Evening star., 1909-08-29

of trucks Contiguity to the gilded foot with its
suggestion of the savage insurgents custom, horri-
fed her. | about to suggest with deicacy,
that she look elsewhere, when the jam was broken
and hack groaned onward.
Yet there are believers in telepathy If there is
anything in teepathy, why did | not divine, there
and then, the actual connection between Margarida
Maria Rodrigues and that gilded foot Telepathy:
Teepathc tlttebats,
A FTER three hours of riding (the hackman
1 \ noticing my exaltation, charged me only eight
dollars for the aring), Margarida gently insisted
upon setting me down at my lodgings. | asked her
where | might have the honor of calling upon her
AT place, she replied with manifest reluctance
She lived quietly, screened even from the view of
her eXIled compatrlotS all of whom, she permitted
to infer she outranked in quality. Pending the
arrival of her brother with the treasure. she would
of course, like to meet her promised lberator 0
had promised often for consultations respecting the
revenge she contemplated upon the enemies of her
cherished Costa Rca But she could permit me
to call She avoided the paths leading even to minor
insurgents, she had ascertained were in New York.
If | could suggest any method whereby, without
calling upon her at her screened place of domice,
Gould l. AS ready little suggester just then
had all living suggesters whipped to sauce tartar.
L exuded suggestion Tor future meetings; she
liked it and Margarlda driven away to her
chaste abode OF mystery, waving tat d1mpled hand
at she went
You sabe rush. That's what l proceeded to
give my patroness Margarida, one veocious
teXlous, the job, money burning rush.
''trequred some financiering In order to keepmv
rush of Margarda a-going made some touches that
haven't entirely succeeded iii ping off the slate
yet Restaurants theaters concerts, the opera.
flowers, bonbons, carriages.-these for the august
Margarida, and your little playmate Turk willingly
paying the freight, If the digs did become harder
and harder the weeks went on j was more than
sustained by the thought of what to be when
Margarda's s brother Porfirio arrived in New York
with the intact Rodrigues treasure chests L didn't
mention it to any of them but already was
tally picking out the fellows Id invite to accompany
me the expedition to overthrow the buttinski in
surgent government of Costa Rica. The old order
reestabished, l could see the fair Margarlda and
myself browsing among the flowers bordering the
patio of one of the noble Rodrgues haciendas and
RUT travel ahead about nine million nautical
- knots ahead-of my story.
"Margarida stood the rush well, complaisantlv.
benignly: yet always with a certain reserve store
of agreeable austerity, if comforting most
deniable favor and benefit upon by permitting
sought, of course, to ascertain the location
of her domice after that first audience. She would
wait at the appointed hour in Stuyvesant Square.
l would send the carriage for her We would dine.
and over the dinner, null over the plans tor Mar
garidas revenge upon the ensconced enemies of her
ldolzed Costa R1ca.
Yes we dined often and often always take
note of details in the swirl of great affairs,
Thus discovered the bedrock for Margarida
-er-wel pumpness. Margarda loved to
How she did love to eat! She democratic, too,
in her dining | have yet to meet up with more
catholic taste for food She was by no means un-
reasonably fond of the dishes of her uprearing In
fact after trying her with torilas chile carne,
froles variously fused up and on, at the COM
paratively inexpensive Spanish and Spanish Amer
lean restaurants found that Margarida much pre-
ferred large rambling steaks, thick chops,
and radiant obsters Adoring all manner of gusta-
tory exercises Margarda yet had keen eye for the
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