When Jimsey
Plugged the Game.
By W. F. BRYAN.
198, by Associated
Literary Press.
Copyrighted,
No thunder rolled, no lightning tiash-
ed, when James Henry Holden got his
Job, but the proceedings were not alto-
gether without excitement. James
Henry entered the office with a de-
mand for the position offered in the
morning paper.
“We've got a boy,” declared Royce,
the gray haired manager. “You're too
late.”
“I was to ten other places before I
could get here,” explained James
Henry. “Which is the kid you put on?”
Royce nedded in the direction of a
small boy who was regarding his nice-
ly polished boots with embarrassed in-
terest. James rendered hoarse thanks
for the information and slipped out.
He was back again in an hour or so to
lay a package and some change on
Royce's desk.
“Them’s the pencils you sent for,” he
announced. “Where'll I put my hat?”
“l told you we had a boy,” said
Royce crossly.
“And ‘had’ ain't ‘s’” explained
James. “He's gone home to get his
eye fixed, and I told him I'd take the
job, sos he needn't worry.”
For a moment Royce hesitated. It
was bad policy to employ a boy who
had taken another's job, but Royce
was very tired of boys who lacked
spirit, so at last he nodded his head
in the direction of the bench where
the boys sat waiting for their turn to
be called.
“No more fighting or out you go,” he
warned, with a frown, and James
grinned as he crossed over to the
bench.
In two days he was “Jimsey” to ev-
ery one in the office with the exception
of Benson, the senior partner, and
even Benson thought of him as Jimsey
on those infrequent occasions when he
gave the lad any thought at all. He
was alert, intelligent and always ready
to perform services not strictly In his
line.
More than once Jimsey was sent up-
town to Benson's home with some
message, and in these commissions he
delighted. Usually he carried a mes-
sage to Mrs. Benson, and Jimsey grew
adoringly foud of the sweet faced girl
who was the broker's second wife.
Marion Chesney had married Benson
because her parents had given her no
peace until she had consented to make
the sacrifice that should re-establish
the Chesney fortunes even at the price
of her own unhappiness, and like a
brave little woman she was trying
hard to make the best of it, though she
found it very difficult at times.
Benson had sought a mistress of his
home rather than of his heart. He de-
lighted in seeing his wife at the head
of his table when he gave dinners to
his business assoclates. Like the plate
and the wines, she did credit to his
taste.
Beyond that he gave her little
thought. He was careful to provide
flowers and candy, but merely be-
cause he felt that this was expected.
and Jimsey took far more delight in
the trip than did Benscn in the send-
ing or Marion in the receiving.
Once it had slipped out at home
that the head clerk had a standing
order to remind his employer to send
flowers and things, and after that they
were flowers or candy to Marion—
nothing more.
Jimsey's frank admiration and lively
ways meant far more to her because
his boyish adoration was sincere and
his friendliness genuine. She came to
watch for his appearance, and to Jim-
sey the quarter or half dollar that she
gave him meant far less than the
friendly pressure of the slim, cool fin-
gers as she laid the coin in his palm.
So matters stood when Jimsey, mak-
ing a short cut through the park on
the way to the street car line, came
face to face with Marion and a man
as he turned a curve in the path.
There was no mistaking the man’s at-
titude. He was making determined
jove to her, and she seemed at least
tolerant if not receptive. .
For an instant Jimsey paused and
then half turned to retrace his steps
and made a detour. When he caught
a better glimpse of the man’s face he
sauntered forward.
He came to a stop before the couple,
and his bat was whisked off as he
made a sweeping bow to Marion. Then
he turned to the man with a look of
infinite disgust,
“Get on a new lay, Skinny,” he de-
manded. “You're off your beat and in
over your head. You'd better beat it
or I'll tell the cops where the lead pipe
from Hennessy's new tenements went
to. It's too bad you can't stay no long.
er, but you get t'll outen here.”
To Marion's surprise the man rose
and without a word took a hurried de-
parture. Jimsey turned to her with
mild reproach in his eyes,
“I know how you feel” he said
soothingly as he watched the tears
«come unbidden to her eyes, “You want
to have a steady, and the old man ain't
‘mo good for the mushy stuff. You can’t
flirtation with no ome what
J your push, but you don't want
mixed up with no lead pipe
conditions he had studied. This was
‘the first time that Ye presumed to be-
come personal.”
“He thought he had you cinched,”
remarked Jimsey, forbearing to add
that he thought she was “easy.” “You
went to put the old man wise, be-
cause Skinny may try to hold you up—
blackmail, you know."
“1 couldn't, 1 couldn't!” cried the
girl with a sob.
“But you must,” insisted Jimsey
firmly. “If you don't tell, he'll make
up all kinds of stories, and you'll have
to put up or stand for ‘em.”
“But you can’t understmid,” she be-
gan, and Jimsey sagely nodded his
head. He was wise far beyond his
years,
“1 know,” he conceded. “You two
ain't never had a good fight so's you
could know each other. C'n [ put him
wise?”
The girl shook her head, but Jimsey
shook his, too, and, though he sald no
more to her, he was waiting for Ben-
son when the latter left the office. It
was Beuson's habit to walk uptown
each evening until he felt tired, and
tonight Jimsey emerged from the shad-
ows of the corner and fell into step,
“I want to chew the rag, boss,” he
explained.
“See the cashier if you want more
salary,” was the short response. “I
canitot be bothered with office details.”
“This ain't office,” denied Jimsey.
“It's about the lady. 1 didn't promise
not to tell, and she's afraid to.”
“What do you know about my wife
that sho is afraid to tell me?’ demand-
ed Benson sharply.
“It's this way,” explained Jimsey
hurriedly. “She ain't got nothin’ to do
but to be good to folks, and she gets in
with the charity people. There's a
chap that trails with the bunch for
what he ean get outen it, and-—-and—he
was makin’ love to her today. There
ain't nothin’ wrong, and you can't
blame her. 1 seen him sellin’ soap for
twenty-fi' cents a cake, and there ain't
another faker I know ¢'n get more'n
ten. He's a swell talker, and she fell
for to listen— just to listen, you under-
stand, But he thinks that he
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threaten to tell you and—and get some |
money from her, and I want to plug |
the game.
“And get the money yourself for tell
ing? demanded Benscn., “It won't
work. [ have Implicit confidence in
my wife)”
To his shocked surprise Jimsey
slapped him jubilantly on the back.
“That's the way to talk,” he cried,
with enthusiasm, “only tell it to her,
boss. Don't tell it to me. Just sort of
get together, Good night.”
He sped away into darkness, and in
his perturbation Benson walked all the
way home.
He gould see the poor little |
girl fearful of what might happen and |
trying to greet him with a smile. He
could recall many little things to which
business had blinded him, and when at
last he came into his home he took the
trembling little woman in his arins and |
told her that he understood.
Eveu Jimsey could not realize to what
good effect he had “plugged the game.”
He had made many crooked
straight, and some vague thought of
this made him happy as he stood in
line for a gallery ticket to the melo-
drama, where the stage villain would
be knocked out and virtue would tri-
real life.
Feats That Never Happened.
A grotesque and foolish view of the
west leads many who are not ac
quainted with that part of the country
to perpeirate amusing blunders re-
garding the possibilities of the typical
western weapons, the rifle and the six
shooter. To shoot an animal's eye out
at a hundred paces is a common feat
in wild west literature, Sometimes it
is done with a six shooter—in type, not
anywhere else. Of course, no man
can see the eye of an animal that far,
1 have had a good rifieman tell me he
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read that the desperado Slade could
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else could do anything of the kind.
Even trick and fancy shooting at its
best could ever cover feats ascribed as
matters of course to the average fron-
tlersman by those devotees of frenzied
fiction who never saw the frontier.—
Outing Magazine.
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Eluding the Officers.
Here is an amusing description of
one of Balzac's periods of impecunios-
ity. Mery, the poet, a great friend of
Balzac, was an inveterate gambler
and rarely left the card table before
daybreak. His way lay past the Cafe
de Paris, and for four consecutive
mornings he had met Balzac strolling
leisurely up and down dressed In a
pantalon a pieds (trousers not termi
nating below the ankle, but with feet
in them like stockings) and frock coat
with velvet facings. The second morn-
ing Mery felt surprised at the coinei
dence: the third he was puzzled: the
fourth he could hold out no longer and
asked Balzac the reason of these noc-
turnal perambulations roundabout the
same spot.
Balzac put his hand in his pocket
and produced an almanac showing that
the sun did not rise before 3:50. “I am
‘being tracked by the officers of the
‘tribunal de commerce and obliged to
hide myself during the day, but at this
hour I am free and can take a walk,
for as long as the sun is not up they
cannot arrest me.”
Lots of Reasons.
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two of our finest silver ink wells!
“Here was a quandary, eh? The
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such things are usually settled.
“‘We must teach Lady Blank a les-
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