The Efficiency Expert
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one or two powerful men upon his payroll accounted in a large measure for the orderliness of his place. O
he weeks that he was there he came to know many of the local celebrities in various walks of life, to know them at least by name. There was Steve Murray, the labor leader, whom rumor said
ternoon at four o'clock for her breakfast. She usually came to Jimmy's table when it was vacant, and at four o'clock
said to Jimmy one day as he was serving he
hink any one who smoked as many cigarettes and dra
d mellow laugh. "I suppose I do hi
I drank half what you do I'd be in
ment, as she had looked at him often s
"I can't quite figure you out.
but I didn't know I was so rotten that a regular custom
ngers around here look the part. Aside from that, about the only
ities are limited. All I can do is wait on
id the girl. "I wasn't rubbering. I
," said
p an adjoining table. Presently when he came to
em, but you wait on me just the same as you would on"-she hesitated and there was a little c
at there might lurk within their breasts any of the finer characteristics whose outward indices are pride and shame.
who's
he newcomer, and saw the
n and give you the once-over. And here's Little Eva wit
and after Jimmy had taken his order and departed for the kit
f yours?"
friend," replied the
graft?" as
a bank roll that would choke a horse, and you probably with a stocking full of dough, and I'll bet all the
girl. "You can almost tell it by lookin
he Lizard. "We room at the same p
r Eighteenth?"
did you know
gs I ain't supposed t
one thing I like about you is that you
e: "I like him," she s
eyed her fo
much," he said. "That bird's th
ood as you are and a damn straighter. W
ut don't try to pull him down any lower than he is.
down," said the girl. "And anyhow,
ber and subdued; he saw her later in the evening, in various stages of exhilaration, bu
he liked dominated her at breakfast; the other which he loathed guided her actions later in the evening. Neither of them ever referred to those hou