New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-03-21
FLIP"

tuIo StOOu dG luz degrees r. In the up
per room Of house in Lima ssol.
"Oh, dash it all, Villiers, that's the
third time in the last 20 minutes! Fin
ish ecarte for me tonight. Let's go onto
the veranda. How hot it is, and how
old Flip is snoring-quite apoplectic!''
The speaker threw down his hand and
passed his fingers YEARLY through his
tumbled hair. His opponent, Villiers,
pushed back his hair, with a yawn, and
started drumming the DEVILS tattoo on
the table, while the sleeper snored more
alphabetically than ever, and he vino
had watched the fall of the cards fin
ished off his drink and shouted:
"Vasilli!'
"Sair!"
wake up, you child of bondwom-
an, and bring me large brandy and
soda, with plenty of snow in 1.-THE
cleanest you can get-d'you hear1''
"Or-right, sair.''
The sleeper muttered in his dreams.
"Poor old Flip-dreaming, always
dreaming of that heartless Jezebel, :"
said Villiers as the trio moved out on
the veranda.
Then spake he who had called for
drink and whose name was Jones-plain
Jcnes-and said:
Il have never quite got to the bottom
of that affair. Old Flip only spoke to
me on the subject, and that very sketch
lily, as we were riding through the pass
to Cophino. Do you know the rights of
the matter, Fidus Achates?''
'Oh, yes" answered Villiers.
"Then tell us the story
"Wait till the drink comes and
you We stopped your mouth with another
cigar, and then will, though it's too
hot almost to parley."
AS he spoke be threw himself into an
easy chair, an example which was
speedily followed by his companions.
Presently the Greek serving boy reap
peared with the iced fluid. He did not
Immediately retire, and on ViI]iers an
grily asking him what he was waiting
for he replied hesitatingly in his broken
pigeon English:
"Kalitsa gunia, signor, comey to me
and say, 'Inglese signor, Harvey, being
here?' Me say, Yes signora say,
Go telly me, signora, Inglese signora,
VANITY see-savey?' Me say, 'Or-1ight,'
and go plenty quick bring soda water.
Me coming back presently after by M
by, plenty quick me coming finish sig
nora!'
"Oh, get along! You've been drink
ing too much vino, you scoundrel!"
mo, me no drinky vino Me'--
"Oxo!' snapped Villiers, and the
Greek withdrew.
AS he passed through the adjoining
room the sleeper moved uneasily and
muttered a woman's name
"You heard that?' inquired the teller
OF tales. well, that's the keynote.
AS far as remember it was eight years
ago and during Ascot week that the
trouble began. Flip had been just three
months engaged to Lily Fane-ever met
the Fanes Of Ridley Manor?- they
were to be married in the autumn.
Flip-you'd hardly know him now for
the ardent, impulsive old fool he was
then-worshiped the very ground she
trod upon, while she was nothing but
heartless, grasping, scheming''-
STEADY over the stones," drawled the
hope of all the Joneses.
Then Villiers, with short laugh:
Rather a waste Of words perhaps
where one would suffice. She was
woman, and can any good thing come
from woman?
We'll, to the point. For q mere ca
price, arising from an arrogant bet that
she could do with Flip as she liked, and
you know old Flip's pretty hard nut
to crack, she told him after lunch on
the cup day that he must 20 abroad at
tne END OF the week and not return an
til week before their wedding, which
was to take place, believe, on Nov.
~. VI course he took it as joke, but
that night she again repeated her e1trav-
agant demand, saying she was really
in earnest; that some one had doubted
If his love for her would carry him
such lengths at her expressed desire.
Did he fly into furious passion. q
would you or I or any sane man? Nota
bit. Like the infatuated fool hs was, 10
said it was very hard. but that Il she
really wished such extraordinary p1oo6
OF the adsction she should never doubt,
and 20 on. The long and short rf it ~
the end Of the week saw hin At lobait.=
Carlo. OF oonIss kewent II 1pr i ft33e
futter, inst for some. % { do.
Equally, Of course, he won. He isisl
again, and again Ae won. Thea tho
FEVER took him. and he played.
He was very comfortably on md %
had no excuse for plunging . IS did,
and It it hadn't been for that seeu1sei
gsrl he might have been : happy, pros
p Aous country gentleman today instead
81 a wreck in the government se-viee On