New-York tribune., 1906-05-13

advice, ShOrtVt' says he.
Il did" says /.
Religious, or otherwise1" says he. "But
it makes no difference, I'm yours to com
mand."
Il don't ask you to go beyond your depth.
says /. It's just case OF orderln fancy
grub I'm due TO blow a lady friend Of mine
TO the sweest kind of a supper that grows IN
the borough; no two-dollar tabble-dOty, un-
derstand; but special, real-lace, eighteen
carat feed with nothing on the bill OF fare that
amt spelled in French.
"Ahi'' says he. something ike BdrqHetteS
Bordellaise. pomIet casserole, fTdises aH cham
payne, and so on ehs
81 was Just about to mention them very
things says l. But my memOry's on the
blink Couldn't YOU write EN- down. with a
diagram of how they look. and whether you
spear EN- with a fork, or take EN- in through
a straw"
why. to be sure" says he. So he did. and
it looked something like this
"CoHsomHf az janet d'est1YGg0H Chicken
soup-big spoon)
"BdrqHettes BOrdellaise (marrow on toast.
with mushroOms-fork only).
"FoHdS d'dytiChdnts MoHeg0SqHe (hearts Of
artichokes in cream sauce-fork and bread
sticks)
There was a lot more to it. and it wound up
with some kind of cheese with name that
sounded like breakin' a pane of glass.
threw up my hands at that. " II 5 no go,
says /. Il couldn't learn to say all that in
month How would it do for me TO slip the
waiter that program and tell him to follow
''-Wen do better than thata" says Pinckney.
Where's your 'phonee
Pretty soon he gets some one on the wire
that he calls Felix, and they has a heart-tO-
heart talk in French for about ten minutes.
Its all arranged says he. You are to
hand my card to the man at the door as you
go in, and Felix will do the rest. Eleven
fifteen is the hour But I'm surprised at YOU.
Shorty y lady en-. All, well In the
spring the Young mans fancy gently turns"
"Ah, saw" says /. There amt no call
for any funny cracks about this. You know
/ me, and YOU can guess I'm no WIlhe-hOy.
/ When get a soft spot in my head, and try TO
win queen, it'll be done on the dead quiet,
and YOU won't hear no call for help. But this
/ is different proposition This IS a real lady,
| who's been locked out by the society trust,
and who takes an invite from me just because
we happened to know each other when we was
kids.
"Oh-ho!" says Pinckney, snappin' them
black ewes the wav he does when he gets real
walked up. That sounds quite romantic
1t amt" says I. It's Just as reg lar as
takin' Your aunt 10 a sacred concert
He seemed to want 70 know the details,
though; SO l told him all about Sadie and how
| she'd been ruled out of her class by lot OF
| stitfs who want one-two-slxtecn with her,
| either for looks or lUCre.
And it's a crooked decision saws /.
| Maybe Sadie wasn't brought up by Swedish
| Mass: but she's velvet now. and she's
real hand-picked pippin, too What's more,
she's a nice little lady, with nothin behind her
that YOU couldn't print in a Sunday-school
| weekly. All she aims to do IS to travel with
the money-burners and be sOciable. And say,
that's natural. amt it -
Its quite human. says Pinclney, 81 and
what you've told me about her Is very inter
esting. l hope the little supper goes off all
right. Ta-ta, Shorty"
Well it began frosty enough; for when it
came to pilotin lady into that swell mob. l
had the worst case of stage-fright YOU ever
saw. say. them walters is haughty-lookin
lot amt they2 But after we'd found Felix
and I'd passed him a ten-spOt. and he'd bowed
/ and scraped and tOwed across the room like
he thought we held a mortgage on the place I
didn't feel quite so much as If I'd got into the
wrong flat.
did have something of a chill when caught
sight of a SheepiSh-looking CuSs IN the glass.
He looked sort of familiar, and was wondering
what he'd done to be ashamed OF, when | sees
| it was me- Then squints around AT the other
guys; and say. more'n half of EN- wore the
same kind of a look. II was only the women
that seemed right to home. There wasn't one
in sight that didn't have her chin up and her
shoulders back. and carving all the dog the