Part 1 (2/2)
”What'll you girls have?” asked the bartender.
”Whiskey for me, Joe. What will you have, Dearie?”
”The same, and a big one,” answered Pearl.
”Say, Dearie, by what name are you calling yourself?”
”Excuse me for not telling you before, but it's Pearl--Pearl Jones--let's have another drink on it.
”Well, that's as good a name as any, at least, it's good and common,”
smiled Evelyn, as she killed her second drink without a chaser.
”You know the old saying, 'Common by name, common by nature.'”
”I'm d.a.m.ned if you ain't O. K., and we'll have another drink on that one. Hey, Joe, two more drinks for two ladies.”
”Say, Ev, you must have something on your mind tonight the way you are starting off. You girls have a drink on the house, will you?”
”h.e.l.l, Yes--I'll drink on anything. You know me, Joe--Bar Fly Ev, the girl without a limit--at anything. By the way, Joe, this is Pearl. She's a new girl in town.”
”h.e.l.lo, Sister, glad to know you. Have another drink.”
”I'm glad to know you, and Ev and I will have another drink, possibly several more,” answered Pearl, displaying her best smile.
”Say, Sister, you're dern good looking. I'd like to see more of you,”
said Joe, as he poured more whiskey, and leaned over the bar and patted Pearl on the arm. ”I'm O. K. You ask Ev if I ain't. How about it, Ev?”
”I'll say you're O. K., Joe, and you've spent many a dollar on me, but Jees, you're seventy years old if you're a day. Don't you ever get too old for this sort of thing?”
”You'll have to ask somebody older than I am,” answered Joe.
”Don't let her kid you, Joe,” smiled Pearl, ”You and I will get together real soon, how's that?”
”Here, here, here--you two, let's don't have an exhibition on such short notice. We gotta be moving along. We got a lot of hard drinking to do tonight, as well as a few dollars to earn.”
”Oh, Ev, don't be in no hurry. You and Pearl have another drink on the house.”
”Well--I guess we better have another little one before we go, eh, Pearl?”
”Sure, Ev. I'd as soon get lit here with Joe, as later. Makes no difference by me.”
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