Baby Mine

catch her red-handed." Again he pounded the table and again Jimmy winced. "And even then," he continued, "she colours it so with her affected innocence and her plea about just wishing

" asked Jimmy, for the wan

" declared Alfred emphati

ce. With Alfred away there would be no furt

be a good id

business is in Detroit anyhow. I'm going t

s almost

red, "she can stay right her

me," tho

phasis, "I'm going to find out who the

spirit

id Alfred, "that is, every one where she'd be likely to go; and he

es became sudd

xplained Alfred, "Henri will be notified by 'phon

that do?" aske

irst train home,

?" questi

im!" exclai

immy, almost los

y's concern for anx

ared. "Don't you worry. I'll get

er conceal his real emotions, "why kill this one

n giddy, but at least she's always been chaperoned, except with him. He's t

mself. "Now, see here, old man," he argued, "

mmy quickly retreated. "I wouldn't believe h

as he saw the last avenue of

lfred, thinking o

I mean," explain

escape from his present difficulty. It was quite apparent that his only hope lay not in

hear from Henr

eatures. He had heard that waiters were often to be bribed. "Nice fel

ide of proprietorship. "No tips could touch He

faded from Jimm

astically. "He speaks every language known to man. He's be

dismally, "but SOME people don't APPRECIATE it.

something to live

d Jimmy, more and more abused at the

t," exclaimed Alfred

sider his young friend's assets, he

thing' who gives his wife everything she asks for, while she

ed Jimmy nervously. "

tedly, without heeding his friend's interruption, "what hav

y's face w

wrangles and rows! A childless home! Do you think she wants babies?" he cried, wheeling about on Jimm

an't see much in babies mys

went from him

n confusion, as his ear became puzzled by the proper sequence of his adjectives, "a fat, red, little wo

s," admitted

I ought to have SONS on the way to w

immy, thinking of his pres

we?" deman

s though expecting an answering

?" persis

k his head

sked the ir

mindedness Jimmy shr

"Oh, no!" he raged. "YOU have a wife who sp

ce showed

," conclu

thed a sig

knows whom. But I'll catch him!" he cried with new fury. "Here," he said, pulling a ro

ard his own capture, Jimmy backed away both lite

of getting so ex

nation to take advantage of a friend's reckless mood,

he exclaimed. "Let's see the co

pected voice broke into the argument a