Psmith Journalist

pening off it. During the daytime this one room loses all traces of being used for sleeping purposes at night. Billy Windsor's room was very much like a public-school stu

uses pens in New York--and on the walls a mixed collection of photographs, drawings, knives,

no means of getting out, and settled itself on a corner of the settee. Psmith, sinking gracefully down beside it, stretched out his legs and lit a cigarette. Mike took o

You have snug quarters up here, Comrade Windsor. I hold that there is nothing like one's own roof-tree. It is a great treat to one who, like myse

pensive at the A

I think we will hunt around for some such cubby-hole as th

d flats very cheap. Furnished, too. You should move there. It'

certain amount of harmless revelry can be whacked out of Fourth Avenue, we must dash

ght," s

hat little journal of which you spoke. I have had so few opportunit

a bundle of papers from the book-stand. He t

y feel like it. Don't say I didn't warn

young man. There was an indescribable air of toughness about him, partly due to the fact that he wore his hair in a well-oiled fringe almost down to his eyebrows, which gave him the appearance of

nce, proved to be a whistled tune. During the interview which followed,

he said to the

," he said, "is Comrade Windsor. To your right is Co

d another tune. As he looked round the roo

orward, and touching the c

vis?" asked Wind

out a touch of complacency, as of

rvis was a

s living abode was in the upper story of that house, and it was there that he kept the twenty-three cats whose necks were adorned with leather collars, and whose n

to pay their ten cents for admittance, and once in, to make hay. And this habit, Mr. Maginnis found, was having a marked effect on his earnings. For genuine lovers of the dance fought shy of a place where at any moment Philistines might burst in and break heads and furniture. In this crisis the proprietor thought of his friend Bat Jarvis. Bat at that time had a solid reputation as a man of his hands. It is true that, as his detractors pointed out, he had killed no one--a defect which he had subsequently corrected; but his admirers based his claim to respect on his many meritorious performances with fists and with the black-jack. And Mr. Maginnis for one held him in the very highest esteem. To Bat accordingly he went, and laid his painful case before him. He offered him a handsome salary to be on hand at the nightly dances and check undue revelry by his own robust methods. Bat had accepted the offer. He had gone to Shamrock Hall; and with him, faithful adherents, had gone such stalwarts as Long Otto, Red Logan, Tom

as Bat

. Jarvis, touching the ca

sor. "We found two fellows setting a dog

s nodded

here, if you wan

Here,

He looked round the company, met Psmith's eye-glass, was transfix

and paused. "Obl

his left arm, and extende

e!" h

y di

to stand and whistle

is roving gaze once more upon Bill

odded ap

nable animal, full of the highest spirits. Her knockabout act in the restaurant would have satisfied the

if pondering over his remarks.

d to be of service. You know the address. Gr

en nodded to Psmith and Mike, and left the

hat? I am a man of few words myself. Comrade Jarvis's massive silences

indsor

hat I've heard about him. Still, if one got mixed up with any of that East-Side crowd, he wo

yself tensely on this very entertaining little journal of yours. Comrade Jackson, here is one for you. For sound, clear-headed criticism," he added to