The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-12

my bedroom.
divine it, that behavior, it's enough.
They pretend that with a single bone
Culver was able to entirely reconstruct
an antediluvian animal. It remains to
me then only to find some analogous
thing to as readily reconstruct my ex-
istence for the last 10 or 10 hours-a
suggestion. hint, one or two indica-
tions, more or less.
Where find them?
Ah-h, my poeketsl
A childish habit of burying everything
there clings to me still and will now
perhaps serve me well. Behold the mo
ment Of rummaging, then, like the cul-
prit that l am.
l tremble guilty. What am going
to discover
Gingerly slip two fingers into the
side pocket of my vest and draw out my
portmonnaie.
Empty
BY Jovei
In seeking to pick up my overcoat my
notebook falls, scattering upon the car
pet a heap of papers.
The first of these papers that catches
my eye is the slip of the Cafe Anglais.
The trump card of the nights misde-
meanor.
Thanks to this bill learn immediate
Iy that the misdemeanor occurred ins
Salon Il" could have sworn it.
IT'S always, some way, ''saion AZ to
which gravitate.
The totalP Eight hundred and twenty
francs. PesteI I've not been stingy, 1t
appears
How many were they, l wonder2 Who
were they? My habitual friends, it is
probable, but still-no2
An inspirationl This menu, in be-
traying their tastes, will also to me re-
veal their names. Let US try to de-
cipher 1t.
Huitres gaises-These are the
kind that Lucien prefers and that they
import from Arrachon expressly for him.
Lucien was of the suppers, then, it is
clear. So much for No. l.
Potage la puree de gibier-I greatly
deceive myself, or that potage is one to
which Maxine is specially partial. Max
ime, then, for No. 2.
FLEETS de sole la Jofnville-Fernand,
to certainty; an Orleanist flet, pure
and simple.
Canetons de Rouen rorange-Noone
but Polastron for that, an out and out
Rouennais. he.
Salades de legumes la Russe-'Tis
useless to ask if Semenow was there.
L. E,.aV7 NH
could this have come? Stay, MARCEL
Who but Marcel is cousin to a CARDINAL
Lucien, Maxine, Fernand, Polastron,
Semenow, Marcel-Behold my table re-
composed.
Women also were at that supper then?
Beyond doubt. These scattered pho
tographs attest it. Female suppers out
or supperesses, if | may call them so,
have always a rage for distributing their
portraits. Henriette of the Varieties In
her costume of the Revue, her great
English coal hoppers squeezed into tight
French slippers. Quick, conceal myself !
And Jeanne, the eternal in powdered
hair and leering over her shoulder at the
risk of wry neck.
The third-ah, the third, l do not
know her. IT'S strangei
Not bad lot, either, the third. She's
even pretty. Small head, low brow, tiny
nose, a mite of a mouth Nothing but
eyes-superb eyes at thatl Lashes like
fringe, and genuine blond.
Deuce take It'll No, do not know her.
The little yellow curls that dance about
her brow look even in this photograph
like golden smoke.
Nearly child, tools years perhaps,
at farthest. Dressed modestly besides
A high neck robe. puritanical in cut, but
which only the better develops that
which it envelopes Exquisite figure,
slim and 1.-THE as bending willow.
Decidedly she is very pretty little
girl, And-and l see in her ears neither
pearls nor diamonds, nor even on her
fingers a single jewel. The reason pos
sibly for her air of disdain.
Disdain, did say? This child, who as
yet knows nothing Of life, yet seems al
ready bored and weariedl BAIL women
or girls, they are all alike.
Still, where did she come fromf Who
is it that / have had, unknown, to sft at
my tableY Maybe it was her debut-the
opening of great success that | already
foresee and predict.
She sd beside me, of course. talked
with her, it's certain-all the madnesses
probably that came to my head. She
refused me. OF left me. Behold the rea-
son why, perhaps-that ] made myself
drunk.
But let us resume. There were then
in salon IA six men and three women.
My personneps complete. What hap
pened then? have the actors. but not
yet the drama
Let us continue the voyage in my
pocket.
THE Carries DE vIsTTE
The DEVIL
Two cards, as I'm sinnerl
The first bearing the name and adj
dress:
...s..........-.,sss.s'sss. sss..s'ss's.''s''s.
r. DE FAYET-MORET,
Sous Lieutenant
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The second:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
JULES BUHoT,
Captain l20th of the Line.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
What is it that all this tells meS I've
never known in all my senses as many
militaires as this. There is under 1t
Of course a quarrel, row, an alterca-
ton. These two cards, cold and glacial,
have assuredly been exchanged for two