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Past One at Rooncy's
see many girls smoking' cigarettes in places like Rooney's
after midnight that are like you."
The girl flushed a little and lowered her eyes. "I see
that now," she said meekly. "I didn't know how bad it
looked. But I won't do it any more. And I'll go straight
home every night and stay there. And I'll give up cigar-
ettes if you say so, Eddie - I'll cut 'em out from this
minute on."
Cork's air became judicial, proprietary, condemnatory,
vet sympathetic. " A lady can smoke," he decided, slowly,
"at times and places. Why? Because it's begin' a lady
that helps her to pull it off."
"I'm going to quit. There's nothing to it," said the
girl. She flicked the stub of her cigarette to the floor.
"At times and places," repeated Cork. "When I call
round for you of evenin's we'll hunt out a dark bench in
Stuyvesant Square and have a puff or two. But no more
Rooney's at one o'clock - see ? "
"Eddie, do y-ou really like me ?" The girl searched his
hard but frank features eagerly with anxious eyes.
"On the dead level."
"When are you coming to see me - where I live ?"
"Thursday - day after to-morrow evenin'. That suit
you ? "
"Fine. I'll be ready for you. Come about seven.
Walk to the door with me to-night and I'll show you
where I live. Don't forget, now. And don't you go toI I-
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