hesitation, "that you was, say, in the contracting business--or maybe
finish your cigar, and thought you'd get a little free monologue out
of dark, you see. And your wife won't let you smoke at home."
I frowned gloomily.
"But, judging again," went on the reader of men, "I'd say you ain't
have, by the arrows of Cupid! That is, if--"
My voice must have trailed away and muffled itself in uncertainty and
it seemed to me. "Suppose you take your dime back and spin your yarn
ones who spend their evenings in the park."
Somehow, that amused me. I looked at the frowsy derelict with more
none of my friends. I had always been a reserved and bottled-up man.
to myself in wonder when I felt an impulse to confide in this stranger
confide their sorrows only to the night wind and the gibbous moon, I
supposed to be in sympathy with love.
I told him of the days and weeks and months that I had spent in
wakeful nights, my dwindling hopes and distress of mind. I even
she had in society, and the magnificence of her life as the elder
the city's millionaires.
"Why don't you cop the lady out?" asked Mack, bringing me down to
and my fears so large that I hadn't the courage to speak to her of my
stammer, and that she looked upon me with a wonderful, maddening smile
other girls? Can you chin 'em and make matinee eyes at 'em and
this particular dame--the professional beauty--ain't that right ?"
"In a way you have outlined the situation with approximate truth," I
case. I'll tell you about it."
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