San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-27

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''But who's going to do the greatest
execution?" pursued Paul. thinking
that now he could get aname or two out
of the Colonel, and lead up naturally
to the girl he was after.
"Well," said the Colonel. 81 sup
pose Sadie Blood, old Gen Blood's
daughter; that flirting little brunette
of Venus, who thinks she's going to
carry things by storm, as she has done
tbese-but it isn't polite to say how
many years. She's the girl, you know,
who was reported engaged to old Sam
Tilden, and gets herself interviewed,
by CAD, every time she has an affair."
or takes hand in private theatricals;
holds sort of levee for the reporters
in her drawing-room, and confides in
them how she isn't half
as old as the papers say she
is, because she came out so
young She must have come out,
then, when children wore pantalettes,"
laughed the Colonel But how the
women do hate her! They say she's
fast, and vulgar and horrible
FORM but Saidiei doesn't give a rap,
damn she might say The men all
crowd around her, and the women
dom dare draw the line on her, for her
family's too goods nothing older in st,
Louis, and everything hers's demmedi
ancient"
"But you limited Miss Saddle has got
to take back seat" said Paul, anxious,
for the next name.
'Oh, yes" smiled the Colonel
that's the talk. Some of the fellows
at the club, who have been oyer to
Paris recently, bring back pretty big
stories about Lou Lebourgeois paul
started), whom her people have been
educating over there. They took her
across before she was in long dresses-
she isn't IS now-and she's never been
seen in st. Louis since she blossomed
out Not that they've given her any
social show over there, but some of the
fellows have had private peep at her,
and they swear she's just ravishing.
And as this Southern dance will be.
about the same as a coming-out ball
her first appearance, and everybody
there-they are backing her to carry
the town by storm. Why, the men are
actually giver odds at the club that in
the german, which is to be the finish
ing touch, she will double Sadie
Blood on favors-demmed low, isn't it,
this gambling about nice girl, just
as if she were new filly on the
track? Saddle thinks so, anyhow,
if she knows it; and you can bet some
thoughtful friend has told her."
whats her style?" queried Paul.
80, she's a complete contrast to
Saddle. A tall, graceful blonde, with
eyes like deep black wells, and stars at
the tottom-queer combination, you
see ii only at the South-classical feat
ures, cut with a chisel, peaches and
cream complexion, with the most deli
cate of tinting, figure not yet filled
out, but delightfully."- willowy; a superb
walk and naughty bearing, with dash
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melting tenderness, if you can touch
the right spot-thats the way that
have heard her hit. off a thousand
times Why, the fellows go wild over
her.
"And her brother Frank" added the
Colonel, as if new thought had struck
him, che did not come back with his
mother and sister, but took the next
steamer, and, they say, will be here
for the ball. Hes Yale man; been
doing Europe ever since he graduated;
must have been, should say, about
your time. Didn't you know him at
New Haven?"
"Lebourgeois. Frank Lebourgeois,
began Paul, not certain what he had
best answer, with Frank Lebourgeois'
crumpled, tell-tale letter in his pocket;
but he was saved the trouble. A real
estate man from Minneapolis oppor-
tunely pohed his head through the
door, pushing his body after it in hot
haste, shouting, 81 say, Colonel,
can't you give me fifteen min
utes right off about that
Smith mortgage? I've got to catch the
train in half an hour"
So Paul said Good morning" to the
Colonel, and turned his slow steps in
the direction of the Third District po-
lice station, and the Lebou rgeois
mansion.
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