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This Man, Joe Murray

By William Corcoran

CHAPTER ONE

WANT to tell this story. It is a love story, but is not about a girl and a man and the conflict between them until they finally give up and try to pull together, which most love stories are. This is about love itself, and that makes it an unusual story. What is love? You'd think anybody would know, with all the talk there is about it. They don’t. I think I have an idea, and that is why I tell this story. It begins with Joe Murray, a young man, a very young man just starting to work and spending his first earned money on the girls. I guess that was the main reason why Joe went to work as soon as he could; that and the simple act that every young man in Joe's walk of life does the same. Joe was born on Simplon St. on the south side of the city in a fourth-floor railroad tenement flat As ga little fellow Joe played with the little girls on the

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mented the waspish young girls on| “Don’t tell ME they ain’t handmade. I just got ’em in from Japan the block: as a young buck he in- this morning!

vestigated the possibilities in the next block and the one beyond. So when he became a young man, rath- FLAPPER FANNY

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er handsome with his 19 years, a — lithe, smooth dancer and a smart, glib talker, with lots of self-confi-dence—it was logical enough that Joe sheuld blow town and try his luck around the country wherever there were plenty of jobs and money and people . .. and girls. This may sound as if Joe were a mere brainless gam chaser, out for what he could get and no regard for where or how. That isn’t true. Joe had brains, and he wasnt mean or underhanded. It is true that he was out for what he could get, so to speak, but he was not the kind to think twice about what he gave in return, and he gave a good deal. He was never cunning or insinuating, and he could forget a lot. If a girl chose to be insulted by his advances, which had in them 211 the nerve and gay good humo in the world, Joe never cared. There'd be another along in a moment, and she would choose not to be insulted, laughing with him | at his audacity instead, and she and | Joe would play together and have | themselves a swell time and no | harm done. And meantime the | first one would sit at home thinking bitterness about Joe and ali the young men insulting girls, and she'd have herself a perfectly terrible time, lonesome as the very devil.

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their | “I'll only be here for luncheon, so tell the man not to park it behind a lot of others.”

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girls, college girls, and society girls? They all go for the same reason, approximately, as Joe. They're made the same, all boys and girls, fundamentally . . . only they aren't always equally equipped with good looks and brains and a sense of humor and the ability to take life as it comes. Which seems unfair, yet somehow it works out in the end. with most everybody mated up | for good. The main thing behind it all is not to be alone. Joe was not very long alone if he could help it, any time, anywhere. The Murrays at home heard from Joe all over the nauon, usually from some town where the smokestacks were thick and jobs plentiful. Not until he reached Sparksburg did he settle. He explained only that he had a job, liked the town, lived in a clean boarding | house where most of the people were Poles, and thought he'd stick | a while: he was tired of traveling. Old Mrs. Murray, sharp and | shrewd for all her partiality, snorted and said, “It’s happened. | I've been waiting for it. He's just the one! They've been chasing him | since he could walk; you'd think | he'd know enough.” “Enough what?” growled the old | man. | “What do vou think’s keeping | him in that outlandish part of the | country but some girl?” The old |

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woman stared at her man, and a |

grim satisfaction came to her. “There are 30,000 people out there waiting and watching, men—go out

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felt like it . . . which was late when they were with Joe, for they were | usually no more anxious to go home than he was. Still, there were other towns with plenty of girls. The difference in Sparksburg was Helen. Now don't think this is turning

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all. I could turn it that way if I SHADE / wanted, keeping Helen and Joe | apart, setting her family against him or having him get in bad with THE MAXIMUM the police quite innocently, and cor- TH recting everything in the end and RH AE marrying them off. But that would pe distorting the facts. TI even FOR. THE tell in advance that Joe never mar- UNITED STATES ried Helen. He never even 1s RETWEEN «touched” her, as he would put it OCTOBER. himself. Not that it didn’t occur oI to him; quite the contrary. But for 5 once he only dreamed, waiting, |

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and the dream was astonishingly | * sweet. Joe, you See, was head over |

| | heels in love. into the subject of Helen. I don’t the same time beautifully curved | Helen was the only daughter in care to think too much about it. of body, fair and clean of skin and

rding house. y re. ie. Wh oe So i SR But this is life IT am talking about, gees put it, a Polack. That is a hot something in a love story. condescending word, but you | They must have made a picture couldn't condescend to Helen. The | when they were together: Joe tall Poles are a clean and thrifty and |and dark and straightly handsome, gentle people, with remarkable | with a crisp sort of jaw and peauty in their breed, and Helen mouth and quick brown eyes, half at 17 was all of that beauty in| way between a rake and a gallant flower. [in his hardboiled, likeable way,

Idon’t want to £0 too deeply 'and Helen, fijll and slender and at

hair and so clear and blue of eye. Neither was a fashion plate, but they were healthy and handsome and young. Then besides all that, there was this: The two of them were in love for the first time in their lives.

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