulled off successfully, It al crossed to New York usually about! ways seemed too ood to be true.| buck heart. 8.80, and returned when darkness fell, | But one evil day Billy overreached.| “joy, Danny! Hey, Kiddo!” he effectually shutting him off from ob-| He neglected to “wise himself” as] greeted, “Yer lookin’ fine. And how's servation and preventing accuracy |t® Whether he were observed from] tho old dump? D'ye suppose Red lin lifting the change, A moro de-| DeMnd, and Danny was too fas-| would set me up to the drinks for +3 hs ek cinated to prove a good “lookout.” | the sake of old times? Well, come | tight | wrated ee Belo it wont have | No wooner had Milly neatly let day. | along-—we'll ike over.” | 3 peen bard to find, even in the scrap- | leht into a fat black velvet shop Danny, snivelling with happiness and he was supported in its!ings of tho pot of Hell's Kitchen, |Ping bax when he was seized upon] goratched furiously in his nondescript by a massivo, old-fashioned | Conscience he had none, and his evil, ei a Buin perens 15 Pea eaten clothes, very much as if he were in that looked as if It might |Mppetites he satisfied ax ruthlessly | There had been no time for the usual | Hyrsuit of a flea, and presently “came Fad the property of historic | MM & beast. He never alloweu himseit | transfer, Hilly was caught, and] across” with a five dollar bill, two Ket drunk in business hours, but | caught good and plenty. He knew | ones, and a handful of small change. pBilver. It was clumsy and un-|oncs his workday at an end, or when | Mt, and turned pale, It would be his | °"hiiy stared. “Geet. Kid!" he exe large, but it attracted | he found himscif enriched by an un- | first conviction, but tt meant that us “have you taken to th piood by fae ran and shows: Bim by ite very antique cumtar: | wually lucky harvest, he sought the | & Beggar he could no longer hold | ilmed, “have you taken to the ble? | things and called places by their real y a abers | Huck room of hin favorite Longshore | down his Job, and with bis infirmity | ante tee yous” jnames, He had plenty of time, for be and its barness of wide Joon and guaéled the hard liquor | he was a marked man, “It's yourn Danny blubberea. “It | knew It unwise to attempt to pull off etraps. he loved Ul he was either raving or! | When the tragedy occurred Danny| was on the dawg When they nabbed #"Ything now that the bulls were on something stirred deep down in his ¥ ere stupetied. but as he was always well! was close at hand. His piercing ” to him. So he cursed, and told filthy | ty the Dip was an Ipstitution en vai ea with a on these occa- jshrieks rent the air. With hysterical yerVe don't say!" said Billy, stuMng /ttories, and filled Danny's little heart tery. He had appropriated | sions his indiscre cons, bowever noisy | fury he threw himself upon the ilut- ¥ » money into his pocket, “Well, to the brim with the joy of com- that'll help for i sect anyway panionship. They visited his unclean They adjourned to Red's and |reom over a dilapidated dive, and as- Danny had the unspeakable hap. | certained the happy fact that the uctive, Were Co Red MeGrat ing ¥ neph t with such villainous ferocity | und d the several spurious blind men | PIO vated by the | tie’s shing and beat and bit like. a and his | little mad animal, ft was not until Us attended to by | the captor had cuffed him half across Piderly widows with infants at! edy htt Dan the cobbled street that Danny let up| jiness of secing Billy acquire a landlady had not gotten next to the t who hav nrst held sway| In this the bee and that was only because his nose | Pigrious, complete and loathsome horde. ‘There was a starch box half dom were speedily driven | fiends. Danny, & sh ky, grave-e was biveding and bis head was spin-| jag; his wax the joy once more of full Ofassorted bills and allver, quite Se14,.and Fly und Kiddo, |cMHA of Meven, would Bit for hours | ning tending the painfut awakening the enougi@to take their present owner a ba held *}near Billy and Kiddo as they be “Here, here,” called Billy, hauling] following day and of administering | to new fields of activity, H companion, held Undis-}and whined for alins, and he never | of and’ kicking the officer with his| the lump of bead ice and the quart of| They had a wonderful day, ‘The , Kiddo was as uncouth | wearied of their society His ad S 1 leg, “atop battin'’ the kid! cool, steadying beer, Danny was in| Dip bought sandwiches and hot dogs rund quite as unwhited |tlon of bis friends’ dexterity knew no u're resisting arrest,” the officer|the seventh heaven. But he was|and beer and liverwurst for Kiddo, . Inside h'y dirty red bounds, though with some strange| yelled. dashed therefrom to the very depths | and the trio fed soclably together. persistency or morality he felt it was “I ain't." retorted Billy, “Don't I] of the opposite direction when Billy| A heavy sea fog began to drive in - sacket wes an excellent re- —not wrong exactly—but bound up know ‘tain’t no use; but you quit| took bim into bis confidence, through the narrows. 1t deepened and | * ; ac a EAR % NITE A a Ne re} ce a i | = Novelettes of the New York Streets == up. It streamed in wet . gathering in density. Bill was the firet to notice its unusual qualit: “Geel” he growled, “that' Listen tor the “abit We'll make a gosh awful sl 5 the Big Burg, Danny." bit de) ‘The harbor was, in truth, in pande- | monium—shrill shrieks of tugs, moo- ing of sirens, the hoarse roar of liners and tramps, steamers piping signals from the wharts and alips. It waa the worst fog in years. But Bill would not wait till mornin, He was bound to meke his bas i. ay, and under cover of the | easiest thing in the world to snake a would be the new suit, buy his ticket for any old where, and leave New York behind. No flattie or harness bull would be able to report bis whereabouts, or his being seen in the neighborhood of a railway station. It was a heaven-sent cinch, and he meant to use it. They embarked, and the ferry! crawled slowly out of the ali are her consort, whore arrival was twen- ty minutes delayed, bad bumped into her cradle. the water they realized the of the yellow, cottony vapor: enveloped everything. Foot by foo! Now that they were on at t the boat nosed her way, yelling her whereabouts raucously, bellowing her From all about came the dread. shrieking voices of ships at ult, ‘They heard the hail of a megaphoned voice bidding the: and demandi to the devi! what the blank, blank they meant by running them down, A fishing yaw! showed suddenly alongside. and held water as the jigger boom scraped along her side. A moment later and she was gone, swallowed up in the for. "Gee!" sald Billy the Dip, “thie te! | sure flerce. put one over on the bulls, tour this yere boat and get some| black and gaping. good candy, sure, nobody ain't goin’ to be thinkin’) Tho ferryboat ewerved I gotter half @ mind to about their wad.” ‘But Danny was frightened, He did not like the look of that yellow, olly water that showed only a strip hardly a foot wide on either aide, but that lapped #o h “Don't youse | eing scares me; I ain't ust rily at the ship. e me," he begged, And Bill desisted from his purpose. “All right, Danny," he laughed, “This ain't goin’ ter burt yer. Gee! and the Ride Home Ha! Hal HeelHee! PAIR OF PANTH ON THITH gulped, “and I so's Kiddo,” whining piteously. r I'm scart, and Fhe ate GOS. Wa friend, Hans, found him nod- bor noises assaulted bis sensitive ears | “!ng In his doorway. and he rebelled. “Shut up!" ordered Bill, and atmed | the German. * Then rithout warning, came the| “f can't.” replied Anderson, “Two ‘The big ferryboat reeled as | SUYS are back there playing pool.” her side was ripped open. | crash after crash a8 8 snerpendous | game and make them go bh them sheared {ts deadly way down the decks, The bow itself bent and|them two or three hints, but ther A huge rent showed | took no notice of them." } IT could! doubled back. faintly to their ears. They swarmed | the back of the along the stone piers and stood there, | Anderson was sitt terrified into silence—for the fog shut] “It's all righ in the tragedy like a murder com- | fied; “they're goir mitted in a dungeon. There were few survivors of the | Anderson, wreck—reacue was impossible, But] “Oh,” said Hans, with an al two of them were Danny and Kiddo | difference, —for the child, with the dog in his wHow?" up hours after,| “I just took the balls off th “ strapped fast to a wooden leg, Popular Magazine. e table. FAA Precnab mote Oe Sek NNR Ssh IRA RC SY By Thornton Fisher THEWED Gewep) TOUTTON Prese Publishing Co. (N. ¥. Bvesiag vif By Vic I've crossed in flercer ones than this| Jy the Nature of a Hint. youse ts a sailor,” Danny A NDERSON owned @ poolroom, and late one night his German “Why don't you go to bea?” askeu There was| “Why don’t you break up. their “I've tried to, but I can't, I gave Then she was| Hans assumed an expression of de- It's a cinch, and| gone in the yellow blanket of the fox: | termination. On shore the peorle gathered in| “Leave it to me," he sald, fright as they heard the sound of the |'em a hint." Tl give yells came| Inu few minutes h returned from 20m to Where said, much grati- ng home." tix it? “How did you Inquired qd I ir of In 1 Kuve ‘em a hint."