St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-04-07

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smiling amiably. 81 only wish I were
as rich as some of these pinheads that
don'G know what to do with their
money-if you wouldn't have thumf
rings and automobiles and couple o
thousand silk skirts, and-oh, by the
made dress in a window as I was
walking downtown to-day that want
you to have. Sign on it says that it's
Paris model and that it's been
marked down from $85 to $50. Don't
know whether that's true or not, but
it's a dandy, and l want you to get
your things on after dinner and We'll
go down and have look at it. It's
made out o. some kind o. black stuff.
with a lot of this here frizzy-wizzy.
spangley stuff splattered all over the
waist and skirt dunno if / can give
you any idea of it, but I'll bet a hat
you'll like it. We can look it oyer
this evening, and tomorrow you can
go down and buy it. It'll just about
fit you, should say, from the looks
of it."
Mrs. Jobson was stunned.
"Why, you darling old"
'By the way, you might as wea tog
out in your best tonight said Mr.
Jobson, interrupting her. "Got a
couple of seats for the theater, and
after the show we'll have bite at
WELL any place you want to go. Wen
just make little night of it. How's
that?" @
Mrs. Jobson went upstairs and put
on her things in trance. She was al.
NEST in tears.
IL don't know what in the world I'd
do if anything was the matter with
the dear, lovely old"
Here her mind wandered into specu.
lation over the strange happenings OF
the afternoon and evening. She got
herself up in her best, and when she
descended the stairs Mr.. Jobson, him.
self decked out in his evening clothes
rewarded her with a gaze of admira.
ton.
"By Jove, you do look nice, my
sdear!" he exclaimed, quite enthusias.
tIuolly. "I'll bet there won't be a
woman in the theater looking half Sc
spick and span," and he gave her a
regular old-fashioned kiss.
Mrs. Jobson spent the next few
hours like woman in dream. The
play was excellent, and Mr.. Jobson
was the soul of good nature. He said
clever things to her, and even made
surreptitious love to her between the
acts. After the play they went to the
hotel cafe and had Newburged lob
sters, with sparkling liquid accompani.
ment. Then Mr.. Jobson put her into
a stylish rubber-tired hanson, and
they bowled home.
MY DEAR" said Mrs. Jobson, plead.
ingly, won't you tell me now why
you've been SO perfectly love-
A foxy expression crept into Mr.. Job.
sons face, which she caught as the
hanson passed under an arc light.
We'll, I'll tell you, my DEAR" said
Mr.. Jobson. II was rummaging in the
trunks in the storeroom last night,
wasn't I? Member that navy blue
serge suit that wore when we went tc
Atlantic City last summer? Well, in
digging through the pockets Of that
suit found two twenties and a ten
that you'd overlooked. The bills were
in an inside pocket Of the vest. II
missed that money when we were down
at the beach, but thought I'd lost it |
and so I didn't say anything about il !
TO you. Well, seeing as how you'd over.
looked all that real, sure-enough
money" concluded Mr.. Jobson, with a
crafty smile, Il thought that you were
entitled to a good time out of it, any.
how, and" I!
Mrs. Jobson's face during this re.
cital was a study.
'Well,'' she said calmly, when Mr.
Jobson hesitated in his enjoyment OF
the situation, 81 have had perfectly
lovely time, and have no complaint tc |
make. But those two twenties and the
ten were the bills that you gave me tc
put in the bank the day before yester.
day. didn't go to the bank, because il |
was raining too hard, and I put then
in that vest for safe keepirg!"-Wash
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