The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-05-05

he would go right out and propose to
her. The salad dressing was just as
good MS the chef at the Uplate club
madel"
"But I had to confess finally one
night when I had O delicious Bavarian.
cream for dessert, served in frilled pa
per cases. AS usual my cooking was
being extolled when Tom passed me
one of the cases upside down on a
spoon.
''They really r much better than
those they have at the club, he said.
THE lasbI had there were a little
cheesy. These I see are quite fresh"
'Fhen I saw on the reverse Of the
case the club monogram and the date.
1t was an awful momentl"
1T is always awful to be found out,
said the Newspaper Girl. 81 recollect
once planning a deliberate deception
and carrying it through almost with
entire success. It 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
wa good for a worse one.
TT was when Twas war corresponds
emit in Cuba" she began
ooh, how e~xciting!" said the Fluffy
Girl. did you penetrate to the interi-
OF Of the island?"
"As lar as a restaurant OF the Gulf
road that runs out of Havana. 1t was
a perilous undertaking."
Were you attacked" asked the
Typewriter Girl.
"No; we were followed, but we threw
them off the scent or we thought we
did. You see there were sever Amer
lean correspondents and I was the only
girl and we were all great chums, you
see, and dined together each evening
and talked over the days news.
zone day Tommy Van Scoop called
in and told me about this wonderful
restaurant on the Gulf road, where you
got chile con, carne and f~ilijoIes and
tomales and all those Spanish things.
81 suggested that we all make up a
party for that evening and drive out
for dinner. But he said the dinner was
never so good when there was a crowd,
but if I would like to go he said he
would take me out there. I 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 a ru-
NOR.
'Well, about five o'clock we started
in a volante. It was a beautiful after.
loon and the Gulf road stretched out
before us in long Unbroken miles shad,
edwiththos great palms, the gorgeous
waters of the gulf coming up"
Spare us the scenery said the pres.
ident: keep to crimes"
eve had driven for nearly an hour
and Tommy was still enthusiastic
about the restaurant and how you had
dinner on a balcony with roses growing
over it when suddenly we heard the
rumbling of wheels behind us and look.
ing back saw four volantes coming
along slowly after us as though it were
a funeral, Who do you think it was 2"
Spanish spies" said the Typewriter
Girl and the Medical Student at once.
"No-the other five correspondents,
and I said they must have come as a
joke, and we'd simply have to invite
them to go 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. He said to leave it to him, that
he'd put them off the track.
''Their 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 a drive, but Tommy said:
Now, look here, boys-you may
think this is a joke, but Miss SpaCerate
has a tip from the palace and if you
come along it will spoil everything. It
wasn't safe for her to come alone, so !
volunteered. 1 shouldn't wonder if
you'd given the whole thing way now.
Go back quietly, and We'll bring you
the story in time for the cable"
'They never said a word. Tommy
was a beautiful lara perfect genius
and he let his voice break as he called
after them to please notify the papers
II 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 solemnIy finishing
dinner, and of course we had to act as
though we had had none. I said I
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. Anv.
thing new here?'
"They helped him to more SCUM.
Then some one said: How was the ONE
let tonight? They usually make them
very good over there?' Then 1 broke
down and confessed, but not until he
began to laugh over his fourth plate.
If he had only kept on looking serious
and eating soup 1 could have stood it.
But he weakened first
The Newspaper Girl sat down amid a
decided hush and the usual vote was
taken. The president rose and said,
solemnly:
W. all unanimously agree that this
is the meanest kind OF a fraud that was
ever attempted, and the supper of lob
ster newburg viii be cooked and served
by the Newspaper Girl."-N. Y. Sun.
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