,j ' .t' "", (" r,n " j W j" & EVENING PUBLIC1 LEDGER PHIL ADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY" ii,1020 WWTv wsjs ! THE NAME AND THE GAME By FANNIE HURST Starjono Clark refutes an invito- Uon to spend Christmas Eve oilh Charles Scully at his home, in the sub- Ufbs. Although he promises that his , mother will be there, she docs not trust him. CHAPTEIl HI SHE stood looking nfter bim, head bnckwnrd and hip arched forward In the pose of Carmen's Immortal defiance. Hut bchiud her flashing attitude her heart rose in her throat and n , arm gush of blood to her face, bctraing it. W h e n the i 1 1 il ruinated hands of the 11 lu minuted t o w o r clock swung to the wide aiiglc of five o'clock, Miss Marjo rie Clark and Miss Minnie liumlt. from the F a u c y KANNIE UU11ST Fruit stand opposite, cast off the brown cocoon of their workaday for the trim street finely which the American shop girl, to the stupefaction of economists and theorists!, can somehow evolve out of eight dollars a week. In the locker room they met, the placid sky -colored eye.-i of Miss Bundt meeting 5Iis Clark's in the wavy equarc of mirror "Snowing, ain't it?" "Yep." "Gee. that's n nifty little lint. Min. Where'd jou get the pompon!" "Five and Teu." "If it ain t got the Avenue written all over it." Silence. "Want fcome my powder, Min? Pink.i' "Nope." "Want to want to go to a movie tonight or or bum around the stores? It's Christmas eve." "Can't." "Date?" "Yep." Silence. A flush rose to Ms Clark's face, darkening it. She adjusted her dyed fur tibbet and n small imitation fur cap at just the angle which doubled its face value- Something seemed to leap out from her eyes and then retreat be hind n smile and a squiut. "Say. Min. if my voice hurt me like yours does, I'd rub salve on it," and went out, slamming the door behind her. But a tear lay on the edge of her down curved lashes threatening to riohochct down her smoothly powdered cheek. She winked it in again. The station swarm was close to her, jo-,tllng, kick ing her ankles in passing, buffeting. From out the swift tide a figure with out an overcoat, nnd a cup visor pulled well down over his e.es. locked her arm from the rear so that she sprang about, releasing herself. "Clink, out the pussy-foot trend, will jou? I've jabbed with a hat-pin for less than that." "SIcrry Christmas, Marj." "Yes, I'm merry as n crutch. What brought you around. Blink?" "Can't a fellow drop around to pick you up?" "Land thnt job?" "Not a chance. What they want down there is a rough-neck, not u gentleman rubber-down. Say, take it from me; after n fellow has worked in the high-class Turkish baths. Third avenue joints ain't up to his tone no more. I got to have class, kiddo, that's why I got such a lean toward you." "Cut that." "Come dowu tonight. Marj?" "Where?" "Harry's." "Well. I guess not." "Buy you a dinner." "But you're flat as jour hand." He set up a jingling in his left pocket. "I am, am I?" "Well, I'm not going." "When you going to cut this comedy, Marj?" "I'm' not. I'm just beginning. " 'Breaking into high Bociety, ch? Fine chance." "Yes. with the' gang of you down there hanging on like the plague, I got a swell chance, nix," "It's because we know you too well, Marj. Knew jou when you had two black pigtails and used to carry u bucket into the Family I'ntrnucc of Harry's Place, crjiug with madness every tlmo jour old man sent jou. flail, I ran see jou yet. sweetness, with jour big black ejes blacker than ever, and steering home jour old man from off n jamboree." "Sometimes I wake up in the night just like him and Ma was still alive and me nnd her was sitting there listen ing to him creak up the stairs on his bad night. I wake up, I can tell jou, in u sweat right in a sweat." "I knew you in them dsijs, kiddo, just like you knew me. That s why nou can't pull nothing over on a fellow, kiddo, that's had as many pulls onjour nil-day suckers us I hae. You re ii little quitter, you are. and sometiTiies 1 think jou're out for bigger game. ' "It don t mean because a gin .y:is born in the mud she's got li stick there, does II "No. but she can't pretend she don t know one of the old mud turtles when she sees one." "Mud turtle Is the right name. "The crowd has got jour number all right, kiddo J they konw you're out after bigger game. You're u little turncoat, thnt's what they say about jou." "Turncoat! Whp wouldn't turn n coat they was ashamed of? I guess jou all don't remember1 how I u-ed to saj, even back in those jears, when I was taking tickets down nt Lutes' old Fourteenth Street Amusement Fnilors, how I always said I was going to breeze awuy from the gang down thcie." "I lemcmber, all righty." "How I was going to get me n job uptown here, where I could get in with a decent crowd of girls nnd not be known for the kind down there that you and ail of 'em knew I I wasn't." "Sure we knew." "Yes, but what good does that do me? Can n dirty little jellow-haired snip over in the Fancy Fruits give me the oure-ocr and a turn-dowu'.' She can. And why? Because I ain't certified. I come from a counterfeit crowd, and who's going to take the trouble to find my number and Fee if it's rc.il?" Increases efficiency of a trust 50 "Aw now " Didn't a broken-down old granny over in the Thlrty-folirth street house where I roomed give me notice Inst week, becnuso Addle Lynch found me out one night and came to sec mo lit up like a Christmas tree." "Thai's why I say, Marj, stick to the old ones who know jou." "Like May Vope used to say, a girl might as well litnc the game us the unme." "If 1 was a free man, Murjio, I'd " "Where has the straight and unrrow got me to, I'd like to kuow? Some times I think it's nothing but n blind alley pushing me back." "If I was a free mini, Mnrj " "Let me meet a slick little iip-stugc fellow thnt doesu't huvn to look two ways before he walks the wrong bent in daylight: let me meet n fellow like that, anil where does it get mo?" "I'm no saint. Mnrj, but there ain't a beat in town I'd have to look two ways on. Ask any cop " "Does the slick little up-stage fellow get my number? Ho does not. I'd like to see one of them ask Unit dirty j little jellow head over in the Fnuoi. I Fruits to go home with him. A little Nobody-Home like her, just,becnlise she was raised in nu amen corner of the Bronx nnd has u six-foot master me chanic brother to call for her every time she works fifteen minutes later, she can wear lier hands cidssed on her chest andv a lily stuck in 'em nnd get awny with it, too." "Yoit'io right, kiddo; you got more sand than ten of such put together." "I'm ns good as her and better. I'm not fo sure by a long shot that any of thosu baby faces would say no if they was ever invited to sny yes. Watch out there, thnt cab. Blink, fice. your nerves arc us steady us gelatin." They were veering through the crowds nnd out Into the soft flurry of the sjorm. Flukes like pulled nut bits of cotton floated to their shoulders, vesting there. Seventh avenue, for the instant before the eje left the great Oreck facade of tlu llrand Union Station, was like a ilieam of Athens seen through the dapple of white shadows. Immediate ly the eye vected, however; the great 1 i-- V" vKrr-v ur nm K3 Qb-sfSlfj22PJL Jb "JJII cosmopolls formed by street meeting uvcnui tore down the illusion. Another block and second-hand clothing shops nudged one (mother, their Happing wares for tmlc outside them like clothes wash ou n line, empty urins and legs gallivanting in the wind. A storm car combed through the driven snow, scut tling It nnd clearing the tracks. Down another block the hot spicy smell of a Mexican rilt-li flontcd out between the swinging doors of an nil-night bar. 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