The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-04

deck and were sprawIing on them be-
side the after wheel house.
The dipiomatist was the only one
among us out OF complete pajamas.
Hisnether limbs were draped in silk
on burmese lungyi, which looked like a
petticoat. The rest Of us were too Ian
! guild for speech but he. perhaps
through some virtue acquired from his
iiowing garment seemed fnll of sen
tentious uttcrances, which he delivered
confidentf;llly 10 the close Red sea
night n, ~ I'D ~
| This YRS One OF The things he said;
You may bring a woman from the
ends Of the earth and rear her in Lon
don and Paris, examining hor to the
! pins in the hair with all their convcil-
tionalitics, but II She Is a woman she
will chuck all such varnish overheard
| if ever she he stirred by really
mighty passion, and she will show
again TO broad daylight the naked soul
| that was bora within her ribs"
Some one laughed indolently, yet I'M
belleyingly, and then the diplomatist
broke into tale in support of his
assertion,
This is the tale:
The woman | was talking of was one
Of the richest spinsters in the world.
She was raised some 200 miles mp
country from lilo and had had it con
SANITY impressed on her there that ev-
cry word she spoke was law. You sec.
her Father Dotted on her, and all the
iliggers round were slaves
There's il good deal of abuse thrown
At Brazil as being a country where
people starve and die of fevcrs and
gel shot in the weekly revolutions and
robbed by n system of brigandage
known as legal process, but ont of eY-
cry half million there Is one man who
contrIyes TO avoid these pestilences and
in consequence WAKES enormously rich.
He makes use or the less fortunate and
treads on their heads with hobnailed
boots to assist him in his climb There
are few half and half people in Brazil
There are shoals of abnormally poor,
and there is small fistful, an extreme
~ small fistfnl Of the very ahnormally
rich. Mariquita's papa was one OF
these last. He had eInlgrated TO the
country from Chile ip bis carly youth
and couldn't say certainly who his par
cnts were, though he believed he had
AneIo-SaSon blood. ii him. His Wife
was, a New Orleans creole who spoke
niger French pstois as native tongue
and ernphatically asserted herself 10 be
ain Epglishwompn. SO what country
woman by blood Maflqnita really was
It is hard TO say. She spoke English.
French. Catslan.Sbanish and mongrel
Portuguese with equal finency and in
accuracy, and when | asked her once
in Paris Whist her nationality was she
said she mostly PM herself down rs
French
She was most extraordinary wom-
AIN. Her father died when she was mr.
teen, and year afterward she came
10 Europe and lived entirely ON her own
particular hook She apparently hadn't
q relative or guardian OF any govern
ing connection in the world. She signed
her own checks. had an unlimited bal
ance TO draw upon aud acted in all
WAYS exactly as seemed 10 her best
She was rather petite in figure, glori.
ously handsome and would suffer adj
vice to be thrust upon her by no one.
And yet she held her own perfectly and
laughed glcefully o. the many attempts
that were made 10 take her IN.
On the whole. she wasn't badly edu- I,
Gated for although | don't think she
ever troubled herself to grind At any |
book learning, she was very quick at |
picking matters up. and one eau learn |
a good many things from smart CONVEX
sation II only one listens wei aud does
not forget She was remarkably indie
pendent but she knew thoroughly how
the conventionaliiies were marked out
and when II suited her purpose TO 10
so, as il generally did, she Kept within
their bounds.
Marlqnita was by no means din
cult person TO get 10 know IN those
DAYS. and had the entree 10 her salon
almost directly after had taken up
quarters In Paris. She danced divine
ly. as all women with peninsular blood
in them can do. she was most fas-
10 look AZ and tam 10, and
expect must have shown pretty clear
ly how much was struck. for only tlo
third evening I came across her she
co6Ily told me NOT to propose TO her
Il know you were going to-" said she.
"and suppose you'll do II still They.
most OF them. do And then afierward
they gei sulky and 90 away. | hate
that. Ike friends. and | like adfnira
tion-heaps Of both. But when ! want
, man for n husband III say. I'm not
shy. mon AM. TN do the asking my
self"
After that. and remembering the
I held my tongue. though !
was honestly very much sn1itten With
her at the time and would have mar
ried her ont OF hand IN she hadn't pos
sessed a louis. -..s
They transferred me 10 81 Peters
burg. and I lost sight Of her for a .
couple Of years. but when got back 10
Paris again there she was. Just the
same as before. with most Of the Old
,ourtiers around her
He was English--aggressiyely Eng
teb-lon9 eud thin milk and watef-r