Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-11
A MORSE FILTRATION.


said division inspector for one Of the
telegraph companies. in the Washing
Ton Star, 4 found myself Involuntary
eavesdrGpFine on an innocent Iittle
Morse Irritation.
1t happened in the dining eaf
There We're only three Of Us to re.
spoHd to the last can fer diHaer. Tn
girl SAT alone at the table across tn
aisle from mine. Fer all thai she va
obviously a business girl, she Was as
pretty and graceful aud groomcd 4
a show apple in the window of a fancy
fruit shop. The man who sat at the
table behind her, with the back Il
his chair all but touching hers. was y
peasonable MISUNDERSTANDING clap
OF thirty or ~o--type of the husthn@,
alert young man Of business.
AS We three We're the last to avail
ourselves of the dinner, all of the
walters except one had gone off duty
and hung np their aprons. The re
manning waiter took the orders of tn
three of lis in bunch and then dis
appeared into The diner kitchen. He
was gone an unreasonably long time
Probably the cook hadn't expected any
responses to the last call, and had to
begin all over again The young We
man was the first of us to how impa
tience. She didn't look peevish over
the walters long absence, but she
sighed YEARLY several times and rest
ed her rIatty chin in the palms Of
ler hands and sazod drearily out OF
the window. could see that she was
a mite rritated over the walters pro
onaed absence in the kitchen.
Then, OIL of the corner of ny
eye was passing away the time by
elancino over the headlines of a news
ppe9-I W=her pick up her knife IN
an abastraeted sert of Nay. The
water jug was right beside the place
from which She picked UP the l1nfe.
In an unconscious sort of way
She began To tap OBJ the side of The
water bottle with the end Of lho klifa.
This is what sho tapped:
Blame that waiter,
Tho young fellow seated behind
her instantly chirked up. tie, too,
had a newspaper spread oal in front
% hin. and until the tapping on the
<.ater bot1le began he looked extreme
y bored Al that sound, however. he
looked up from the paper and 2aze
straight ahead of him, his face screN-
cd into an expression OF keen atteAz
tion.
The young woman dropped hef
knife impaGcntly as soon as she haa
tanpeI her mild objurgation CT the
waiter ON the bottle. The young man
Instantly picked up his knife. This IS
what he tapped. Morsewise. and with /
a good deal of speed and finish, on his
water bottle:
".Thanks. Same here, But why
blame? That lets him down too
eas W.
I'd was the young woman,s turn to
emerge suddenly from her oofea |
stage She flushed slightly ana a |
smile lurked around the corners OF hef
mouth. but she didn't turn her heaa.
..Tbe Young man hadn't fwistea
.hont in his chair to look at her, eith-
or Mighty self-contained young peo=
ple. thought She picked up he'
l.nife again as soon as his tapping
ceased
".Well, hang him then she tap
red.
"'Not strong enough yet, liz tapped
in quick reply Want me to say it? +
Il might help some
'''Please don't she tapped. almost
breaking i'll upon him. I hate pre-
family
We'll, that was a pretty good start.
| kept my eyes on my paper looking
as innocent as | could. They went
ahead with that water jug converse
tion for Is minutes more before the
waiter appeared with our dinners.
But they never even once turned to
iook at each other. | have a shreWd
suspicion that they'd surveyed each
other sort of casually before sitting
down.
"She tapped that she was perishine +
for food, because she'd been compelled
to race for train that day without
breakfast 1t was the same will him
be tapped in reply. He had oyersept
himself, and had only made the train
by an eyelash.
When the waitet at length brought
the food they went ahea and ate, T
occasionally taking up their knives 10
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