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Updated: June 1, 2025
Take it from me, if there wasn't something in me that's just sorry for you, I wouldn't walk these here blocks with you. Sometimes when I look at you right hard, Blink, honest, it looks to me like the coke's got you, Blink." "Now, Marjie " "You wouldn't tell me if it had. But you got the twitches, all righty." "It's me nerves, Marj; me nerves and you."
Marjorie Clark let her gaze rest for the moment upon her companion, and her voice seemed suddenly to nestle deep in her throat. "Gee! Blink, if I thought any of the the uplift stuff I've tried to pump into you had seeped in. Gee! if I could think that, Blink!" Tears lay close to the surface of her words, and his lean face was thrust farther forward in affirmation. "It has, Marj.
"Can't a fellow drop around to pick you up?" "Land that job?" "Not a chance. What they want down there is a rough-neck, not a gentleman rubber-down. Say, take it from me; after a 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 down to-night, Marj?" "Where?"
"Let me meet a slick little up-stage fellow that doesn't have to look two ways before he walks the wrong beat in daylight; let me meet a fellow like that, and where does it get me?" "I'm no saint, Marj, 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? He does not.
"Marj would certainly be great as president," she said sweetly; "except for one thing and that's the very thing that's keeping her away this afternoon; she's more interested in athletics and Scout activities in fact, anything where Miss Phillips is concerned" she paused for a second to allow the girls who were not Scouts time to think it over "more interested than she is in class affairs!
"And I really can't help attaching some importance to what she said," she remarked, when the girls were finally alone. "Oh, Lil," she added, "just suppose we should find her! This very week, perhaps!" "But New York's a big place, Marj!" observed Lily, rubbing her eyes, sleepily. "So don't get your hopes too high!"
"Well, then you missed her, that's all." Marjorie arose from her seat, as if to end a very distasteful conversation. But Lily was not through. "Marj, is it true that you gave her your pink dress?" "Yes, it is." "Oh, I'm so glad!" cried Lily, in the most relieved tone. "Ruth saw Frieda wearing it and your sweater besides and she said Frieda stole it!" "And you believed that!"
I got a couple of meal tickets coming to me down at Harry's on some ivories I threw last night." "Dice! And after the line of talk you just tried to make me swallow. Did I believe it? I did not!" "No stakes, Marj. Just for a couple of meal tickets we tossed. Come, girl, you 'ain't been down to Harry's for months; you won't get your halo mussed from one time. It's Christmas Eve, Marj."
Marjorie and Alice had hardly noticed the gradually deepening twilight, so wrapped up were they in the event of the afternoon. They blinked as Lily flashed on the lights. "Who won?" asked Marjorie, half-heartedly. "Doris, of course!" This carelessly. Then, looking closely at her room-mate, she realized that something was wrong. "What's happened, Marj? No bad news from home?"
Then, "But why all this interest, Marj?" "No special reason, except that I'm sorry for anybody that is lonely. I think I'll try to make friends with her." "You always did enjoy the 'Big Sister' act, didn't you?" jeered Ruth. A sarcastic little gleam came into her eyes. "How about Frieda Hammer?" she asked, pointedly. "She didn't turn up, did she?"
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