I did not write Norah about Von Gerhard. After all, I told myself, there was nothing to write. And so I was the first to break the solemn pact1 that we had made.
“You will write everything, won't you, Dawn dear?” Norah had pleaded, with tears in her pretty eyes. “Promise me. We've been nearer to each other in these last few months than we have been since we were girls. And I've loved it so. Please don't do as you did during those miserable2 years in New York, when you were fighting your troubles alone and we knew nothing of it. You wrote only the happy things. Promise me you'll write the unhappy ones too—though the saints forbid that there should be any to write! And Dawn, don't you dare to forget your heavy underwear in November. Those lake breezes!—Well, some one has to tell you, and I can't leave those to Von Gerhard. He has promised to act as monitor over your health.”
And so I promised. I crammed3 my letters with descriptions of the Knapf household. I assured her that I was putting on so much weight that the skirts which formerly4 hung about me in limp, dejected folds now refused to meet in the back, and all the hooks and eyes were making faces at each other. My cheeks, I told her, looked as if I were wearing plumpers, and I was beginning to waddle5 and puff6 as I walked.
Norah made frantic7 answer:
“For mercy's sake child, be careful or you'll be FAT!”
To which I replied: “Don't care if I am. Rather be hunky and healthy than skinny and sick. Have tried both.”
It is impossible to avoid becoming round-cheeked when one is working on a paper that allows one to shut one's desk and amble8 comfortably home for dinner at least five days in the week. Everybody is at least plump in this comfortable, gemutlich town, where everybody placidly9 locks his shop or office and goes home at noon to dine heavily on soup and meat and vegetables and pudding, washed down by the inevitable10 beer and followed by forty winks11 on the dining room sofa with the German Zeitung spread comfortably over the head as protection against the flies.
There is a fascination12 about the bright little city. There is about it something quaint13 and foreign, as though a cross-section of the old world had been dumped bodily into the lap of Wisconsin. It does not seem at all strange to hear German spoken everywhere—in the streets, in the shops, in the theaters, in the street cars. One day I chanced upon a sign hung above the doorway16 of a little German bakery over on the north side. There were Hornchen and Kaffeekuchen in the windows, and a brood of flaxen-haired and sticky children in the back of the shop. I stopped, open-mouthed, to stare at the worn sign tacked17 over the door.
“Hier wird Englisch gesprochen,” it announced.
I blinked. Then I read it again. I shut my eyes, and opened them again suddenly. The fat German letters spoke15 their message as before—“English spoken here.”
On reaching the office I told Norberg, the city editor, about my find. He was not impressed. Norberg never is impressed. He is the most soul-satisfying and theatrical18 city editor that I have ever met. He is fat, and unbelievably nimble, and keen-eyed, and untiring. He says, “Hell!” when things go wrong; he smokes innumerable cigarettes, inhaling19 the fumes20 and sending out the thin wraith21 of smoke with little explosive sounds between tongue and lips; he wears blue shirts, and no collar to speak of, and his trousers are kept in place only by a miracle and an inefficient22 looking leather belt.
When he refused to see the story in the little German bakery sign I began to argue.
“But man alive, this is America! I think I know a story when I see it. Suppose you were traveling in Germany, and should come across a sign over a shop, saying: 'Hier wird Deutsch gesprochen.' Wouldn't you think you were dreaming?”
Norberg waved an explanatory hand. “This isn't America. This is Milwaukee. After you've lived here a year or so you'll understand what I mean. If we should run a story of that sign, with a two-column cut, Milwaukee wouldn't even see the joke.”
But it was not necessary that I live in Milwaukee a year or so in order to understand its peculiarities23, for I had a personal conductor and efficient guide in the new friend that had come into my life with the first day of my work on the Post. Surely no woman ever had a stronger friend than little “Blackie” Griffith, sporting editor of the Milwaukee Post. We became friends, not step by step, but in one gigantic leap such as sometimes triumphs over the gap between acquaintance and liking24.
I never shall forget my first glimpse of him. He strolled into the city room from his little domicile across the hall. A shabby, disreputable, out-at-elbows office coat was worn over his ultra-smart street clothes, and he was puffing25 at a freakish little pipe in the shape of a miniature automobile26. He eyed me a moment from the doorway, a fantastic, elfin little figure. I thought that I had never seen so strange and so ugly a face as that of this little brown Welshman with his lank27, black hair and his deep-set, uncanny black eyes. Suddenly he trotted28 over to me with a quick little step. In the doorway he had looked forty. Now a smile illumined the many lines of his dark countenance29, and in some miraculous30 way he looked twenty.
“Are you the New York importation?” he, asked, his great black eyes searching my face.
“I'm what's left of it,” I replied, meekly31.
“I understand you've been in for repairs. Must of met up with somethin' on the road. They say the goin' is full of bumps in N' York.”
“Bumps!” I laughed, “it's uphill every bit of the road, and yet you've got to go full speed to get anywhere. But I'm running easily again, thank you.”
He waved away a cloud of pipe-smoke, and knowingly squinted33 through the haze34. “We don't speed up much here. And they ain't no hill climbin' t' speak of. But say, if you ever should hit a nasty place on the route, toot your siren for me and I'll come. I'm a regular little human garage when it comes to patchin' up those aggravatin' screws that need oilin'. And, say, don't let Norberg bully35 you. My name's Blackie. I'm goin' t' like you. Come on over t' my sanctum once in a while and I'll show you my scrapbook and let you play with the office revolver.”
And so it happened that I had not been in Milwaukee a month before Blackie and I were friends.
Norah was horrified36. My letters were full of him. I told her that she might get a more complete mental picture of him if she knew that he wore the pinkest shirts, and the purplest neckties, and the blackest and whitest of black-and-white checked vests that ever aroused the envy of an office boy, and beneath them all, the gentlest of hearts. And therefore one loves him. There is a sort of spell about the illiterate37 little slangy, brown Welshman. He is the presiding genius of the place. The office boys adore him. The Old Man takes his advice in selecting a new motor car; the managing editor arranges his lunch hour to suit Blackie's and they go off to the Press club together, arm in arm. It is Blackie who lends a sympathetic ear to the society editor's tale of woe38. He hires and fires the office boys; boldly he criticizes the news editor's makeup39; he receives delegations40 of tan-coated, red-faced prizefighting-looking persons; he gently explains to the photographer why that last batch41 of cuts make their subjects look as if afflicted42 with the German measles43; he arbitrates any row that the newspaper may have with such dignitaries as the mayor or the chief of police; he manages boxing shows; he skims about in a smart little roadster; he edits the best sporting page in the city; and at four o'clock of an afternoon he likes to send around the corner for a chunk44 of devil's food cake with butter filling from the Woman's Exchange. Blackie never went to school to speak of. He doesn't know was from were. But he can “see” a story quicker, and farther and clearer than any newspaper man I ever knew—excepting Peter Orme.
There is a legend about to the effect that one day the managing editor, who is Scotch45 and without a sense of humor, ordered that Blackie should henceforth be addressed by his surname of Griffith, as being a more dignified46 appellation47 for the use of fellow reporters, hangers-on, copy kids, office boys and others about the big building.
The day after the order was issued the managing editor summoned a freckled48 youth and thrust a sheaf of galley49 proofs into his hand.
“Take those to Mr. Griffith,” he ordered without looking up.
“T' who?”
“To Mr. Griffith,” said the managing editor, laboriously51, and scowling52 a bit.
The boy took three unwilling53 steps toward the door. Then he turned a puzzled face toward the managing editor.
“Say, honest, I ain't never heard of dat guy. He must be a new one. W'ere'll I find him?”
“Oh, damn! Take those proofs to Blackie!” roared the managing editor. And thus ended Blackie's enforced flight into the realms of dignity.
All these things, and more, I wrote to the scandalized Norah. I informed her that he wore more diamond rings and scarf pins and watch fobs than a railroad conductor, and that his checked top-coat shrieked54 to Heaven.
There came back a letter in which every third word was underlined, and which ended by asking what the morals of such a man could be.
Then I tried to make Blackie more real to Norah who, in all her sheltered life, had never come in contact with a man like this.
“... As for his morals—or what you would consider his morals, Sis—they probably are a deep crimson56; but I'll swear there is no yellow streak57. I never have heard anything more pathetic than his story. Blackie sold papers on a down-town corner when he was a baby six years old. Then he got a job as office boy here, and he used to sharpen pencils, and run errands, and carry copy. After office hours he took care of some horses in an alley50 barn near by, and after that work was done he was employed about the pressroom of one of the old German newspaper offices. Sometimes he would be too weary to crawl home after working half the night, and so he would fall asleep, a worn, tragic58 little figure, on a pile of old papers and sacks in a warm corner near the presses. He was the head of a household, and every penny counted. And all the time he was watching things, and learning. Nothing escaped those keen black eyes. He used to help the photographer when there was a pile of plates to develop, and presently he knew more about photography than the man himself. So they made him staff photographer. In some marvelous way he knew more ball players, and fighters and horsemen than the sporting editor. He had a nose for news that was nothing short of wonderful. He never went out of the office without coming back with a story. They used to use him in the sporting department when a rush was on. Then he became one of the sporting staff; then assistant sporting editor; then sporting editor. He knows this paper from the basement up. He could operate a linotype or act as managing editor with equal ease.
“No, I'm afraid that Blackie hasn't had much time for morals. But, Norah dear, I wish that you could hear him when he talks about his mother. He may follow doubtful paths, and associate with questionable59 people, and wear restless clothes, but I wouldn't exchange his friendship for that of a dozen of your ordinary so-called good men. All these years of work and suffering have made an old man of little Blackie, although he is young in years. But they haven't spoiled his heart any. He is able to distinguish between sham60 and truth because he has been obliged to do it ever since he was a child selling papers on the corner. But he still clings to the office that gave him his start, although he makes more money in a single week outside the office than his salary would amount to in half a year. He says that this is a job that does not interfere61 with his work.”
Such is Blackie. Surely the oddest friend a woman ever had. He possesses a genius for friendship, and a wonderful understanding of suffering, born of those years of hardship and privation. Each learned the other's story, bit by bit, in a series of confidences exchanged during that peaceful, beatific62 period that follows just after the last edition has gone down. Blackie's little cubby-hole of an office is always blue with smoke, and cluttered64 with a thousand odds65 and ends—photographs, souvenirs, boxing-gloves, a litter of pipes and tobacco, a wardrobe of dust-covered discarded coats and hats, and Blackie in the midst of it all, sunk in the depths of his swivel chair, and looking like an amiable66 brown gnome67, or a cheerful little joss-house god come to life. There is in him an uncanny wisdom which only the streets can teach. He is one of those born newspaper men who could not live out of sight of the ticker-tape, and the copy-hook and the proof-sheet.
“Y' see, girl, it's like this here,” Blackie explained one day. “W're all workin' for some good reason. A few of us are workin' for the glory of it, and most of us are workin' t' eat, and lots of us are pluggin' an' savin' in the hopes that some day we'll have money enough to get back at some people we know; but there is some few workin' for the pure love of the work—and I guess I'm one of them fools. Y' see, I started in at this game when I was such a little runt that now it's a ingrowing habit, though it is comfortin' t' know you got a place where you c'n always come in out of the rain, and where you c'n have your mail sent.”
“This newspaper work is a curse,” I remarked. “Show me a clever newspaper man and I'll show you a failure. There is nothing in it but the glory—and little of that. We contrive68 and scheme and run about all day getting a story. And then we write it at fever heat, searching our souls for words that are cleancut and virile69. And then we turn it in, and what is it? What have we to show for our day's work? An ephemeral thing, lacking the first breath of life; a thing that is dead before it is born. Why, any cub63 reporter, if he were to put into some other profession the same amount of nerve, and tact55, and ingenuity70 and finesse71, and stick-to-it-iveness that he expends72 in prying73 a single story out of some unwilling victim, could retire with a fortune in no time.”
Blackie blew down the stem of his pipe, preparatory to re-filling the bowl. There was a quizzical light in his black eyes. The little heap of burned matches at his elbow was growing to kindling74 wood proportions. It was common knowledge that Blackie's trick of lighting75 pipe or cigarette and then forgetting to puff at it caused his bill for matches to exceed his tobacco expense account.
“You talk,” chuckled76 Blackie, “like you meant it. But sa-a-ay, girl, it's a lonesome game, this retirin' with a fortune. I've noticed that them guys who retire with a barrel of money usually dies at the end of the first year, of a kind of a lingerin' homesickness. You c'n see their pictures in th' papers, with a pathetic story of how they was just beginnin' t' enjoy life when along comes the grim reaper77 an' claims 'em.”
Blackie slid down in his chair and blew a column of smoke ceilingward.
“I knew a guy once—newspaper man, too—who retired78 with a fortune. He used to do the city hall for us. Well, he got in soft with the new administration before election, and made quite a pile in stocks that was tipped off to him by his political friends. His wife was crazy for him to quit the newspaper game. He done it. An' say, that guy kept on gettin' richer and richer till even his wife was almost satisfied. But sa-a-ay, girl, was that chap lonesome! One day he come up here looking like a dog that's run off with the steak. He was just dyin' for a kind word, an' he sniffed79 the smell of the ink and the hot metal like it was June roses. He kind of wanders over to his old desk and slumps80 down in the chair, and tips it back, and puts his feet on the desk, with his hat tipped back, and a bum32 stogie in his mouth. And along came a kid with a bunch of papers wet from the presses and sticks one in his hand, and—well, girl, that fellow, he just wriggled81 he was so happy. You know as well as I do that every man on a morning paper spends his day off hanging around the office wishin' that a mob or a fire or somethin' big would tear lose so he could get back into the game. I guess I told you about the time Von Gerhard sent me abroad, didn't I?”
“Von Gerhard!” I repeated, startled. “Do you know him?”
“Well, he ain't braggin' about it none,” Blackie admitted. “Von Gerhard, he told me I had about five years or so t' live, about two, three years ago. He don't approve of me. Pried83 into my private life, old Von Gerhard did, somethin' scand'lous. I had sort of went to pieces about that time, and I went t' him to be patched up. He thumps84 me fore14 'an' aft, firing a volley of questions, lookin' up the roof of m' mouth, and squintin' at m' finger nails an' teeth like I was a prize horse for sale. Then he sits still, lookin' at me for about half a minute, till I begin t' feel uncomfortable. Then he says, slow: 'Young man, how old are you?'
“'O, twenty-eight or so,' I says, airy.
“'My Gawd!' said he. 'You've crammed twice those years into your life, and you'll have to pay for it. Now you listen t' me. You got t' quit workin', an' smokin', and get away from this. Take a ocean voyage,' he says, 'an' try to get four hours sleep a night, anyway.'
“Well say, mother she was scared green. So I tucked her under m' arm, and we hit it up across the ocean. Went t' Germany, knowin' that it would feel homelike there, an' we took in all the swell85 baden, and chased up the Jungfrau—sa-a-ay, that's a classy little mountain, that Jungfrau. Mother, she had some swell time I guess. She never set down except for meals, and she wrote picture postals like mad. But sa-a-ay, girl, was I lonesome! Maybe that trip done me good. Anyway, I'm livin' yet. I stuck it out for four months, an' that ain't so rotten for a guy who just grew up on printer's ink ever since he was old enough to hold a bunch of papers under his arm. Well, one day mother an' me was sittin' out on one of them veranda86 cafes they run to over there, w'en somebody hits me a crack on the shoulder, an' there stands old Ryan who used t' do A. P. here. He was foreign correspondent for some big New York syndicate papers over there.
“'Well if it ain't Blackie!' he says. 'What in Sam Hill are you doing out of your own cell when Milwaukee's just got four more games t' win the pennant87?'
“Sa-a-a-ay, girl, w'en I got through huggin' him around the neck an' buyin' him drinks I knew it was me for the big ship. 'Mother,' I says, 'if you got anybody on your mind that you neglected t' send picture postals to, now's' your last chance. 'F I got to die I'm going out with m' scissors in one mitt82, and m' trusty paste-pot by m' side!' An' we hits it up for old Milwaukee. I ain't been away since, except w'en I was out with the ball team, sending in sportin' extry dope for the pink sheet. The last time I was in at Baumbach's in comes Von Gerhard an'—”
“Who are Baumbach's?” I interrupted.
Blackie regarded me pityingly. “You ain't never been to Baumbach's? Why girl, if you don't know Baumbach's, you ain't never been properly introduced to Milwaukee. No wonder you ain't hep to the ways of this little community. There ain't what the s'ciety editor would call the proper ontong cordyal between you and the natives if you haven't had coffee at Baumbach's. It ain't hardly legal t' live in Milwaukee all this time without ever having been inside of B—”
“Stop! If you do not tell me at once just where this wonderful place may be found, and what one does when one finds it, and how I happened to miss it, and why it is so necessary to the proper understanding of the city—”
“I'll tell you what I'll do,” said Blackie, grinning, “I'll romp88 you over there to-morrow afternoon at four o'clock. Ach Himmel! What will that for a grand time be, no?”
“Blackie, you're a dear to be so polite to an old married cratur' like me. Did you notice—that is, does Ernst von Gerhard drop in often at Baumbach's?”
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