The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-09-11

FELICIANA gAw TONES ADMIRING GAZE.
was as Indispensable as the wedding
garment of the man in the Bible para
BILE, the holy week shirt
"Prudencio," said Don Eduardo, lis
1t time for the holy week shirt al
ready"
Isl, senior, it is, and besides I am 60
ing to marry on Easter Monday Fe-
liciana, maid to the Sonora Americana
Wyse."
Don Eduardo did not offer congratu-
latiOns. He merely handed months
| wages to Prudencio and nodded to sig
| Nifty that was the end of it. Pruden-
| clos little mouth did not relax quicker
| Of it's dignity. The occasion was too
| solemn. He murmured in choice Ia
gallo Spanish his most stilted thanks
and backed out of the presence with
his tray of plates.
| Prudencio got garment that would
make even Tagalo eyes bulge with en-
Wy. and they are connoisseurs in holy
week shirts. Prudencio's was of pima
cloth, fine. firm and lustrOus, like a
| transparent mohair gauZe. 1t was en-
broidered all over in silk with pink
flowcrs-pink, the color of lOve-and 1t
was long, reaching almost to Pruden-
| clos knees. His trousers. on the other
hand. ended half way between knee
and ankle, but trousers We're of infe-
rior consideration. Any bifurcated
garment. old or new, would do. The
shirt was the whole thing. The shirt
was "it."
Then appeared on the scene Tomas.
Tomas was the valet and factotum
Of /; captain Americana and had pick
ed up smart Yankee slang and ways
He wore his shirt inside his trousers
at least on the street. He was Tomas
with Il long Spanish 90 but his master
called him Tome for short. Tome saw
the beautiful Fclicana one day wher
she sat ON the front seat of Il stree
car smoking long black Manila ci
gar. There was Il gracclunrSS ever
in the way She putfcd the smoke from
her cigar that, as il were, took tn,
heart right ont of him. Tome LOOKED
and loved.
By the beautiful FclicianaS side 81
her hetrothrd, rrudcncio. with his dry
solemn face and mouth like n hole III
blanket He held Il parcel IL whic
was his Easter and wedding shirt
Feliciaua saw Tones admiring gaZ
and half returned il, Prudcncio SAY
it, too: SAW likewise Ecliriana's al
swcrinS little uipp"d off glance, an
scowlcu like II thundcrcloud.
Hes got II black heart in him fo
me-" said Tome To himself.
prudcncio likewise said things
himself Wait till after Easter Moi
day" quotha. as who should say, "Af
err that let her look at "A man if sh
dares''
| The car stopped as usual at II
| switch while the little brown driv,
| and conductor got out and sat in Il
| shade near by to eat their lunch Son
| of the patient passengers left the c:
| and stood in the shade too. The Sc
I on the other side of the beautiful Fe
| ciuna thus became empty. Tome spral
I into it, He saw the delicately wrapp'
: parcel carried 10y Prudencio. From
chink in the paper the pink cmbroidc
n peeped out. Tome comprehended teI
Il | patlllctilN. lTuueutlo SEQ" ieu INV iui
IN No matter. He could not see VIII
g. took place on the other side of Fe
is ciana. Tome was handsome; he W
III gallant; he was daShing and bold
10 Tagalo Lochinvar. Prudencio was no
in Of these. When has there been wo
al an who would not want TO run aw
,s from a man like Prudencio with N
on like Tome!
IN To Lochinvar. brown skim
,et though he be, opportunities are L
,is lacking AS for woman-a WON
ed can always make opportunities.
de was within less than a week of I
nm wedding when Tome and Felicia
$50 first spied each other on the poky, ri,
Nv. ETY., scandalous old Malate street c
clio They improved the time, and luck W