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Show IS RUDE TO GABRIEL i Purser Ejects Him From Appropriated Appro-priated Stateroom. Polished Nails and Manners of Stowaway Stow-away de Luxe Falls to Win Ship's Officer Goes Into the Lazaret. New York. You have to hand it to Gabriel Fanches for the polish on his finger nails, his manners and his nerve. The officers of La Lorraine of the French line have handed it to him already. Gabriel went aboard the vessel at Havre with $15 in the coin of La Belle France reposing close to the exact crease running dow'n the right let of his trousers, and the money was still in his pocket when La Lorraine steamed into New York harbor. When the French equivalent for "All ashore that's going ashore" was sung out at Havre, Gabriel did not re- I spond. By that time he had glanced ' over the second-class passenger list j and had picked out for his own a large unoccupied stateroom. Gabriel was one of the first at table for the first meal of the voyage, and kept up the record for several days. He was a cheerful soul, and in his search for congenial spirits acquired considerable popularity in the second sec-ond cabin. For the first few days of the trip the purser was visibly worried. Time and again he wandered about the Bhlp, counting noses. One by one he called call-ed the second-olass passengers Into a private conference and quizzed them. The last to be cross-examined was Gabriel. Every one else had been able to point out their particular name on I the purser's list and show In other I ways that their passage had been hon- , orably contracted for. "You are rude, sir," snapped Gabriel when the purser suggested that he might have neglected to purchase his passage. "You are ridiculous, too, 1 and I must refuse to discuss this at-fair at-fair with you." Without delay the purser proceeded to live up to the character given him by Gabriel. He moved the young gen-' tleman from his comfortable stateroom state-room to the lazaret, which Is the Bhip's prison. And then but no! It Is too horrible; It is monstrousu, the act of a fiend this rude, ridiculous ridicu-lous purser dug up from the hold an- j other who had started without tha equivalent of a stowaway do luxe. This perBon was Luclen Guille.rmet, a Swiss, who had worked with tils hands. He was dirty from his dayB of intimate contact with the cargc, in the bowels of the ship, and not al all debonair. And ii.to the lazaret they put Lucien Guilllermet! Gabriel sent an Indignant message to the captain, saying that he wan un us-d to occupying the tame sleeping quarters with another, particularly one such aa his present roommate. But the pig of a purser Intercepted the note. They turned both Gabriel and th Swiss, who confessed he wanted to work with his hands In the new world so badly that he had stolen a perfectly perfect-ly good passage from La Campagnie Trans-Atlantlque over to the Ellis Island Is-land authorities. And the mockery of It Is that they will probably let the horny-handed, plodding Swi?s have his way. while the most desirable Gabrkl will rehrj, whence he cama. |