New-York tribune., 1909-08-29

tanned her name, | declare her to have been the
most attractive fat woman | ever saw Fat? She
was indeed of almost startling amplitude But,
| reflected, there were cures for adipoSity.
And so we rode IN the rickety hack with the
list to starboard and pratted. AS prattled |
found myself succumbng more and more to the
rotund charms of Margarida Maria Rodrigues,
Which the same was her name, she told
me- That is she told me as soon as she could re-
from her obvious delight in thus unexpectedly
finding herself with the renowned liberatOr. the
Senior Turco OFallono. kept my chest Debated
as best | could and suffered her to proceed 1t
then that she named herself, not without little
flourish of pride that appeared beseeming and
natural Margarida Maria Rodrigues good
round name and its owner good round woman.
Under the charm. not to mention the promise of
the simple, moving story she proceeded to tell me
came several times to reaching over and Civ
ing her fat white hand with the dimpled knuckles
a reassurng pat. Before we had gone mile, it
plain that Margarida Maria Rodrigues and
to become great friends.
I CAN hear her now. at this distance from all the
moons that have vanished since, unfolding her
paintlve, pathetic narrative She was an exile from
Costa RiCa Did | know Costa RCa.
80 Do | know the Filings in my teeth in
CURED of Margarida convincingy notwithstanding
the homeiness of the metaphor, and Margarda
was convinced.
Very well Her story was a sad even a dreary
one. l, she had hoped ever since reading of my
deeds and projects IN those interviews. was to be
She had been stirred 10y reading of what manner of
conqueror had been and was IL satisfied her |
was to obtain not justice only Heaven she said
piouSly could give her that.-but revenge for her
and her family the family OF RodrgueS
That was the prelude Margarida. Conquering
her rising emotion. continued Her father. de
ceased had been the important and the wealth.
est planter in Costa RiCa Listening To Margarda
! Judged that there must be AT least RodrgueS
hacienda, with chime of three bells IN each open
cupola on every square mile of Costa Rican soil
Upon demising. her father the mother being al
ready dead-had bequeathed all of the immense
RodrlgueS plantations. besides great treasure IN
cash and Jewels to her brother and only living rela
tive Porfrio Pedro Rodrigues
Then had come the last Costa Rican revolution
The insurgents winning had ConfisCated all of the
great Rodrgues estates Her brother however
Porhrio Pedro RodrigueS had escaped from Costa
Rica with the portable factors of the family
lie had made the best OF his way with the treas
Europe. Presently. very soon perhaps
within a month she knew that her brother would
arrive in New York with the treasure And then
Margarida at this point turned her regard upon
wistfully. Shush, Don't tell me that a fat
woman can't look wiStful' They can look wistful
over anything even over being fat
And then when her brother did arrive in New
York with the RodrigueS treasure breathed Mar
should lead an expedition against the victorious in
surgents of Costa Rca She would provide the
means for this punitive enterprise IL some
thing of course. that L. the Conquering Senior
TurCo O'Fallonio. should regain the seized Rod
rlgues estates 1t was more. however. that should
be the brave instrument of her revenge upon the
enemies of her beloved Costa RiCa
to where this fat, fair and gilt incrusted patron
trying to back through the door of a tumble
down hack, When Margarida finished her narra-
TIVE with little pathetic sigh.-a sigh. | couldn't
help but think, much small for her-I no longer
saw her three ChInS. Her adipOSitV had become As
nothing, or at any rate mere inconsequential de
tail TO me. In fact had anybody asked me- |
should have said that Margarida would look well
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