The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-02
CHAPTER VIII.-Continued.
Another Salad Idea,

Another Salad Idea.
Suddenly bright idea came to me.
EDid you know that Miss Annesley,
the girl you saw on shipboard, is in
Washington and was at the embassy
last night?'
"No! You don y sayl" He was too
this exploit, Nancy'll have to introduce
me. Did you see her9''
eyes, and talked to her. You see
what you missed by not going last
and a C cold bath in TIE fem morning.'' 'e''
"Where shall I say you were last
night?' [ asked presently.
Mister James scratched his chin dis
concertedly. IL hadn It thought of that.
Say that I met some Of the boys and
got mixed up in little game of
"You left your hat on the rack and
your cane in the stand You are sup
posed to have left the house without
any hat.'
"Hat!" He jumped up from the cot
on which he had been sitting and picked
up the groom's tile. "Didn't you bring
me a hat ?'-dismayed.
"You said nothing about it''-and I
roared with laughter.
How shall | get out Of here7 ]
can t wear this thing thru the streets. -
I've a mind to make you wear it
And, by Jove, you shall! Your wear
it to the hatter's, or stay here. That +
final. I never back down, either.'
get even with you. I always did"
~ am not boy any longer ''-witl
an infection on the personal pronoun
"Weu, to continue about that excuse
You left the house without hat, ant
you, me-; the boys, and played poke. al
night; That bitches wonderfully; Yo'
didn't feel well enough to go to tn
embassy, but you could go and pla,
poker. That sounds as if you cared
lot for your sister. And you wanted t.
stay at home the first night, becaus
you had almost forgotten. how the in
side Of private dwelling looked. Yer
GOOD; very S coherent; w,,+ +ho ao,,oo .,
cuse can t give7''-worriedly Ightin in,
the cigar had given him.
"My boy, I'm not making up you
excuses; you I'll have to invent those
I'll be silent, but I refuse to lie t
Nancy On your account, Poker IS tn
weight with it. You will have to, l.
them believe you re heartless wretch
which you are, if you persist in thi
HYou don't understand, Chuck.
wish I could tell you; honestly, l d.
The girls Will nave TO CnlnR mea
things Of me till the farce is over.
couldn It escape if I wanted to-
els it Miss Annesley, Bob9" Wa
It she whom you ran away with? Com
make clean breast of it. If it. 8 sh
why, that altogether alters the face
things :,
returned. 81 give up. You've hit
You understand now simply can
back away; couldn't II ! trled; 3D.,
q Are you in love with the glrl7'
nThatss just what want to I'll
out, Chuck. I'M not sure; We oe'
thinking of her night and day. 4 nev
had any affair; / don It know what To-
IS. But If it's shaking in your, boo
at the sound of her name, II it's e
ting red in the face when you on
lust thinking Of her; If it's having
wild desire to pick her up and r
away with her when you see her, tn
i We got it. When she stepped out
tbat COMPOUNDED carriage last mig!
Won could have knocked me over y WI
naper wad. Come, let's go out: la
tbe hat! Let them all laugh II IN
viii. It's only a couple OF blocks
liI He 30 bravely put the white hat
head. and together we marched 9
he police office into the street