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"Bully!" he cried. "You chaps are wonders!" "Well, what would you have done?" asked Tom indignantly. "How were we to know that it was a joke?" "Oh, I'd have done the same thing, of course," answered the other soothingly. "Only the idea of the New York police department being on the lookout for me struck me as a bit humorous." "Tom says you asked him about Tannersville," said Steve.
He's a decent, respectable young feller by the name Tuchman, what works as bookkeeper by the Kosciusko Bank. They give him a two weeks' vacation and he comes to work by us, Abe." "That's a fine way to spend a vacation, Mawruss," Abe commented. "Why don't he go up to Tannersville or so?"
Three or four months later, however, something happened that played havoc with that feeling ON a Saturday morning in August I took a train for Tannersville, Catskill Mountains, where the Kaplan family had a cottage. I was to stay with them over Sunday. I had been expected to be there the day before, but had been detained, August being part of our busiest season.
He advised me concerning trains to Tannersville, and then we passed to the hotel business and mutual acquaintances Presently Miss Tevkin, apparently on her way from her room, paused at the counter, by my side, to leave her key.
Then, at last, the precious envelope came to light from the depths of the very first pocket in which he had searched and, with sighs of vast relief, the two boys subsided into the seat. By that time Tannersville was left behind and the great adventure had begun!
"How do you do, boys," greeted the sole occupant of the office in a thin, high voice. "What are the names, please?" As he spoke he took a card from a pile in front of him and dipped a pen in the ink-well. "Stephen D. Edwards, sir." "Full name, please." "Stephen Dana." "Very good. Place of residence?" "Tannersville, Pennsylvania." "A wonderful state, Pennsylvania. Parents' names, please."
Hall that Tom's clothing, while quite good enough for Tannersville, would never do for Brimfield Academy, and poor Tom had to be fitted to new suits of clothes and shoes and hats and various other articles of apparel. They were to leave early Monday morning, for in that way they could reach Brimfield before dark.
I recalled that one of the things I was booked to do in Tannersville was to attend a charity meeting of East Side business men, of which Kaplan was one of the organizers. Two subscriptions were to be started one for a home for aged immigrants and one for the victims of the anti-Jewish riots in Russia and I was expected to contribute sums large enough to do credit to my prospective father-in-law
Tannersville is not a large town and those who were on the platform that morning when the New York express pulled in understood the dilemma and smiled over it. Steve and Tom were both rather relieved when the good-byes were over and the train was pulling out of the station. "Blamed foolishness," muttered Steve as he met Tom where their bags were piled on one of the seats.
It was something sinister, absurd, and uncouth But Miss Tevkin was a beautiful girl, nevertheless. So I pitied her for being the daughter of an East Side writer The tennis game did not last long. Miss Tevkin and her companion soon went indoors. I went out for a stroll by myself. I was thinking of my journey to Tannersville the next morning. The enforced loss of time chafed me.
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