The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-06

the establishment and all bowed down
before her, even the muchly henpecked
Leon.
Now the plump and pleasing Paulina
no longer reigns behind the counter in the
Sparta; the mild-mannered Leon oficiates
no more in the kitchen. They have packed
up their belongings and those of number
Of others and faded out of sight. They
owe every body-first cook, second cook
and all the walters, too; they have unset
tied accounts with fish and game dealers,
butchers, bakers. wine and laundry men.
They took in everything and paid out
nothing. Nine. Papadaki did it with her
witchiDg smiles.
That is why August and Hippolyte and
Hyacinth and Jacques are in despair.
That is why NJ. MOrOni, the first cook, has
visibly jauudiced air; and that is why
NJ. Sales, the second cook. haunts the
water front in the vain hope that he may
lay his cheated palms on the lovely neck
of the peridiOus Paulina. That is also
why there stands upon the books of
dozens of merchants in this city long &C
counts in the name Of Papadaki that will
have to be entered under profit and loss"
Francisco market, is one of the victims :;
a. Geantit, butcher under the same roof,
is another. Sbarbaro & Co., 531 Washing
ton street. the ltaljan-Swiss Colony, Ber-
Tin Lepori, 516 Washington streer, are
others, but not all by a long shot The
Papadakis played no favorites, and dealt
with every store in the neighborhood
They did thriving business and madame
pocketed the returns.
But that is not the worst of it. The
leave-taking of Paulina was the blow that
told. For months she had been nursing
to her soul plan of revenge on those she
deemed to be her principal enemies, and
at the right moment struck the blow. She
left the restaurant the last time on Mon
day night. When the walters arrived in
the morning it was wreck The cash
register was Knocked into smithereens, the
tabe-cloths were rumpled and torn and
thrown in heap in the center of the floor.
DOZENS of wine glasses and bottles had
been smashed against the walls and some
of the window lights had been shattered.
THE electric light wires had been cut in a
dozen places and the big arc light in the
front Of the establishment had been car
ried off bodily. The place had all the ap-
pearance of having been visited by a
cyclone, and Hippolyte, Hyacintb. August
and jacques. NJ. Moron and NJ. Sales were
in despair as they viewed the wreck.
Wildly they rang for a messenger, and
dispatched him to the residence of the
Papadakis. He returned with the state
ment that the house was locked up and no
one was inside. Then it began to dawn
upon the minds of the cooks and the
walters as the hours flew by that the
Papadakis had also flown. They remem-
bered that they had been put off by
madame for several days with al. sorts of
excuses for the non-pavment of their
monthly salaries. They also remem bered
that for several days previously madame
had been opening and drinking all the ex-
pensive wines. They arrived at the con.
clusion that she was the author of the
wreck and that they had been left behind
to hold the sack.
'Sacre! exclaimed August, who Is the
head waiter, Eat woman ees, vat Won
call heem, Won yache-von beeg cow. ]
go TO hair for my wages and she saw.
August, you air my boy; l keepa your
mooney for Won moonth and you save
heem; you eata da plenty plate SOUP. Won
geta fat in da face lika me: you buy Won
fine suit; you be. ah! you be evair so
beeyoutifool.' eata da plenty plate
soup. she tell me - now | get toobful
I'm in, vat you call him, da tureen. Bette p'
And August smiled sadly as he thought
of the beautiful Papadaki and the vanish
iug $50 she so carefully boarded for him.
NJ. Moroni was in the kitchen, sorrow
ing, and his chief aide, NJ. Sale, was down
at the Stockton slip waiting patiently fol-
the appearance of the nefarious Paulina
The restaurant was taken in charge by
Michel Van Valves, who had leased 1t tc
the Papadaks. and is now being con.
Quoted under the direction of his uncle, D
G. Camerinos, from whom he first came
into possession of il. AS soon as news O.
the Papadakis is received warrants will b.
issued for their arrest on charges of larceny
and malicious mischief, and an effort viii
be made to have them toe the financia
mark.
Papadaki and his wife arrived in Sar
Francisco early in last July from Homo