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"Say, if you're going to catch that four-eighteen you've got to break somebody's speed limit between here and track ten. Run along, Charley-boy, and Merry Christmas." But Mr.
"I wouldn't just laugh and laugh, and put my lunch money on my back instead of eggs and milk inside of me, and run round all hours to dance-halls with every sporty Charley-boy that comes along." "You leave him alone! You just cut that! Don't you begin on him!" "I wouldn't get overheated, and not sleep enough; and " "For Pete's sake, Hat! Hire a hall!" "I should worry!
I took that home and hung it in a mother-of-pearl frame right over the parlor table." "Sure! And above the family Bible, huh? I had a fellow once tell me he was a bookmaker, and I was green enough then to beg him to take me out and let me see him make 'em. But I've learnt a thing or two about you and your kind since then, Charley-boy." "You come out to-night and I'll show it to you myself."
"I dun'no', only I I I'm scared, Charley scared, I guess." "Why, you just never was so safe, Marjie, as now you just never was!" She could not meet the eloquence of his eyes, but his smile was so near that the tightness at her throat seemed suddenly to thaw. "Charley-boy," she said. But at the sound of returning footsteps she sprang backward, clasping her hands behind her.
But on the first instant of the two of them standing alone there in the little hallway, Charley Scully turned swiftly to Marjorie Clark, catching up her small hand. His eyes carried the iridescence of bronze. "Marjie," he said, "to why, to think you'd come! Why why, little Marjie!" "I oh, Charley-boy, I " "What, little one? What?" "I I dun'no'." "What is it, hon? Ain't you as glad as I am?"
But on the level, I want to take you out home with me to-night; honest I do, little spitfire." "Crank up there, Charley-boy; you got about thirty seconds to make that train in." "Gets you sore every time I ask you out, don't it, black-eyes? Talk about your little tin saints!" "Say, if you was any slicker you'd slide." "You can't scare me with those black eyes." "Can't I, my brave boy!
I'll swear if I didn't miss my train by ten minutes the first time I seen you standing here at this counter with those big black eyes of yours shining out." "You'll miss it again if you don't run away, Charley-boy." "Dare you to come along! I'll wait for the five-eighteen." "Don't hold your breath till I do." "Dare you to come out on the eight-eighteen! Say the word, and I'll be at the station."
She sank her teeth into her lower lip to keep it from trembling, but smiled. "But I wouldn't take the trouble, Charley-boy honest, I wouldn't take the trouble." "I'll get you yet, you little vix," he insisted, his white smile flashing, and retreating into the crowd. "You oh oh, you!" She stood looking after him, head backward and hip arched forward in the pose of Carmen's immortal defiance.
"Silly ain't no name for him, with his square, Charley-boy face and polished hair; and " "You let him alone, Hattie Krakow! What's it to you if " "Nothing except I always say October is my unlucky month, because it was just a year ago that they moved him and the sheet music down to the basement. Honest, I'm going to buy me a pair of earmuffs!
In the glow of a spray of red and white electric bulbs, in a bower of the instant's pretty-girl periodical covers, and herself the most vivid of them all, Miss Marjorie Clark caught a hastily flung copper coin on the fly, her laughter mounting with it. "Whoops, la-la!" "Good catch, kiddo." "Oh, you Charley-boy, who was you pitching for last season?" "The Reds, because that's your color."
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