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Show ICE CREAM DID IT. H Cuts Out the Treat and She Cuts Him Out In Return. "Como early to-morrow evening and wo will Bit In. tho park," bIio had coyly said as Walter bade her a lov Ing good-night and went down tho steps. He. had replied with a smile and a nod. He wns a young nnd guileless man, nnd this wns his first love, ux plains tho Now Orleans Picayune. He had never been buncoed. Tho next day seemed never cnttlnn to him, but nhally tho sun went to bed and Walter found a girl hanging on his arm and headed for a park. Under Un-der tho budding trees they sat down to hear tho Inst songs of tho robins bo-foro bo-foro roosting high. Ho sat with bet hand In his, and for ten mlmitei neither apoko. Then Helen softly breathed Into his ear: . "That must bo nn Ice crenm parlor across tho street." "I think It's a beer saloon," ho replied, re-plied, as a chill wont up his back. ''Hut ladles aro going In there." "Yes, but it Is fnshionablo now for ladles to go Into beer saloons.' Sho sought to pull hor hnnd awny, and thero was sllonco for a moment Then Bho snld: "I can nlmost tasto chocolato lec 9rcam." "It Is onions you smell," ho replied. "Some ono Is cooking them for supper." sup-per." ' Sho moved a few Inches awny from him, and under tho plcctrlc light ho saw hor eyebrows como together and hor noso point straight into tho air. "It seems to mo that if I had a dish of Ice cream" sho softly begun, but as sho paused he broko In: "You might have bilious colic before morning." "Mr. D'puy, will you have tho kind-noss kind-noss to escort mo homo?" "Certainly, my dear, but why this hurry? Perhaps tho band" "Now at onco, sir!" "Dut Helen" "Miss Taylor, If you plcaso." "Hut I thought we camo out" "So wo did, sir, nnd wo have como In, sir, nnd good-night, sir. I shall not bo at homo to-morrow evening." |