Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-01-27

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was a lovely headdreSSr
Marcel said al of this in jerky
saccato, absent fashion, as if his mind
was quite in another direction The
atteLdant listened with marked defer
ence and then said:
Exactly, monsieur, l begin to un4er-
stand: but the style of hcaddresS
please
oh, capuehon believe you call
it,"
"Corn-color, or ivory-white. mon,
Sieu:"
Neither. madame; it was 4 delicate
blue and on head. / saw it in the
window there, but which now" Mar
eel remarked, his eyes rowing search
ingly from side TO side. Il do not see
it in the shop anywhere
But. know, monsieur what you
require"
Then. madame, if youl he good
enough 20 show us the head wen be
able to tell you at once"
Quite unnecessary. monsieur; we
can find it without that; besides the
head to which monsieur refers is alb
sent at this moment"
Absent Madame-the head"
Yes, monsieur. it is being being
dressed, you know"
Very well, then, Wen wait and see
it."
That will be useless, monsieur; the
head will be seen no more this even
ing; but the engravings OF the styles
are here I'll get them for you, and
l am sure"
NO, the mere fashion plates don't
do at all l could tell nothing from
them; Wen come again later on when
the head is here" And not staying for
further argument, Marcel and Leopold
departed
"Well?" and "Well 2" rose IN a choru,
from all the tables when the friends
returned to the club, a little crestfallen
at their bootless GRAND.
I'VE didn't see her She's gone to
bed, they asserted.
Before separating that night Marcel
and Leopold made an engagement 10
meet again before the coiffeurs win.
dow at o'clock the following even
ing. This time they were sure of not
being too late
Positively, Leopold, she's prettiei
| than ever" Marcel cried, cxcitedly
when few moments later his friend
arrived.
Marcel had come first and awaited
the other "A little more color per
hapS, than when / saw her last; tht
eyes, too, trihe more languishing
but did You ever in this world see
a figure as pretty rs this?"
Not so lifelike, either" Leopold
assentcd, stirred for once from hi
usual stolid calm why the very
nostrils seem TO dilate and the lip,
actually TO smile, as if about to speak
What perfection Of mechanism"
And presently" Marcel continued
IF we wait long enough Wen see hel
! walk She is only on Wow for an hour
they told me about it today. WheI
the gas is extinguiShed the Ggur,
melts, rs it were. The gas comes VI
again, and pouf!- like the stage q
the theatcr the window is empty
again"
And as Marcel had said, presently
down went the gas, it hickered foebry
came up again and the window con
tanned only the velvet dralcry.
Not only the club, but an Alg,crs, "A
one sheep follows another over tn,
fence until tie whole flock has passed
talked Of the charming figure in tn,
Rue Bab-Azoun, But the eagerness O
the city changed nothing in the habits
OF the hairdrcSser's shop; the prett!
head, i'm her coquettish capuchon face
with delicate shade yieux-rose, show
ed herself neither more nor less oftel
in her crimson and crystal caging
and, worse than all for the curious
ones, when they entered the shop anC
demanded of the majestic shopwomaI
a nearer view Of the wonderful image
she answered firmly and invariabl,
that the key was not in her possession
and blandly pointed to the side of tn,
room, impenetrably inclosed to tn,
ceiling behind stout wooden pauellinG
Marcel made up his mind one morn
ing and entered the shop with a within
steal determination TO purchase TN
beautiful object OF his desire, no mat
ter at what cost The attendan
sought to sell him everything in tn
shop but that which he had come e
purchase. Marcel was not to be turne,
FROM his purpose.
NO" he said, lit is the head l want
1t Is superior work Of art, and In
willing to pay handsomely for it,
The saleswoman declared that sh
had no authority to negotiate sue
a sale,
TO whom, then, madam" persistc
Marcel shall l address myselfE'
ITO the master, monsieur though
warn you it will be useless, for he vii
not part with it,"
1--WE shall see, and when can th
master be SEEM
Impossible to say, monsieur II
. [ rroos o7Yt avpry morning and does no