“Here; let me show you out this way,” said Bowlder, leading the way to the front basement door.
“I hates to ask it of a stranger,” said the burglar, as he hesitated just outside the door, “but the Eight' Avenoo cars'll be runnin' in a little while now, and would you mind lendin' me a nickel? I lives down be the Desbrosses Ferry.”
Of course Bowlder would lend him car-fare. This somewhat raised the burglar's spirits, made sad by seven-up. As he closed the door behind him, the burglar looked back at Bowlder.
“Do you know, pard,” he said, “if it wasn't for my weakness for gamblin', I'd been a rich man a dozen times.”
ANGELINA McLAURIN
(By the Office Boy)
Angelina McLaurin's was a rare face; a beautiful face. It had but one defect: Angelina's nose was curved like the wing of a gull. This gave her an air of resolution and command that affected the onlooker like a sign which says: “Look out for the engine.”
Still, Angelina McLaurin was bewitchingly lovely, a result much aided in its coming about by a form so admirably upholstered that to look upon her would have made Diana tired.