We Can't Have Everything

the Thropps. Kedzie put on her clothes, and

ly. A captain showed the Thropps to a table; three waiters pulled out their chairs and pushed them in under them. A

order a meal in a hotel is to give the waiter a

d, but he said, "Yes, sir. Do you li

and toast, but bring me some hot bread. And the girl-What you want, Kedzie? The same's I'm takin'? All right. Oh, some grape-fruit, eh? She wants grape-fruit. Got any good? All right. I guess I'll take some grape-fruit, too; and let me see-I guess that'll do to start

"George." It saved their

nd retired. Adna s

anyway, might's well h

when kings had dinner at nine in the morning than for these

pps surround that banquet. They wondered where the old man got money eno

ut for a million. Mr. Thropp's proper waiter hoped that he would be as extravagant with his tip as he was with h

he feast, but they had wrecked it utterly. Mr. Thropp found only one omission in th

lf a dollar which he did not want to reveal, the waiter placed before him

his?" sai

our name and room number,

to his little flock. "You see, they go

cil could hardly find a place to put his name in the long

this?" he sa

all suavity: "The price of the break

remulous, pencil. The total was corr

-er-roomer here. I

will sign, it w

m dollars and seventy-five cents for-for breakfast?-for a small fami

d. He put down no tip at all. He lifted his family from th

's tryin' to stick me.-

is fat ewe and their ewe lamb. Adna's

gore of the unfortunate hotel clerk. The morning trains were unl

some of his running start. With somewhat weak

t, and another young feller was here sai

s,

idn't kick. Now they're tryin' to charge me for mea

hotel is on the

d of suspicioned there was a ketch in it somewheres. After this we'll eat outside, and at the end of the week w

ek! Oh no, sir; the

nd and run down into his shoes. H

for those two rooms on

that's the

chattered, "Ain't there no

s,

all. We'll see about this." He went back to hi

ie: "Looks like poppa was goin' to be sick.

a did not speak till they were in their room and he ha

k! And that breakfast was 'levum dollars and seventy-five cents! If I'd gave the waiter the quarter I was goin' to, it would have made an even dozen dollars! for breakfast! I don

" said Mrs. Thropp. "I'd see t

with the burglars here. This hull town is a den of

ken in so. He began to throw into the

her father tapped her on the shoulder and repeated his "C'm'on!" she t

he view! The

t hustle our stumps. We got to get out of here and find the cheapes

her cradle because candy had been taken from her, or a box of

and he wished he had left her home. He'd never take her anywheres again, you bet. Kedzie lost her reason entirely. She was shattered with spasms of grief aggravated by h

sobs till they wondered what the people next door would think. Adna was wan with wrath. Kedzie was af

ather's threats was: "I won't

ollen, her hair wet and stringy. She gulped and swall

said to his wife: "Ma, we got to go back to first princi

t the power. She was palsied wi

and he roared with ferocit

ightened. She felt a new kind of fright, the fright of a nun at seeing an altar threatened with desecration.

" Adna snarled, as he pursued

bled. "You better not touch me, I tell you.

e to me!"

whispered as she ran to her mother and

, with ugly fury and ugly gesture, seized the young woman who had been his child and dragged her to him and sank into a cha

thump of the blows. Adna sickened soon of his task, and Kedzi

learn you who's

d lay still. She had not really swooned, but her soul had felt t