The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-06-21

oight wien had a delicious Bavarian
cream for dessert, served in fruled pa
per cases. As usual my cooking was
being extolled when Tom passed me
one of the cases upside down on
spoon.
They really are much better than
those they have at the club" he said.
1.-The last had there were little
,heesy. These see are quite fresh"
Then / saw on the reverse of the
case the club monogram and the date.
1t was an awful moment"
at is always awfpl to be found out
said the Newspaper Girl. II recollect
once planning deliberate deception
and carrying it through almost with
entire success. II was his fault that we
were ever found out"
The silence grew intense. No matter
how desperate an experience the other
girls might relate the Newspaper Girl
was good for a worse one.
1T was when was war correspond
ent in Cuba" she began
"Oh, how eNciting!" said the FLUFFY
Girl. "Didyou penetrate to the interi-
or of the island?"
! AS 1ar as a restaurant on the Gull
road that runs out of Havana. 1t was
perilous undertaking"
Were you attacked?" asked the
Typewriter Girl.
mo; we were followed, but we threw
them off the scent or we thought we
did. You see there were seven Amer
| lean correspondents and was the only
girl and we were all great chums. You
see, and diped together each evening
and talked over the days news.
"One day Tommy Van Scoop called
| in and told me about this wonderful
| restaurant on the Gulf road. where you
| got chile con carne and flijoles and
| tomales and all those Spanish things,
81 suggested that we all make up
party for that evening and drive out
| for dinner But he said the dinner was
| never so good when there was crowd,
but if ! would like to go he said he
would take me out there. ] thought
| it would seem rather mean to leave out
the others, but he said we'd get back
Just as they were finishing dinner and
say we'd been off investigating rll-
| NOR.
"Wcll, about five o'clock we started
in a volantc. 1t was n beautiful after
noon and the Gulf road stretched out
before us in long unbrokcn miles shad-
edwth those great palms, the gorgeous
waters of the gulf coming up
"Spare us the scenery said the pres
ident; keep to crimes
1--WE had driven for nearly an hour
and Tommy was still enthusiastic
about the restaurant and how you had
dinner on balcony with roses growin2
over it when suddenly we heard the
rumbling of wheels behind us and look
ing back saw four volantcs coming
along slowly after us as though it were
funeral. Who do you think it was?"
| "Spanish,p2ies," said the Typewriter
Girl and the Medical Student at once.
"No-the other five correspondents.
and ! said they must have come as a
| joke, and we'd simply have to invite
them to 20 along. But he said he'd be
blessed if he'd ask them to come; that
they had no right to follow us in that
way. lie said to leave it to him, that
he'd put them or the track.
"Thcir carriage stopped when ours
did. and we turned around and when
we reached them they began to talk
about the beautiful afternoon it was
for Il drive, but Tommy said:
"Now. look here, boys-you may
think this is Il joke, but Miss Spaceratc
has a tip FROM the palace and if you
come along it will spoil everything. II
wasn't safe for her to come alone, SO
volunteered | shouldn't wonder il
| you'd given the whole thing away now.
Go back quietly, and We'll bring yor
the story in time for the cable"
"They never said word. Tommy
was n beautiful lara perfect genius
and he let his voice break as he called
after them to please notify the papers
if we were arrested or killed or any
thing. Then we went on and had the
dinner and drove back to the hotel at
1880. They were all solemnly finishing
dinner, and of course we had to act as
though we had had none. l said
wasn't hungry; but they made Tommy
take soup three times. Then he said:
"'There was nothing in that story,
after all. We waited an hour. Any
thing new here?'
"Thev helped him... to more soup.