Strictly Business Page: 93
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The Girl and the Graft 93
"Vaucross stopped and talked to me a few minutes
and then he took me to a high-toned restaurant to eat
dinner. There was music, and then some Beethoven,
and Bordelaise sauce, and cussing in French, and frangi-
pangi, and some hauteur and cigarettes. When I am
flush I know them places.
"I declare, I must have looked as bad as a mag-
azine artist sitting there without any money and my
hair all rumpled like I was booked to read a chapter
from 'Elsie's School Days' at a Brooklyn Bohemian
smoker. But Vaucross treated me like a bear hunter's
guide. He wasn't afraid of hurting the waiter's
feelings.
"'Mr. Pogue,' he explains to me, 'I am using you.'
"'Go on,' says I; 'I hope you don't wake up.'
"And then he tells me, you know, the kind of man he
was. He was a New Yorker. His whole ambition was
to be noticed. He wanted to be conspicuous. He
wanted people to point him out and bow to him, and tell
others who he was. He said it had been the desire of his
life always. He didn't have but a million, so he couldn't
attract attention by spending money. He said he tried
to get into public notice one time by planting a little
public square on the east side with garlic for free use of
the poor; but Carnegie heard of it, and covered it over
at once with a library in the Galic language. Three
times he had jumped in the way of automobiles; but thew
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