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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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lldown the stairs through mixingher feet. She was dignified andcheerful, but she had large feet.Aye, they were uncommon thatway. Through the shutters we sawthe Plaza beginning to stir withthe evening crowds, and a fewblocks over the flat roofs ofhouses the harbor, and the Hen-rietta floating peacefully at an-chor. A breeze blew in fromthe sea. The white town ofRosalia drowsed in its tropicaltwilight and masses of pink blos-soms, circled by the green Guada-lupean mountains. When Madame Bill came back, shebrought with her two negresses withbaskets, who straightened the furnitureand laid the table. The shutters wereclosed, a lamp or two lit, and we dinedwith sumptuous profusion and the ele-gant dialogue of Flanigan and MadameBill. For a thousand years, says Flani-gan, by the imerald seas of the Orient;and the Japanese did moderate after-dinner tumbling and mild but curiousbow-knots. David marched and saluted,and after these climbed into his chair,got his pipe, which Flanigan lit for him,
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Enclosing his Collar with one Hand, andsuppressing his features with the other fixed between his teeth, laid his head onhis paws, pulled a few drowsy puffs, andwent to sleep; for he was a calm one,David, as I said, and yet ingenious, ex-perienced in life and travel, and, as youmight say, a dog of the world. MadameBill lit her cheroot thoughtfully, andthere was conversation. < The Sefior Bill, she said, is at thepresent pursuing the foreigners through-out Rosalia and La Libertad with a por-tion of the Guadalupean army. It wasnot wise to cast the Minister of Militaryand Internal Peace so upon his diges- 152 HAKPEKS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. tion, which is to him important. Butwithout doubt you are distinguished andexperienced, especially the Senor David.They will not look for you perhaps here,which is over my apartments, but willattack, it may be, the ship of your hithercoming, and in that way be imbecile andfoolish. 1 Hivens! says Flanigan. But Imthinkin, wid great admiration for your-self,

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