The sun., 1908-05-03
ROMANCE WITHOUT WORDS
DEMURE GIRL AND NUMBER
THREE EXCHANGE IDEAS,
Hatpln Finally Makes the Date While Dan.
EcrOus Enrique Orders an Extra POusss
Cafe-Incident Of the Blue Hare Hour
nj the SATURDAY Table d'HOte

establishment just west OF Sixth avenue wa
filed with the usual Saturday night crowd
The atmosphere was faint blue with ciga-
rettc smoke The walters and the orchestra
we're having an endurance contest in noise
making
Sometimes the plano had the best Of 1t and
sometimes the plate smashers. Nobody
paid much attention 10 either except when
the latest sentimental song was doletuly
scraped on the violin by an underfed young
man with dark dreamy eyes.
Then the men clapped vigorously and tn"
women ratified their forks on their plates
for more. Every one was feeling comfort
able and eSquisitely Bohemian. .
But the brown haired girl with the Ma
donna face remained coldly demure. The
man with her was an exotic looking cha1
about the color Of tan suede slippers, with
Victor Emmanuel mustache that threatened
fight in every hair, though he was fat AMI
forty,
He did nearly all the talking-a good deal
Of il with a wealth Of gesticulatlon She
answered with smiles and simperB and a
word or two when his mouth was too full OF
spaghetti for utterance.
They we're about at the potags stage .,
the menu when the other man came m,
There was nothing exotic about him. He
comes in punches.
His scalp was growing out through his
sandy hair prematurely and his short fair
mustache was waxed into gimlet points oycl
his cherry red lips. He wore an opal pin 10
his peacock blue scarf a spotted yellow
waistcoat and brown business suit.
The recognition was plain TO any ono
only hardly any one happened to be taking
notice 1t was cordial very cordial b'ii
wholly undomoustrativc, He. just sullloi
clear out to his ears and gave the right
gmlet an extra twist
She liz up far back in her expressly
eyes. If her exotic companion, who's
name by the way was Enrique had notice
the inclination Of her head he would only
have thought she was intercepting dro'
Of soup on her lower lip.
After that the exchange Of thoughts be
tween the tables was a rapid fire affair. Tha.
newcomer conducted the Irritation wi:h th'
bold carelessness Of the deuce Of felloy
that he was
lie was quite eaCo in doing 80, as w
riuues back vas { I'm i to him. She ha
to he extremely careful. but she was
artist at the game, ..
When Number Three looked at her oy}r
the rim Of his cocktail glass in way th9
sail as plainly as words "Herc's 10 yol
bright eyes" she put her champagne glss
H.. old
and had all sorts VI extras and lookei
I'm with YOU in the spirit in such a deli
cate way that Enrique must have thought
il was the bouquet of the wine that ticklel.
her nOstri :.
I'd when Numter Thre> fot w4rn7d
up and rossod the edge Of tie uenu care
to his lips with facial contortion thar
plainly meant "Yum-yum.' she rubbed
her lips with her dainty scrap Of handler
chief giving a pout which no one could
fail to terpret as meaning anything bul
You saucy fellow! How dare youl'
They kept il up through the fish and thf
entree. Even the spaghetti was swallowed
with tender meanings and the full amators
possibilities ( spring chicken and salide.
de sason were Govclopei.
Mum or Three US he absorbed his pint
of red ink grew pinker and more or less
daredevil li7ht shone In his eyes he
extracted pencil from his vaisteoat pockei
and PROCEEDED to tear blank strip Cf paper
from the back Of letter. r-. d,
Then tho girl sat w with a bounce thai
attracted Enrique's attention, and she had
to pacify him by saying she had hurt be-
foot under the table The moment his
attention was on she frJwned bltckly al
Number Tire AID shook her head. oh 81
slightly, but OH 30 uumistakably.
Cnder cover Of the table cloth she put up
her plump little fist with ioreGngers eI.
tended so that il irresstibly suggested sJ
pistol and she snlpped her second finger
on her thumb clearly indicating ths dis .
charge uf the weapon, She looked over az
Enrique with a wrinkle Of heT eyebrows
which said, That's the sort Of temper he
has, and she put her hand over tie section .
Of her corsqge where the heart 10 pOpularly
supposed u le meaning, OF course, thpl
that was where bullet might be eSpectet
to llni while suggestive forward pusl
of the head elsl' hint II that iuosr
Three might yet his too IL lie wasn't good,
Number rhg1u sew i all some way, hf
,lIdn't look 30 pink either. lie put his per-
cil end pager bach iuto bis pocket anu
there seemed 10 be @ decided hiatus
But IN q minute or 50 the girl came %
life again. She threw a roguish smile
and a confdentiGl nod across the room
and held up her menu card in significant
way. That was all. but Number Three
also cheered mp wonderfully end enjoyed
his ice cream.
Yet the glr now seemed TO be only play
ing With her hatpin. She was jabbing n
in purposcless way. go il seemed. through
the card as she listened 10 Enriques flow
of clipped English md threw in mono
sylsbles TO keep him going.
She seemed to enjoy stabbing the card
so much that she made him order a second
pousse cafe to prolong the game. When
shr tired Of il at last she held the card up
10 the light as If ~ admire her handiwork
and looked over il Et Number Three
When she and Enrique eXtricated them
selves from the too helpful walters and
started for the door she walked behind
holding the menu card hs II hidden In the
folds OF her skirt Az she passed she just
dropped il at the feet Of Number Three
without so much as looking at Il
lie didn't care much, however He
picked il up with nOnchslont air as II h
was 4 mere accident. He waited q minuis Z
~ see if any one was playing sleuth, and ~
no one seemed TO be he started to study
the card.
lie didn't get much satisfaction out Of D
tll he also held il up 10 the light Then Tie
smile clean out 10 his ears came over be
face again as he yanked out the paper aud
pencil and made a memorandum. lha'
was ALL He got up and tipped his wal er
put his coat on and strolled out with ths
air Of man who owned hauhattuI and
The Bronx. &.
The watcher whom he hadn GetoC.eu
picked up the card on his way out, 4 littlf /,
study showed that the hatrin had vorketi
with methO,:. tr 'tt~