'
'Hello!' I replied, still half asleep, and anxious to hide from the
minister that I was trying to gain a few more moments of snoozing
delight, 'what's abroad?'.
'The devil,' he answered shortly, and with such emphasis that I sat bolt
upright, looking anxiously about.
'Oh! no need for alarm. He's not after you particularly--at least not
to-day,' said Craig, with a shadow of a smile. 'But he is going about in
good style, I can tell you.'
By this time I was quite awake. 'Well, what particular style does His
Majesty affect this morning?'
He pulled out a showbill. 'Peculiarly gaudy and effective, is it not?'
The items announced were sufficiently attractive. The 'Frisco Opera
Company were to produce the 'screaming farce,' 'The Gay and Giddy Dude';
after which there was to be a 'Grand Ball,' during which the 'Kalifornia
Female Kickers' were to do some fancy figures; the whole to be followed
by a 'big supper' with 'two free drinks to every man and one to the
lady,' and all for the insignificant sum of two dollars.
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