Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-10-17
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The Romance of Midsumm

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The head waiter pressed a button in
the wall, and rose colored electric bulbs
blossomed like flowers upon the ceiling,
filling the great dining room with soft,
still radiance and showing the white ta-
bles surrounded with ornate high backed
chairs now elOquently empty. The air
from the avenue stirred the lace that
screened the open windows and made the
blooming marguerites in great, high tubs
about the room move on their fragrant
stems.
1t was barbarously early for dinner,
but ridiculously late for luncheon, but Il
had suited the mood Of the man and the
maiden who had met by accident and had
been spending delightfully."- unchaperon-
ed day in town. Besides that there were
trains to be taken back to a fashionable
resort, where breakfasts, luncheons and
dinners made such informal meetings
as this quite impossible. So. MS the girl
said, it was all the more fun They were
not even dressed for dinner, and the head
waiter, who was punctlious in such mat
tiers, glanced somewhat disapprovingly
ut the girls linen shirt waist and her
bamboo hat with its pouf of blue tilted
down over her brows. The man was q
well dressed, well tubbed specimen.
The room was almost deserted except
for these two, and the occasional cackle
of waiter was all that broke the silence
except their own discreetly lowered
voices. A small East Indian, pctur-
esquely turbaned and robed in white,
came toward their table, bearing a chat
Ing dish upon 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 of intense
satisfaction as she tasted the first NOR
eel. As the sun kissed hands moved
over her plate the man thought that she
was one Of the few women who ate
gracefully. As a rule, they were too
nonchalent or too en- husiastic But this
girls appetite had all the repression of
a Duse.
isn't 1t funny?" she said.
"Funny?"
"Why. of course. it's too funny for
ally thiAb. " VI Jul nitttiik W
accident. of all places, Mt church! Tell
newly did you so to church,"
ITO kill time. l suppose. Then the mu-
sic there is admirably good and the SER
mons
Admirably Short
Exactly. Why did you go?"
II always go. It's becoming a habit
with me. But ii is the very last place |
should have expected to see you. 1t Is a
remarkable coincidence that we should
have drifted there. Don't you think
things happen oddly at times?"
What kind of things?"
Condolences, for instance"
"Please don't call our meeting a mere
coincidence. l call it the result Of an
educated mind wave"
mind wavc?'
"Yes-a brain current. You know in
lndia"-
That's where you go hunting lions,
isn't it?"
"No-tigers in India"
But you hunt lions, too, don't your
"Never have. gave one run once,
though"
"Oh. how perfectly lovely. Tell me
about It."
at wouldn't interest you. You see.
was running first"
'Ha, ha, ha.''
Funny, isn't it? Well, In India, where
they live on this sort OF thing-rice and
chicken
"And sauterne?"
"Er-well-no animal food, you under
stand-they get their souls cultivated to
such an extent that they can communi-
cate with each other across long dis
tapces."
Anybody CAM"
"Oh, you must be educated up to II.
An American doesn't take 10 1t as quick
iy. but the natives believe in it. 1t is a
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. felt--felt''-
Jared
"No-chilled. just as though were I'M
der spell. He has such mysterious
eyes. Did you notice."
"Never notice men's eyes; waste OF
time"
"Ha. ha, ha. wish he would come
In again.
"He probably will"
flush"
What"
ooh. here he comes, He has another
dish"
Good"
Don't let US pretend to notice. Yes,
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