The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-01
AFTER THE SUPPER.

Da1Ze or falry spectacleS.
Nevertheless nothing is surer than
something did happen to me; many
things even. Everything proves it to
me. My coat on the floor, my cravat as
a nightcap and, above all else, if ever |
doubted it, my haggard face, fatigued
and pale.
Truly a fine business! At my age.
sight and thirty years, to allow myself
to be surprised by champagne like a
schoolboy on a holiday! Stupidity's no
name for it!
But what plaques me most is to guess
what l did last night, particulars, you
know, as to the events of the evening.
Question nay servant?
Perish the thought of it! Expose my
self to the blushing before a lackey! Be
sides he would only be able to formu-
late theories from the hour of my re-
turn and-and my behavior on reaching
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. 1t remains to
me then only to find some analogous
thing to as readily reconstruct my ex-
istence for the last 12 or Is hours-a
suggestion, a hint, n or two indica-
tons, more or less.
Where find them?
Ah-n, my pockets!
A childish habit of burying everything
there clings to me still and will now
perhaps serve me we'll. Behold the mo-
ment of rnrnmaging, then, like the cul-
Pit that / ain.
I tremble guilty. What am 1 going
to discover?
Gingerly | slip two fingers into the
side pocket of my vest and draw out my
portmonnaie.
Empty2
BY Jovei
In seeking to pick up my o~vercoat 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
ly that the misdemeanor occurred in:
"Salon L." could have sworn it.
IT'S always, some way. salon IA" to
which / gravitate.
The total? Eight hundred and twenty
francs. Peste! I've not been stingy, it
appears.
How many were they, | wonder? Who
were they? My habitual friends, it is
nrohable. but still-no?
An inspiration, This menu, in be-
traying their tastes, will also to me re-
raal their names, Let us try to de-
cipher it.
Huitres Portugaises-These are the
kind that Lucien prefers and that they
import from Arrachon expressly for him.
Lucien wa of the suppers, then, it is
clear. So much for No. /.
Potage a la PURGE de gibier-I greatly
deceive myself, or that potage is n tt
which Maxine is specially partial. Max
lime, then, for No. 2.
FLEETS de sole a La Joinville-Fernand
10 a certainty; an Orleanist flet. pur,
and simple.
Canetons de Rouen a l'orange-Noon,
but Polastron for that, an out and on
Rouennais, he.
Salades de legumes a la Russe-'Ti
useless to ask if Semenow was there.
Bonnie a La Cardinal-From whom
could this have come? Stay, Marcel
Who but Marcel is cousin to a cardinal
Lucien, Maxine, Fernand, Polastror
Somehow, Marcel-Behoid my table ri
composed.
Women also were at that supper ther
Beyond a doubt. These scattered phs
tographs attest it. Female suppers OF
OR supperesses, if | may call them 81
have always a rage for distributing the
portraits. Henriette of the Varieties
her costume of the Revue, her gre,
English coal hoppers squeezed into tigl
French slippers. Quick, conceal thyselt
And Jeanne, the eternal, in powders
hair and leering over her shoulder at I'll
risk of a wry neck.
The third-ah, the third, I do n
know her. Wis strange!
Not a bad lot, either, the third. She
even pretty. Small head, low brow, tir
nose. q mite of a mouth. Nothing b,
eyes-snperb eyes at that! Lashes lii
fringe, and a genuine blond.
Deuce take It'll No, / do not know he
The little yellow cnrls that dance abo
her brow iook even in this photogral
like q goiden srnoke.
Nearly achiid tools years perha,
at farthest. Dressed modestly besid,
A high neck robe, p~uritanical in cut, b
which only the better develops tn
which it envelopes. Exquisite fgu
slim and 1.-the as o bending willow.
Decidedly she - y very pretty Lit
girl. And-1and I see in her ears neitl
pearls nor diamonds, nor even on |
fingers singlA jewel. The reason .
sibly for her Air of disdain-
Disdafn. did Isayf This child, who
ut knows nsshiHAs pf VIE ret seems