CUPID EN ROUTE
"It is? Think o' that! Eat whenever you like, can you? Well, how you feelin' about it now? Ready to feed?"
At luncheon Wade confided his perplexities to Dave and they talked the matter over from soup to coffee without finding a solution. Afterwards Dave insisted that Wade should go down town with him and assist in the purchase of a gown for Minnie that should be as near as possible like the one which Dave had admired the evening before at the opera. "One o' them genuine red ones, boy, that there ain't no mistakin'. Minnie's almighty fond o' red. I don't mind buyin toys and such things, but women's things is different. Them gals in the stores is as haughty as biscuit-shooters; all dressed in black silk, with about a million dollars worth o' hair on their heads. They got a way o' lookin' at you, sort o' high an' mighty, that makes you feel like a hunk o' 'dobe; leastwise, that's the way it makes me feel, partner. I reckon you've had more experience with 'em. Anyhow, you can be
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