Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-11-07

w len minutes.
drea put it on, her bare shoulders
shrinking from its hot touch.
Beneath the acacia cleaned the
white table set for two. Near 1t sat
the man, nursing patience with ciga-
rette as is the way Of the waiting
male. He arose as Andrea drew near
and threw his cigarette away. He was
clothed In the full dress of the trop-
ics-white mess jacket. black tie,
white walstcoat, black trousers, silk
hose and pumps. Clean shaver, hair
well brushed, he had dotted the rs
and crossed the ts OF etiquette and
stood for six feet of the best brand
OF unconscious gentleman.
Andrea stopped several PAGES away
and gazed at him. Her eyes filled sud-
denly with tears and her heart swelled
in the quick answer of the generous
TO the thoughtful. She drew near and
said in a voice that trembled slightly,
"You are considerable in all-little
things"
l..
unlocked her cloak and let it slip
from her shoulders. For an instant
his eyes were those of a man of her
own world. They swept over her as
though they took the measure of her /.
loveliness for the first time They
Travelled with flashing gaze from her
soft hair to her flushed cheeks, down I
over her bare neck and into the faery
meshes of her filmy frock, and there
they stopped with a jerk as though
even in that moment he remembered
that very short skirts and a truncated
silk stocking might leave serious
gap in the all-too-frail defenses of
modern modesty.
Then he came back in one swift up
ward sweep and met her own gaze,
squarely, steadily. She drew deep
breath. Something sustaining had
come into the white mans gray-blue
eyes, something you could lean upon
He was suddenly not of her old world.
81 am afraid the soup is a little .
cold" he said as he stepped around !
to draw her chair for her.
The dinner was good beyond the
cachet of mere gross appetite, and
It was served with a rapidly and /,
that would have done :
'redit to the oldest of the Pellor but
ers.
Your servants are well trained" =
'aid Andrea. :,
Each has little to do" said the
nan. "He must do it well. That. in h
identally. is the secret of getting :
work out OF an African" .
rs it7" said Andrea absently. I've
lways heard they We're shiftless :
Of and that white man could do the =.
FORK OF ten niggers." -
$50 he can, ordinarily" answered
he man, almost as absently, but :,
here are times when ten boys picked =,
'oys'-" He stopped as IL he were :,
'st In some far Renaissance. ~
A silence fell 10 the end OF the meal,
hich conceded with the sudden end
the tropic day. '"
The man spoke 10 the servants for -, ~,
lie first time. They cleared the =,
BILE. set II again with glasses and
lueurs, cigars, cigarettes and coffee, -
I'd moved il slightly to one side. ~
hen, from the nearby hut. they -,
ought out two cushioned wicker -
lairs, homemade bur comfortable.
idrea sank into hers with peculiar ''s
cling OF well-belng mixed with sus-
nse. The man sat down opposite n'
r, the table within easy reach of both -
L not between them. Something
aged with jerk above their heads.
ldrea, startled, looked no just in time ~, ,ils
see an enormous white disk unroil Ia
'm its edges, letting fan in circle no
ound them snowy mesh of bob .'n'
let. PIE
They. and all they needed for COM
T. became enclosed in an insect az
1of cage that swayed softly TO the -
ming stir Of air. The servants
lighted down its edges with fiat nor
mes and then lit two acetylene S,,N
lps that stood outside on stands -"
ced at right angles To the couple ~
hin the net so that the eyes Of both t''''
re spared the glare.