New-York tribune., 1909-08-29

chose a restaurant Thus was | kept Impoverished
but happy | watched her eat and drink-she had
a pretty taste for still wines too-with a growing
fascination and fattenng bankrol
Thus matters stOOd.-my rush of Margarida stin
in progress the rushing slnews harder to get all the
time and the brother with the ROdrIgues treasure
unacCountably detained in Paris Budapest or
Antwerp the Tyrol, as Margarida variously
guessed, when one eaden afternoon had what
Ella Wheeler Wilcox or William Jennings Bryan
would call cruel awakening.
TWAS stroIling about Gramercy Square irving to
1 decide whether / would wouldn't wear a flow
ing gold bullion sash with hgure-Of-eght knot at
the waist when / became GeneralissimO of the Gov
ernment forces of Costa Rica under the general
directions of my patroness Margarda Maria Rod
rigues when / was hailed from the second story
window of a neat house facing the little park The
hailer was an old friend whom hadn't seen in wears
He was a crusty bachelor for whom had done some
chores years befOre.-repOrting rubber and ma
hoganv properties in South America and the like
Come in here. you old hamingO, and give
me some Cheer' he called down TO me and his
withered old serving woman met at the front
door and conducted me up stairs TO my friend
He sitting at the window from which he
had eSpied me. nursing a th-SlIppered foot His
cherished corn was giving him living death This
he bawled at me | entered the room
warning not TO get within one hundred OCtIllIOn
miles of that We famed the years for a
brief space and then my grIzzed friend bawled for
his withered servant When she appeared
Where in the of all the bayonets of
Bilebedad is that Internal ROsita Salazar: he
bawled at her
KOS1ta mad been sent Tor, the CTOne replied she
had sent message around TO the sign OF the gilded
foot and ROsita would be arriving any minute
"'G Gded gilded foot, | found myself re-
peatng softly. Now where the dickens have /
lately had something other 10 do with a glied
foot and where the
Then my Margaridas dislike for the gilded foot
in the little side street the first day of my meet
ing with her popped into my mind / smiled At the
memory. My Margarida sensitive a soul' l
reflected
This Rosita that YOU re bowling so cIanorouslv
for said my old friend with the idea OF taking
his mind OFF his pedal trouble what and who IS
ROSitas What does she do for YOU, chloroform
you something,
ROsita; he rasPed, groaning, is my nnanana
fatty She's ROsita the Always Late Blast II all
i won't go far 20 hope that shell be Inferred
IN unCOnSeCrated ground, but i wish She get q
wiggle on her two hundred and fifty odd pounds
and come over here, that's all,
Very illuminating, SAID But what does
Rosita do Dante TO YOU, cool your fevered
brow teach you how TO do honiton Iacework.
mangle typewriter sing folk songs TO YOU
Stop that YOU Internal abberer'' he beloved
at me. ROSIta 5 my PeciIcure, and she's
He broke off suddenly because lust at that IN
"A stant Margarida Maria Rodriguez carrying a
little black hand Satche uShered by the
grinning old servant
" Rosita YOU plumpiferous angel attend to this
flaming mend of a foot of mine quick grunted nv
old frend-thuS addressing my Nargarida
My MargarIda and l exchanged only glance
Just one But II SuthcienCy There was fun
lurking around each of Margarja'S : three ChnS
But hydraulic press couldn't have squeezed a
see the Joke until hour or SO later and then /
laughed so hard IN the street that cop came near
hotfooting me 10 Bellevue'S psychopathic ward.
And SO, after that exchange of glanCeS with
another room and read the poems of Emilio CASTELAR,
with the book turned upside down while ROSita