The Argosy, Vol. 83 No. 1 — page 168: what you’re looking at

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158 THE There could be no two opinions about Thomas’s condition; he was weary to the dropping point, but he was still a friend. Peeyish and dragged out to the very limit was Thomas, but still a friend—for: ‘Well, there’s some of your clothes, any- way, and nobody saw me coming here; you'll have to buy new shirts and collars and the other stuff,’ he droned on. “TI told ’em that you’d left the city for two weeks; Westling said it would be safe enough for you to appear in public by that time, if not before. ‘To-morrow, if I’m still alive, I’ll see how much the people will allow on that furniture, Jimmy, and the thousand dollar check for the refunded rent I gave you, didn’t I?” “Ehe Yes—yes,” murmured the ex- chairman. “So instead of being dead and macer- ated, you’re only two or three thousand dollars out at the worst of it,” the artist THE ARGOSY. grumbled. “Gad! What a cold I got going home without that overcoat! Say, there was hardly a bruise on Riley, Jim! He must have completely wrecked a dozen of ’em, too! The Ameri- can Committee! Kind Heaven above! the American Committee! ”’ “T won!” said Jimmy Darton, from his rosy dream. “I won!” “Huh?” snarled his best friend. ‘Won what? If there ever was a ghastly, crazy, nightmare fizzle in this world it—” Here Jimmy Darton sat up suddenly and scowled wonderingly, and then smiled beatifically. “What are you talking about?” he de- manded. “The American Committee, of course. 11t—..”* “Well, I’m talking about Sibyl!” Jimmy Darton purred, as he settled back again. “Sibyl, my boy! Just about—Sibyl!” END. OC rane ms C uf a CMON bY Frank A Russell would impart somewhat.” “Cut out the Shakespeare stuff, Jim. I’m not in a ‘coming hither’ mood. Spill it from where you are, or let it slide. *Twon’t make much difference, I guess.” Bunny Harding and James Cochrane were at the end of their first season’s farm- ~ ae hither, my gentle Bunny. I ing, on the land they had bought with the proceeds of Jim’s stunt in Sydney. By a slick bit’of work he made a leading firm of jewelers come across with ten thousand dollars, in settlement of a threatened ac- tion where they had all the equities and Jim all the law. The outcome of their farming experi- COMMICLO® (C KS (C@