Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-04-22
Nay Dawson to- come and stay with
ydAll and Nonsnlll get along all right

Curtis I'm not thinking about my
self I'm thinking about you, l dou't
see how you are going to get along.
am .afrlhd you can't stand the cook
ing You know that since | have been
doing my own work you cam t@bear to
eat away from home. and hotels do
serve such VIGOROUSLY bad meals.
James Randolph flushed guilty.
That's so,' he said, with a sldelong
glapce of curiosity.
Mrs. Curtis led the way to the dining
ROOM, and James Randolph followed
meekly. ''The only hope | see for
you" she said presently, lis In your
Scranton visit You can stop at Hor-
ace Perkins while you are there. OF
course. | don't know anything about
Kate's housekeeping. She used to be
reprehensibly lazy as girl, but pre-
sumo marriage has brought her out OF
some OF her bad habits. And, any
way. she'll have servants and even II
she shouldn't have, what you do get to
eat will be home cooking and will
agree with you better than the slabs
OF heavy food they serve at hotels and
| restaurants"
James Randolph looked uncomfort-
able, as If already smitten with an ad-
vance instament of the inevitable dy-
spepsia. Its very kind of you,"4 he
said, ito take such an abiding interest
In my digestion, but | don't see how
can accommodate you. I"don't like to
| stop at Perkins. It. doesn't look well.
He Is the man | am going to strike
for the biggest pile of money while
am gone, and 1t looks hoggish to soak
him for several hundred thousand dol
| lars worth of stock and live" off him at
the same time. It's adding insult to
injury -
II don't know anything about the
injury you propose to infict," returned
Mrs. Curtis, but do know that Kate
and Horace would be insulted II you
were In Scranton for week and did
not stay with them. I'll write to Kate
to-day and tell her you are coming.
am sure she will write you to be their
guest" -
J James Randolph demurred yolubly
and with spirit, but his demonstration
of disapproval was ineffective. That
night the disconnected correspondence
with Cousin Kate was renewed with
fervor. Two days later an answer was
received, and when James Randolph
left Philadelphia on the following Mon
day it was the understanding all
around that during his stay in Scran-
ton he would accept the hospitality of
Mr.. Horace Perkins
T. The Horace Perkinses lived in style
1t was made plain to James Randolph
during his first meal that there was no
danger of his going hungry while I'M
der their roof. and that II his stomach
suffered. 1t would be from overstimula-
ton rather than the lack of it. James
Randolph rejoiced in the. gastronomic
abundance provided and the excellence
thereof on his wife's account as well
MS on his own. 80
| THE dear girl will he delighted to
know that am so we'll taken care of"
| he said to Cousin Kate. 81 must write
at once and tell her how | am fixed,
| otherwise she will be worrying herself
| sick for fear | am starving to death"
| Notwithstanding the business acu-
men which Mr., Smith battered himself
| he had discerned in James Randolph,
| that young man was in some respects
| a simple soul Never was 'fhis inno-
cence more blatantly displayed than
| I'm his letter to Mrs Curtis.
| 81 am living on the very fat OF the
land" he wrote. = Your Cousin. Kate
| may have been rather lackadaisical
| when a girl. but she has certainly de-
veloped into a remarkable houselxeep-
err. I shall try TO tell you what we had
! for dinner last night We had some
kind of soup with little green specks
| floating in It'll forget the name of it
I,two or three kinds of meat. with APP
propriate vegetables; a pudding. the
recipe for which must have been
| CLEANED from the angels, and coffee
that might hsrve been brewed in heav-
en-. don't believe Philadelphia could
show better menu than that. Really,
| Minnie. you ought to See me eat, NV
appetite must astonlsh the PerLlnses
| They probably think. that | tasted for
several weeks before coming to Scran-
ton. am sorry that I shalt wind up
the business here In week or ten
days shall hate TO leave | think
would get Tat n | lived with the
| Perkinses long
Delectable as was the fare. James
Randolph stretched facts u little when
describing the variety Of the via,sds
, served, but he did il in good. cause.
and his conscience was I'm nowiSe ont
ragged. He awaited With Impotence
his wifes reply When il came he.
wished it had been delayed little
longer. Its htevity frightened him.
Dear James, she wrote. Il am
glad you enjoy Kate Perkins cooking.
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