Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-18
TELLING YARNS FOR DRINKS.
The Odd Characters One Meets About q
Hotel LObby-The Judges Romance
Told to Unappreciafive Ears.


The Odd Characters One Meets About q
Hotel LObby-The Judges Romance
Told to Unappreciative Ears.
"Yes, sir, Jumped right overheard and saved
her-I don't care if do. / don't drink often,
but I'll take little something with you. When
mans getting DID, think he needs a little
something to brace him up, you know. Let me
introduce you to my friends. Judge-Greene
Yes, Green. Judge Green, Col. A, Col B,
Col. c.. Col. D.. They'll go along with u.s."
Then the whole party went off to the bar We
were In the lobby of one of the uptown hotels.
The man that was doing all the talking was
about CO. had long, white hair under black
SLOUGH hat, and had on q rusty black suit that
shone In the back when he got up, and was
well polished at the elbows. He was stopped in
the shoulders and had a very cunning express
of the hotel lobby. His companion wore a
bNoad-brimmed hat and had a-stranger-from.
habitues.
"Bpmsr' exclaimed the clerk; then sat down
and began to pick his teeth.
Nv hat?" said THE STAR man, who had his
elbows on the register.
'round," continued the clerk. They're all
buns and they work the strangers
whats the story?"
the coioneis, hang around here all the time,
waiting to be treated by some one whom they
can lalk INTO IL. Ihey all have their Stories and
can generally make themselves agreeable
them. They're study. There's whole gang
among them. When one strikes a good thing
ne calls the rest into it, and the Judges story is
| generally good for drinks all round
just Then the whole party shuffied out of the
par, ana the stranger went off with puzzled
sort Of look on his face. The judge and .olonels
settees.
"Yes, sir; I have boarded here long time
s saa the Judge, as THE STAR man took seat by
got used to it: It's sort of halfway decent
Riace. patronizingly) anyhow, YOU know. 1
like IT.. OF course it isn't as good as my quar-
ters In Paris. Couldn't expect that When 1
was consul general to Paris-oh yes, was in
Paris four years; I'd rather live there than any
place In the world; I'd be there now but for a
little incident Yes my quarters at Paris We're
very elegant 1t came about very curiously-
the incident mean. That's what brought me
ing over.I am Virginiah, you see, and went
abroad for pleasure. When was going over
there the, was very beautiful young girl on board.
she was Just budding into womanhOod, like a
eighteen. She was with her aged father. was
| upon her. loved from distance. They were
very reserved and / was proud-Oh, when
think how those arms chung about my neck
when bore her up from the black depths of
Here he stopped, and looked very hard at THE
STAR man to see if it was having the proper eff
feet. Then he sweled out his chest and spoke
with an air of much Importance.
~ es, sir; a storm came up and swept her off
| into the sea. / plunged in and saved her. Yes,
sir plunged into the sea. and pucked her
| from the dark coral caverns of the deep!-I
don't care ii do. Just little something once in
"But let's have the rest of the story first Don't
stop there, pleaded the scribe innocently.
s. "o5, yes!"cWell, where was II Oh, yes; I
name was? TeI Colonel of cousss they hey S Were
vel very grateful. The old man was grateful but
lost track of them in Paris. There was mys-
| terry about them-a great mystery. know If
she is alive to-day she loves me. And-er-er-er.
so long. Three years afterwards I got a teles,
gram from America saying that Gen. Blank, the
young lady's father, had died, and left me an
| immense fortune. I resigned my commission
as minister plenipotentiary, and started at once
for America. 1t was not the money. 1t was the
young LADY DIV What did care for money had
| money was gone. Every thing was gone, An old
| uncle had sold everything and carried her off by
force and hid her away-on some desert island,
D.! guess. spent most of my own fortune looking
Tor her. III get the money before long but sha il
never see her again. on, yes; have instituted
Here he stopped and pressed his throat with
| his fingers and coughed. My throat gets very
minister at Berlin got into bad habit Of t mhs
ing a cock tail just at this time. It's very bad
habit. Let me Introduce you to my friends,
the coones who had been snorns a ON t al.
leather settees, filed out in front of the scribe
Col. A. was twisted all over ON one side and
propped up on a stick, apd had a clay pipe up
side down in his mouth. Col. B. was built
something like q bottle. He had little feet and
| little legs, under an immense belly that had all
settled doEn in one place. He wore beaver
that looked as If it had been boiled, and his
face looked as If it might have been dipped in,
| too, long enough to turn color, like a lobster.
The dregs of wine had settled in his nose and
| instead of talking he stood still and wheezed.
col. E. &c led all the fashionable germans
society man now" said the Judge. The colonel
tried to smile, but coughed and wheezed instead,
and the veins in his nose spread themselves out
oven his cheeks and swelled up in his temples
All the rest of the colonies had long hair, red
noses, and a great deal of dignity. On being
informed that their new acquaintance was q
temperance man, they scattered around among
the seats, and the judge looked scornful as he
shufled off into the reading room and fell
asleep in chair.