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Meet a girl one day, take a fancy to her, and off she sails for Europe the next." "Honest, Mr. Shapiro, you're just the limit!" She would have no more hold of his arm, but at the next Subway hood paused in the act of descending and held out her hand. "I'm just so much obliged, Mr. Shapiro."
"I told you Harry Mansbach would fix you up." She clasped her wrist-bag carefully over the bulk of a thick envelope and turned her shining face full upon him. "On deck A, too, right with the best!" He steered her by a light pressure of her arm into the up-town flux of the sidewalk. "If I was a right smart kind of a fellow I never would have helped you to get those cabins." "Oh, Mr. Shapiro!"
"Go 'way, Carrie, with such nonsense! You women don't know yet the difference between a laff and a cry. Well, Shapiro, you play me a fine trick, eh?" "It wasn't a trick, Mr. Binswanger pa, it was " "All off! All off!" And a third great blast sounded that set the tumblers rattling in their stands. "I guess me me and Irving's got to get off now, mamma " Mrs.
A dray-driver cursed at the snarl of traffic and flecked the first sweat from his horse's flanks. A gaily striped awning drooped across the front of the White Flag steamship offices, and out from its entrance, spring in her face, emerged Miss Miriam Binswanger; at her shoulder Irving Shapiro attended. "Honest, Mr. Shapiro, I I just don't know what I would have done except for you."
Stay home and you and Miriam and your friend sing songs together, and later I fix for you some sandwiches not, Izzy? A young man like Irving Shapiro I bet likes it if you stay home with him once. Nice it will be for your sister, too eh, Izzy?" Mrs. Binswanger's face, slightly sagging at the mouth from the ravages of two recently extracted molars, broke into an invitational smile. "Eh, Izzy?"
I never stop anywheres else on the Island. Most of the Shapiro concession always stops there." "Good as the next," said Mr. Jastrow, kicking onward. "I was sorry to hear you was ailing so last night, Mr. Jastrow, and I was sorry there was nothing you would let me do for you. They always call me 'the Doc' around exhibits.
Sit down, anyway, awhile yet till the Shapiro boy comes." "Sure I will, ma." "If I take a trip away from you this summer I worry, Izzy, and if I stay home I worry. Anyway I fix it I worry." "Now, ma." "Only sometimes I feel if your papa feels like he wants to spend the money Well, anything is better as that girl should feel so bad that we don't take her to Europe."
And because her new exuberance sent the blood fizzing through her veins with the bite and sparkle of Vichy, a smile danced across her face, now in her eyes, now quick upon her lips. "Come right in the dining-room, Mr. Mr. "Shapiro." " Shapiro; he's expecting you." She drew back the portières, quirking her head as he passed through.
A call came in, a few minutes later, from Krink, five hundred miles to the north-east across the mountains; the Resident-Agent there, one Francis Xavier Shapiro, reported rioting in the city and an attempted palace-revolution against King Jonkvank, and that the Residency was under attack.
"Ja, my children they drag a old man like me where they want." Mrs. Binswanger leaned forward smiling in her chair. "You see, we want papa should have a good rest, Mr. Shapiro. You know yourself I guess shirtwaists ain't no easy business. We don't know yet if we can get berths on the twentieth this month, but " "State-rooms, mamma." "State-rooms, then. What's that boat we sail on, Miriam?"
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