New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-09
AFTER THE SUPPER.

Dating from a certain moment-the
second bottle, ! believe no more re-
member what happened to me. A cur
tain, like a misty cloud. descended upon
my memory, similar to the between acts
baize of fairy 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 fine business! At my age.
eight and thirty years, to allow myself
to be surprised by champagne like a
schoolboy on holiday! Stupidity's no
name for it! .
| But what plaques me most is to guess
what did last night, particulars, you
know, as to the events Of the evening.
Question my servant? 49, h..
Perish the thought of it! Expose my
self to the blushing before 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 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 IL or Is hours-a
suggestion. hint. one or two indica-
tions, more or less.
Where find them?
Ah-h. my pockets!
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 am.
tremble guiltily. What am going
to discover? j
Gingerly slip two fingers into the
side pocket of my vest and draw out my
! portmonnaie.
Empty? -.>E
By Jove!
In seeking to pick up my overcoat my
notebook falls, scattering upon the car
pet heap Of papers. "s- =.
The first Of these papers that catches
my eye is the slip Of the Cafe Anglais
| The trump card o. the nights misde.
meanor.
Thanks to this bill learn Immediate
ly that the misdemeanor occurred in:
| Salon II" could have sworn it.
IT'S always, some way, "salon ID" to
which l 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
probable, but still-no?
An inspiration! This menu, in be-
traying their tastes, will also to NE re-
veal their names. Let us try to de-
cipher it.
Huitres Portugaises-T 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 Ia PURGE de gibier-I greatly
deceive myself, or that potage is one to
which Maxine is specially partial. Max
ime, then, for No. 2.
Filets de sole Ia Joinville-Ferlaad.
to certainty; an Orleanist flet, pure
and simple. .-s"
Canetons de Rouen a rorange one
! but Polastron for that, an out and out
Rouennais, he.
Salades de legumes a la Russe-'Tis
useless to ask il Semenow was there.
.Bombe la Cardinal-From whom
could this have come? Stay, Marcel.
Who but Marcel is cousin to cardinalo
Lucien, Maxine, Fernand, Polastron,
Semenow, Marcel-Behold nv table re-
composed. #
Women also were at that supper then?
Beyond doubt. =. These scattered pho
tographs attest it. Female suppers out
OF supperesses. if | may call them so,
have always q rage for distributing their
portraits. Henrietta 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 a.wry neck.
The third -ah, the third, do not
know her. 'Tis strange!
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 that Lashes like
a fringe, and a genuine blond.
Deuce take It'll No, l do not know her.
The little yellow curls that dance about
her brow look even in this photograph
like a golden smoke.
Nearly child, too is years perhaps,
at farthest. Dressed modestly besides.
a high neck robe, puriit anical in cut, but
which only the better develops that
which II envelopes. Exquisite figure,
slim and 1.-the as a bending willow.
Decidedly she is a very pretty little
girl. And-and Isee IN her ears neither
pearls nor diamonds, nor even on her
fingers a single jewel. The reason pos
Hbly for her air of disdain.
Disdain, did Isay7 This child, who as
yet knows nothing Of life, yet seems al