Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-01-17
DER ALTE CHAPER0N.
ny W. J. HENDERSON.


but then they often make mistakes
like that. Kangaroos can't jump
like women when women are jump
ing at conclusions. You see, the
trouble was that Coils Beattie-
Collie they called him when they
wanted to be funny-did not have
much to say. He used to lie about
the hotel veranda in n big steamer
chair and read novels. He wore "A
Watching suit and cap and silk
shirt. He did not look n bit salt, be-
cause the skin OF his face was as white
and as smooth as a baby's. So they
all laughed at him for wearing a
yachting suit. All the other fellows
wore them because it was a yachting
port, upon the Sound, and pretty
much every one went in for sailing
which was about all there was to do
at the place. Collie went sailing once
or twice when some gener Gus fellow
took pity on him and invited him.
Then the women laughed at him
more, and in strange German called
him Der Alte Chaperon-the Old
Chaperon-because he always went
down into the cabin, stretched him
self on a locker, and tell asleep. They
said he was afraid the spray would
spoil his complexion.
Collie didn't seem to know that he
was Being laughed at. II he did know
it, he did not mind it. He never said
anything, but went on reading nov
els. German novels, too; and he
read them in the original. 1t was
most exasperating. What business
had a man at q gay, active summer
resort to wear nautical toggery have
a skin like Queens baby, and read
German novels? Once some one said
to him:
Come and play game Of bill
liards."
THANK YOU" he replied; cts a
little too much Tor me, you know"
He certainly was tool-and n
lazy one, too. They tried him on
several things, but he lay in the
steamer chair and read German.
And there were at least six beauti-
full girls in the hotel. And every one
OF them had been piqued into trying
to interest him. But he just staid in
the steamer chair and read German,
or went to sleep in the cabin OF the
yacht.
He didn't get seasick. They re-.
membered that, after he was gone,
as one of his good qualities. They
had him out one day when it blew
fresh and there was a lively sea on,
but he went to sleep like n rocked in
FAINT. He certainly was the most
torpid man that ever lived.
"Never mind" said Mrs. Bisbee
one morning, Miss Silvers is coming
here next week. Perhaps she'll wake
him up"
You don't mean Matte Sivers, do
you?" exclaimed Gertie Greer.
Eyes, do"
/ Oilg uedT!
And Gertip's mouth went down at
the corners.
What's the matter With Matte
Silvers?" inquired Ethel Brisket.
"Oh, nothing answered Gertie,
deiectedly; only | was at a place
where she was once"
well, what of it?" demanded
Sybil Vane, that tall, white girl, you
remember.
WELL" sighed Gertie, every man
in the house dropped right down at
her feet.
"0h, my! is she SO very wonderful?'
asked Ethel.
.'0h, nothing much" replied Ger.
tie; ''iust the most beautiful woman
ever saw, and with two little mill
lions in her own right"
There was pain nj silence, and all
the young women looked glnm. Ger
tie wis not girl to be snepzed ut,
and she used her mirror. Her deiec-
ton was ominous The girls gnzed
anxiousIy at Mrs BIsbee.
I'll don't want to he disaGreeable, "
she said. smoothly, "but Pm afraid
it's true"
whats her style?" asked Sybil.
Brown" replied Mrs. Bisbee, SEN
tentiously.
"Brown?"
eyes, burnt sienna. Burnt sienna