The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1900-09-15
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The Romance OF Midsummer
= Luncheon In Town. Z
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room with soft, still radiance and show
ing the white tables surrounded with
ornate high-backed chairs, now e~lo-
qucntly erupty. The air from the av-
enuc stirred the lace that screenedthe
open windows and made the blooming
marguerites in great high tubs about
the room move on their fragrant Stems.
1t was harbarously early for dinner,
but ridiculously late for luncheon, but
it had suited the mood of the mari'and
the maiden who had met by accident
and had been spending delightfully."-
unchaperoned day in town. Besides
that there were trains to be taken back
to fashionable resort, where break
fasts. luncheons and dinners made Such
informal meetings as this quite impos-
sible. So, as the girl said, it was all
the more fun. They were not even
dressed for dinner and the head waiter,
who was punctilious in such matters.
glanced somewhat disapprovingly at
the girls linen shirt waist and her
bamboo hat with pouf of blue, tilted
down over her brows. The man. was a
well-dressed, well-tubbed specimen.
The room was almost deserted except
for those two ard the occasional cackle
of waiter was all that broke the si-
lence except their own discreetly low
cred voices. A small East Indian man
picturesque,y turbaned and robed in
white came toward their table bearing
chafing dish upon a silver tray from
which he served them noiselessly with
rice and chicken while waiter poured
wine into two pale greenish glasses.
The service had all the dignity and
importance of a rite.
The girls face took on look df in
tense satisfaction as she tasted thefirst
morse. AS her sun-kissed hands moved
over her plate the man thoughtsthat
she was one of the few women who ate
gracefully. AS a rule, they were too
ponchalant or too enthusiastic: = But
this girls appetite had all thesrepres-
sion of a Duse. -
isn't 1t funny?" she said.
"Funny?"
"Why. of course, it's too funny for
Hnythingl To think of our meeting.
by accident, of all places, at church.
Tell newly do you go to church?"
ITO kill time, l suppose. Then the
music there is admirably good and the
sermons"
Admirably shorti" :
"ExactlyI Why did you go7"
81 always go. It's become habit
with me. But ii is the very last place
i should have expected to see you. 1t
is remarkable coincidence that we
should have drifted there. Don't you
think things happen oddly at times?"
What kind of things?"
"Coincidences-for instance?"
''Please don't call our meeting mere
coincidence. ] call it the result Of an
educated mind wave"
'.Afind wave?' -
"Yes-a. brain current. You know
In India"
That's where you go hunting lions,
isn't it %
''No-tigers in India.'
"But youhunt lions, too-don't your"
"Never have. gave one a run once,
though"
"oh, how perfectly lovelyl Tell me
about it."
1T wouldn't interest you. You see,
was running first"
'.Ha! ha! hal"
Sunny, wasn't it? Well, in India.
where they live on this sort of thing
rice and chicken"
"And sauterne?"
"Er-well-no animal food-you IN
derstand-they get their souls eulti-
waited to such an extent that they can
communicate with each other across
long distances"
Anybody CAM"
"Oh, you must be educated up to it.
An American doesn't take to il as
quickly, but the natives believe IN It.
1t is part of their religion. They can
perform all sorts of magical tricks. /
have no doubt that the man who cooks
this-the little chap in the turban--
talks without words
II noticed he didn't speak. And do
you know-as he moved about so still
and quiet-I felt-felt--" w%
"Jarred?"
No-cnllleu-Just- as though were |
under spell. He has such mysterious
eyes. Did you notice?v
Never notice mems eyes. Waste of
time
"Ha! ha! ha! wish he would come
In againl"
He probably will" s..
"Hushi"
"what?'
"oh-here he comcsl he has another |
DISH
Good"
Don't let us pretend to notice. Yes.
Gs you were saying. quite agfee:witb |
you, that the day has been a pleasant |
one-but what would people think If |
they came in and found us dining to- |
getLer-at five o'clock. I. in a sailor |
hat-you-"
''In sailor hat also"
sAnd Chappy-"
"Twenty miles awayi"
'But If we hadn't met--sh-hl He's
gone away! Never spoke syllable. |
M-m-ml This is another of those |
soul foods It's the ssme, but different. |
wonder what 1t is?
suppose we ask him?''
"No. it might break the spell. Look |
or the card. 1t must be there some |
place"
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