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Learn more- Ikey Schoenstein is the night clerk in the "Blue Light" drug store. He ate his breakfast and slept in the daytime at Mrs. Riddle's on First Avenue. She had a daughter Rosy, and she, of course, was the compound extract of all that was desirable to Ikey. But Chunk McGowan was the fly in Ikey's ointment. Ikey fixed Chunk's face up, after one of his numerous escapades, and when he was finished Chunk asked Ikey for some kind of powder that, if given to a girl, would make her love you. Ikey does not claim any knowledge of such a concoction until Chunk tells him that it is Rosy he is thinking of. He tells him that Rosy has promised to run off with him that night, but he is afraid she will renege at the crucial moment. Ikey tells Chunk that because of his friendship he will fix him up that kind of powder. Back of the prescription case Ikey grinds up a quarter grain of morphine and tells Chunk to drop it in her coffee. Chunk thanks him and exits. Ikey thinks that Rosy will sleep so soundly that she will not keep her appointment with Chunk. Besides this Ikey calls up Mr. Riddle and tells him about the proposition, and Riddle promises to meet Chunk with a shot gun. All night Ikey waited for news of the tragedy, and when his relief came he hurried down toward his boarding house. On the way he met Chunk, who was smiling broadly. Chunk tells the astonished Ikey that everything came off first rate, and that Rosy cooked the breakfast for him that morning, up at the flat, in a blue kimono. "But the powder," Ikey gasps. "Well, it was this way," exclaims Chunk. "At supper I looked at Rosy and I thought that if I could not win her straight it would be better not at all. So seeing another party present who has not indicated the proper affection toward his coming son-in-law, I watches my chance and dumps the powder in old man Riddle's coffee, see?"
Moving Picture World, July 14, 1917
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