The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-07-28

You, and ycu win get aieng ali right"
~Oh. It isn't thatr' protested Mira
Curtis. I'm not thinking about my
self. rul thinking about you. don't
So hsw you are going - get along.
1 am afrsid you can't stand the cook
ing. You know that since have been
doing my own work you can't bear to
eat away from homo, and hotels do
serve such notoriously bad msals.
James Randolph flushed guiltily.
That's ~" he said, with . sidelens
glance Of curiosity.
Nrs Curtis led the way to the dining
room. and James Randolph followed
meskiy. 1.-THE only hope I So for
you," she said presently, lis in your
Scranton visit. You can stop at Hor-
ace Petkins' while Jon are there. OF
course. I don't know anything about
Kats's housekeeping. She used to BE-
rsprehensibiy lazy ~ 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 Jon do get to
eat win 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, ~ If already smitten with an ad-
vance instalment Of the inevitable dy-
spepsia. ITS very kind Of you," he
said. ITO take such an abiding interest
in my digestion, but don't see how I
can accommodate you. don't like to
stop at Perkins. It doesn't look well.
He IL the man I am going. to strike
for the biggest pile Of money while I
am gone, and it looks hoggish to soak
him for several hundred thousand dol
lars worth OF stock and live of him at
the same time. It's adding insult to
injury"
II don't know anything about the
injury you propose to innict," returned
Mrs. Curtis, "but do know that Kate
and Horace would be insulted If 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 tosbe their
guest"
James Randolph demurred volubly
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
~ DArdnIYnn
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.
The Horace Perkinses lived In style
1t was made plain to James Randolph
during his first meal that there was nc
danger Of his going hungry while un.
der their roof, and that If his stomach
suffered, it 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 w1fe's account a. well
as on his own.
''The dear girl will be delighted to
know that am SO well taken care of, II
he said to Cousin Kate. II must writs
at once and tell her how l am fixed
otherwise she will be worrying herself
sick for fear am starving to DEATH"
Notwithstanding the business acu-
men which Mr.. Smith fiattered himself
he had discerned in James Randolph,
that young man was in some respects
a simple soul. Never was his inno-
cence more blatantly displayed than
in his letter to Mrs. Curtis.
IT 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 q remarkable housekeep.
er. shall try to tell you what we had
for dinner last night. We had some
kind of soup with little green speck,
floating in it forget the name of it
two or three kinds Of meat, with ap.
propriate vegetables; pudding, the
recipe for which must have been
cleaned from the angels. and coffee
that might have been brewed in heav.
en-. don't believe Philadelphia could
show 4 better menu than that. Really
Minnie, you ought to see me eat MY
appetite must astonish the Perkinses
They probably think that tasted 70,
several weeks before coming to Scran.
ton. l am sorry that shall wind up
the business here in 4 week or ten
days. l shall hate to leave. 1 think
1 would get fat If lived with the
Perkinses long"
Delectable as was the fare, James
Randolph stretched facts a little when
describing the variety of the viands
served. but he did 1t in, good cause
and his conscience was in nowise out
ragged. He awaited with Impotence
his wife's reply. When it came he
wished it had been delayed a little
longer. Its brevity frightened him.
Dear James," she wrote. II am
glad you enjoy Kate Perkins cooking
Under the circumstances, perhaps II
would be well for you to prolong you,
visit indefinitely"
For the first time James Randolph
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