Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-09
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make it necessary for me to visit sew
eral more bars before my great affair
is concluded. This will take some
I time, and if you are hungry
The prince interrupted him with 4
polite gesture.
MY friend and 1 will accompan:
you" he said, ''for we have already Il
deep interest in your very agreeable
mode Of passing an evening. And now
that the preliminaries of peace are set
tied. allow me to sign the treaty for
! both"
And the prince swallowed the tart
with the best grace imaginable. .~
ut is delicious" said he.
II perceive you are a connoisseur,"
| replied the young man.
Colonel Geraldine likewise did honor
| having now either accepted or refused
| his delicacics the young man with the
cream tarts led the way to another and
similar establishment. The two COM
missionaries. who seemed to have
grown accustomed to their absurd en-
ployment, followed immediately after,
and the prince and the colonel brought
/ to each other us they went. I'm this
order the company visited two other
| taverns, where scenes were enacted Of
T like nature to that already described
some refusing. some accepting, the
| favOrs Of this yagab0nd hospitality,
/ and the young man himself eating
each rejected tart.
man counted his store. There were
but nine remaining, three in one tray
| and six in the other.
"Gentlemen," said he, addressing
himself to his two followers. II am I'M
willing to delay your supper. I am
positively sure you must be hungry. I
feel that owe you special considera-
ton. And on this great day for me,
when am closing career Of folly by
! my most ccnspicuously silly action. I
wish to behave. handsomely to all who
give me countenance. Gentlemen, you
shall wait no longer, Although my
constitution is shattered by previous
excuses, at the risk of my life liqui-
date the: suspensory condition.
With these words he crushed the nine
remaining tarts into his mouth and
swallowed them at a single movement
each; then, turning to the commission
| naires. he gave them couple Of sover-
eigns.
II have to thank you," said he, tfor
your extraordinary patience"
And he dismissed them with a bow
| apiece. For some seconds he stood look
| ing at the purse from which he had
| just paid his assistants; then, with a
| laugh, he tossed it into the middle of
! the street and signified his readiness
| for supper.
| In small French resta urant in Soho,
which had enjoyed All exaggerated rep
| utation for some little while. but had
| already begun to be forgotten, and in a
J private room up two pairs of stairs the
! three companions made very elegant
supper and drank three or four bottles
of cha mpa gne. ia liking the while upon
Indifferent subjects. The young man
was fluent and gay, but he laughed
louder than was natural in person of
polite breeding his hands trembled VIC
| lently, and his voice took sudden and
! surprising infections, which seemed to
be independent OF his will. The dessert
had been cleared away and all three
had lighted their cigars when the
| prince addressed him in these words:
You will. I am sure, pardon my GU
! riosity What l have seen OF you has
greatly pleased me, but even more puz-
zled me, and, though l should be loatl'
! to seem indjscreet, l must tell you that
my friend and l are persons very well
worthy to be intrusted with a secret. We
have many OF our own. which we are
continually revealing to improper ears
and if, as suppose, your story is a silly
one, sou need have no delicacy with u.s.
who are two of the silliest men in Eng
land. Ny name is Godall-Theophilus
Godall; my friend is Major Alfred
Hammersmith. or at least such is the
name by which he chooses to be known
! We pass our lives entirely in the search
for extra IVA CANT adventures, and there
IN no extravaganza with which We are
not capable Of sympathy.'
II like you. Mr.. Godall," returned
! the young man. You inspire me with
4 natural confidence, and l have MOI
the slightest objection to your frien
the jor. whom l take to lie a noble
man in masquerade; at least am sure
he is no soldier
The colonel smiled at this compli
ment to the perfection of his art, ant
the young man went OIL in a more ami
mated manner:
"rhere is every reason why SHOULD
not tell you my story. Perhaps that il
just the reason why am going to d.
20; at least, you seem so we'll pre-
pared to hear a tale of Stiffness that
cannot find it in my heart to disap
point you. My name, in spite of you
example, l shall keep to myself. NJ!
age is not essential to the narrative.
am descended from ING ancestors b,
ordinary generation, and from them
Inherited very eligible human tene
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