The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-14

of the season, you know, darling. It's
sure, almost, to rain, and / certainly
risk a serious pneumonia, but for TO-
600 francs; and for once, at any rate,
1 am bound to go with him.
ssDo as YOU think best, dearest
Business before everything, always-
Only you viii not return too later
mo, at 10 o'clock, sharp. The last
train leaves Versailles at IL He'll
hold, to a dead certainty. that fellow.
to seeing everything to an end"
''But for such a good client one
must endure it,
.'How good you are, da-linzl But
you will not be lonesome. Happily
your people will be with you to keep
you company"
''No, should only miss you the
more. shall 60 to mamma, / think
for the evening. if you do not mind
"a happy thought, my Adelet Bave
you no others, perhaps?"
And thus the brigand caioled and
embraced her, and the delicate ES6le
point that had given Moisinel such
trouble and bordering to properly ar
range had arranged itself in the
twinklinR of an eye and wiohouo tbs
slightest hitch or difficulty.
Sunday arrived; the program de-
clCcu upon was d9TeG4DlW carried DuE
by Moisine1-the trip to Chavi1e for
violets first; the dinner, LATER on, at
the Cafe Richie.
A dinner very jolly and familiar,
the pretty little dressnalSer was full OF
spirits and gay jokes. and the dinner
and the jokes were both we'll washed
down with plenty of good wine. which
added considerably very naturally, to
the ordinary spirit of such occasions.
But this was not the only conse-
quence of the washing down The
wines of the Cafe Richie and other res-
taurants of its kind are fully as high
in price as they are excellent in quail
ity. MoisineIs stock of small bills
was soon exhausted. He was a pru-
dent man; a thousand franc note was
too big a sum to trust to the hands OF
a garcon he did not know; briefly, he
must go himself to the cashiers desk
to change it to coin. merely an alb
sence of minute or two from his
charmer's side.
And firm in the thrifty and cautious
habits of a lifetime of business exacti-
tude, and in spite of the brunette's
chatting suspicion that he intended 10
leave her in the 1urch there to foot
the bill, Moisinel held to his deter
mination and the door of cabinet IS
temporarily closed upon him
In the interval, while changing his
bill, Moisinel was busily thinking,
mentally drawing contrasts between
the plump brunette and "his Adele"
not entirely favorable to the former.
She was distinctly little vulgar with
her loud laughter and still louder an
ecdotes-
1t was not ''his Adele" that spoke a
language like this-''his AdeleP' and
to think that he should deceive such
an angell Rascal Scamp Sca1lawagi
He had had enough of it already. He
would never recommence, never, on
his word of honorl
All the same, he must now return
TO the little one; he was not the vie
comte OF ner IrIeno OF UHe vUr1AsuUp,
no! And the cabinet-ah, behold ib
before him-No. 1871 And Moisine1, as
he spoke, turned the handle. Three
cries simultaneously resounded.
The first from the waiter, who, too
late, clamored: 'Stop, stop, pleas 81
Monsieur deceives himself That is
not 13, but No. 1877
The other two cries were uttered BY
the guests of cabinet 13, into which.
he found himself, all unwittinRlv,
making this brusque interruption and
deranging an obviously very tender
interview.
The gentleman had roared;
''Sa-a-cre bleur'
The lady shriexed:
"Ciel! My husbandP
And her husband, for fact, the
lady being no other than chs Adele
thus occupying the leisure time left
upon her hands by the springtime
fugue of her lord and master. Drawn
by the stir and cutlery, the occupants
of the other cabinets had run to the
spot. and there, among them, ran the
little brunette of No. 1s.
But the pencil of simple chronicles
renounces picturing the scene that
followed. How have they settled IT,
you ask2 In the only way it was pos
sible to settle it-Moismel and his
wife have decided to pardon each
other; a sort of double-entry case Of
forgiveness, you know, upon one con-
dition-that each has day Of going
out, but the same day, and always to-
ENTHUSIASTICALLY.