Show HIS LITTLE dannee NEW PLEASANT EVEN ING WITH FRIENDS only after expenses were paid and jell ty a remembrance came idea that important fact had been over looked it seemed bears since ethridge had seen rogers and when they met one afternoon in union tare the latter wouldn t let him off he had promised to come and dine the next night I 1 don 11 now of anything that could give me more pleasure old man than to buy you the best dinner that can be had IE town he said and meant it so the next night ethridge met bogers at one of the famous hotels uptown it was the first time this winter he had been out anywhere and the first time he bad worn his evening clothes rogers is popular everybody knows him they had hardly met at the appointed restaurant before a par ty of six men in dinner clothes sur rounded him and there were eions to ethridge just going to dined come and dine with us insisted the spokesman of the six so presently the double quartet wa ordering wine and high priced delicacies quarreling good na tiredly as to who should pay tor the whole spread the cigars ethridge remembers were long glossy brown skinned beauties with no especial trimmings in the way of silver foil but they cost 1 25 apiece the bill as a whole was pretty stiff even for that part of town by and by it was decad ed to hire a room play a few games of poker and attend to the minor de tall of who should pay afterward As a as the game started a kit ty was created to pay for cigar and drinks because the kitty paid everybody ordered more champagne the play lasted till near midnight then as some of the party had to catch suburban trains the game broke up all declaring that it had been a long time since they had spent such an with good fel by jove I 1 was the guest lows ethridge had enjoyed himself as much as any one perhaps more the question of who should pay came up again rogers grabbed the check when it was brought but two of his friends piled onto him and took it away here this Is too much for any one of us to stand they said the items were dinner 47 wine 35 cigars 13 50 sundries 8 total let the kitty pay tor it the kitty however though a well fattened animal came 40 short of pa ing the bill ethridge had lost 25 at poker but paid another 5 to ward squaring the evenings fund each of the baity bearing his shire in the deficit then as they started away it suddenly occurred to rogers that the waiter had not been tipped well soon settle that he said here cut the cards to see who gives him 5 ethridge lost and handed over the tip when he started home by him self he found that his remaining cash amounted to 1 87 the evening had been so pleasant however that even then he did not grudge the outlay but as he turned into his door a thought suddenly occurred to him by jove I 1 was the guest new york press |