The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-24

There is certain fate hanging
over Milly,' said Kraft. land If it
overtakes her she is lost to Cypher's
and to us
''She will grow fatY' asked Judkins
fparsomely.
"S'he will go to night school and be-
come refned?" ventured anXiously.
at is this" said Kraft. punctuating
in puddle az spilled coffee with a
stiff forptn-er. Caesar had his Bru-
tuS. the cotton has its bollworm. the
chorus girl has her Pittsburger. the
Summer boArder has bis poison ivy,
the hero has his Carnegie medal. art
has its Morgan. the rose has its
Speak" interrupted. much per-
turbed. You do not think that MiIIy
will begin to lace?'
"One day" concluded Kraft solemn
| ", there will come to Cypher's for a
plate of beans Il millionaire lumber
man from Wisconsin. and he will mar.
ry Milly."
'Neverr' exclaimed Ju3Eins and |
in horror
a lumberman" repeated Kraft
hoarsely.
And millionaire lumbermann' ]
sighed despairingly.
Prom Wisconsin," groaned Jud-
kins.
We agreed that the awful fate seem
ed to menace her. Few things were
less improbable. Milly. like some vast
virgin stretch of pine woods, was
made TO catch the lumberman's eye,
And well we knew the habits of the
Badgers once fortune smiled upon
them Straight to New York they HE
and lay their goods at the feet of the
girl who serves them beans in a bean
cry. Why the alphabet itself con
hives. The Sunday newspapers head-
liners work is cut for him
''Winsome Waitress Wins Wealthy
Wisconsin Woodsman.''
Fer awhile we felt that Milly w;rt
on the verge of being lost to us.
1t was our love OF the unerring ar
tistic adjustment of nature that in
spired u.s. We could not give her over
to a lumbeTman doubiy accursed by
wealth and proyincialism. We shud-
, dered to think of Milly. with her voice
modulated and her elbows covered,
pouring tea III the marble tepee Of a
tree murderer No! In Cypher's she
belonged-in the bacon smoke the cab.
/, bage perfume the grand Wagnerian
chorus of hurled ironstone china and
! rafting casters.
Our fears must have been prophetic
for on that same evening the wildwood
, discharged upon us Milly's preordain
!. ed coufiscator-our fee to adjustment
and order. But Alaska and not Wis
!. consin bore the burden of the vista
: ton.
We were at our supper Of beef stew
; and dried apples when he trotted IN Il;
+ If on the heels of a dog team ant
! made one of the mess 1T our table
! With the freedom Of the camps he as
saulted our ears and claimed the fel
lowship of men lost in the wilds Of {
: hash house. We embraced him as /;
specimen. aud in three minutes w
! had all but died for one another n
. friends.
lie was rugged and bearded am
:, wind dried. He had just come off tn
{ .strail." he said. ut one of the Nortl
!. river ferries. | faneied | could Sc
, the snow dust OF Chiicoot yet powder
ing his shoulders. And then he SlleW
i cd the table With the nuggets. stuffe'
! ptarmigans. beadwork aud seal neit
5 of the returned Kiondiker and bega
to pirate to rs Of his millions.
!. .Bank drafts for two millions" wa
his summing up "and a thousand
day piliBg up from my claims An
now want some beef stew aud cal
ned peaches. never got off the trail
since / nIushpd out of Seattle. and III
hungry The stuff the niggers fee
YOU on Pullinans doesn't count. 70
gentlemen order what you want.
And then Milly doomed up with
thousand dishes pn her bare arm
loomed up big and white and pink an
awful as Mount ST Elias with Il smil
like day breaking in a gulch. And To
Klondiker threw down his pelts an
nuggets AS dross and let his jaw fa
halfway and stared at her. You ceul
almost see the QlalHouu tlaia Oh .hi
Tvs brow and the hand epbroidere
silk Paris gowns that he meant to bu
for her.
At last the bollworm lad attaeke
the cotton. The poison ivy was reacl
ing out its ;endrils TO intwine the sur
mer boarder The millionaire lumbe
man. thinlr disguised as the Alaska
miner. was about TO engulf our Mil
and upset natures adjustment.
Kraft was the first to act He leape
up aud pounded the klondiker's bac
.Come out and drink" he shouted
drink first and eat afterward.. Jul
kins seized one arm and the othe
Gayiy. roaringly irresistibly. IN joi
good fellow style we dragged him fro
fhe restaurant TO a cafe. stufiing h
pockets with his embalmed birds AZ
. indigestible nuggets
e There he rnmbled d roughly goo
humored protest. That's the girl f
d. nv money!" he declared. "She CO
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