Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

one more uUlbI ll4l-tN'
man who came often. Where Is 'he VIZ
tim?"
Nancy sighed
Il don't know"
- gracious powers. I've been gone
only a week. Don't tel iile ~" -
a puilty man to escaqe! ~,
Pof5hv.s tone was distinctly hopeful. ne
,o.,,aa 70 hear that some resoiute feiioW-
.at, nod resisted NanCys wNes ana Flilo'
Gated his sex. o+betic
aroon IT is an interesting upper Up u
smiles and weeps, and is angry peiole any
other part of the same ~akehS'
"tte STAYED onlyeone day." the young W.
,,,,r s,id mournfuIly, land things We're just
becoming so interesting
..I cou,d love that Texan like prothei'
murmured Bobby, fervently. lilo
..Rut he made considerable proerSSSs j." do 40
no uas here twinkled Nancy. lhey w
those things better in Texas my 80,
6artIv understand the value OF time Wv
49, Their ideas don't develop by go
ingica1 formation. They are quick on 'he
trigger. these Texans ,z,,,t, soc:at
.sIt's a habit they contract 'hIouSH So -
relations with horse thieves sad l!Ie L.
- me often Did this Texan crop
from a clear sky, or did he blow IN Will
Buffalo Bill| IT.. ,rten they
"Tbe Rollinses captured him iieh ~
af5r't know, what to do with sucn Dig gam
- tl,c,. sent for me. Mrs. Rollins Wrote d
most beeeeching note. she s44u jim 49,
her husband, you know-WaS iiIAeu ~, up I'D
this Texan in some big deal anu NJ 81 81
a. do things for him. They were 10 uIlle a. q.
yaIrnoufco's that night, ana Slle Ie'-tJ
couldn't bear the brunt alone. oHe 80
nure | could put the man at ms cas- GO 80
abe would be eVerlastlnSIy 4IutpteI ~ -
X 7 would come 10 her rescue put Si-e
feared She was imposing on me, Ior jim
said the guest was intensely western Doc
..Nnv. Bobby. Mrs. Rollins was boS
tonian before She fell from grace anu NJ.
Tied a New York man. ! knew that Wllat
lin nrobabIy did say was that the 1eNdii
vas a corker-a wild and Woody Ihu IAN
That's Jim's style, but transItlloh MY D pc
tonese does soften the outlines Oh IAN
ST II had been awfully dull. You rea! all !,
shouldn't leave town in Lent, BoooS' can
IL inconsiderate. >, -...o,
wen I've always insisted that self-mor-
tifcatlon can be carried too far Tathet
see consistent self-denial throughout me
year than one orgy OF ascetLcistil' EN- no. sc
why I don't allow you to come as OFTEN as
yclid like during the season, ana doh
mind giving you up on Fridays during Lent,
Int one must have some amusement Ioi me
rest Of the week evenings, and there hoIA-
ing gong on. zoz ~
You were at Palm Beach. 1 needed en-
tertainment, Enter Texan. l call that eX-
reIIent stage management. Inc only tEou-
BILE was that the curtain was hurried. III
the words of the poet, 1 only knew ne came
and went 49,, -.
would be glad TO oblige her. It wasn't nee
essary to say that l regarded her as an
angel and benefactress, but did.
':She and Mr.. Rollins called for me at
Gas.
"When we drove up to the porte-cochere,
ha Grp
threw away cigar, bOwled the carriage
man out of the way as If he had been
ten-pin. and opened the door for US.
He was glad to meet US. He said RoI-
Inns had proved what he thought of Mrs.
Rollins by marrying her, and had said l
was the real thing, and he had lots OF conf-
dence in Rollins Judgment, so he reckoned
our references were good. He'd about come
TO the conclusion we were short on appe-
tite. Dinner had been waiting for him since
u o'clock. They always had noon dinners
in WahoO. A New York woman went down
there once and had late dinners. She want
ed her niger cook TO come to the door and
say Dinner is served but the cook drew
the line right there.
Finally some eastern syndicate men We're
TO dine a the house and the missis told
the niger she'd have to announce dinner
or chuck her job. (This isn't my vocabu-
larry. Bobby; its the Texan's)
Everybody was sitting in the parlor at
Csc that evening when the door opened and
bi4A4--tE STUN A.N- +-Ne@a --tf -SNFN4A45 EN>NN
10 death.
2" say. folks, yah dinnah's dished,' she
yelled Then she slammed the door and
ran.
Breezy? A ffty-mile-an-hour gale IS
dead calm compared with him, Bobby.
He told US all this while we were going
UP the steps. He hadn't a comma conceal
ed about him.
but had a queer ringing quality that made
II carry wonderfully. l never met clarion
tones outside Of poem, but l guess those
Were clarion tones. He said he had tuned
up his pipes riding round and round bunch
es of cattle and singing to them to keep
them from stampeding. His voice was so
fresh and clear that ii would have been
beautiful on a thirty thousand-acre range.
but there seemed to be rather too much of
II for DelmOniCus.
Everybody turned to look at the man,
and grinned
" Is this the modest shrinking violet |
was to put at ease?' I asked Mrs. Rollins
In the cloak room. Sac only groaued. Bos-
ton and Texas have no points OF contact.
Now, l thought the man delicious. AS for
being made conspicuous-wen l had on my
pink cloth. That gown could stand the
bright white light that beat upon the Texan
and his party.
eve found a table. Bill dominated the
room. NO, l didn't call him Bill but
that's what the boys call him In Texas and
Il fits him much better than his conven-
tional title.
BOBBY ne was the biggest thing I've
ever seen. He was miles high and broad
proportionately, and yet he didn't seem to
have an ounce OF superfu0us flesh He
looked as though he had been made out of
wholebOne and raWhlde. Everything about
him worked on springs. I wouldn't have
been surprised to see him pull out a six
Shooter and begin snuftiug the candles or
get up and play leap-fr0g over the tables
i was like playing with an electric DYNAMO
70 associate with him. He seemed to have
iimltless possibilities Of explosion. l never
realized before how smoOth-ruuning and
colorless the ordinary man Is
NO one else In the room tried to talk
Dur wild man from Wahoo held the floor
from oyster to coffee. He didn't nav much
attention TO Mrs. Rollins, ana he dropned
Mr Rollins with the entree. After thar
my only rival was the head waiter. The
conversation was addressed to us Bill's
Vocabulary wasn't like any English knew
put we always seemed to catch his mean
ing. So did the walters. So did everybody
IN the room except an exquisite Frenchrnan
who sat at one Of the tables near us and
stared at the Texan as If hypnotized I'd
like to read that Frenchman's Impressions
d'Amerique. Wen be IN 1t.
= bill wasn't wearing evening clothes but
he didn't care. His foot was on his native
heath, and he patroniged us all Including
the head waiter.
I've ALWAYS been q froid 20 .La4 -. :,