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<p>You are informed (by virtue of the privileges of astronomical discovery) that the star lodgers name was <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Brunelli. His wearing a yellow tie and paying his rent promptly distinguished him from the other lodgers. His raiment was splendid, his complexion olive, his mustache fierce, his manners a princes, his rings and pins as magnificent as those of a traveling dentist.</p>
<p>He had breakfast served in his room, and he ate it in a red dressing gown with green tassels. He left the house at noon and returned at midnight. Those were mysterious hours, but there was nothing mysterious about <abbr>Mrs.</abbr> Dempseys lodgers except the things that were not mysterious. One of <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Kiplings poems is addressed to “Ye who hold the unwritten clue to all save all unwritten things.” The same “readers” are invited to tackle the foregoing assertion.</p>
<p><abbr>Mr.</abbr> Brunelli, being impressionable and a Latin, fell to conjugating the verb “<i xml:lang="la">amare</i>,” with Katy in the objective case, though not because of antipathy. She talked it over with her mother.</p>
<p>“Sure, I like him,” said Katy. “Hes more politeness than twinty candidates for Alderman, and lie makes me feel like a queen whin he walks at me side. But what is he, I dinno? Ive me suspicions. The marninll coom whin hell throt out the picture av his baronial halls and ax to have the weeks rint hung up in the ice chist along wid all the rist of em.”</p>
<p>“Sure, I like him,” said Katy. “Hes more politeness than twinty candidates for Alderman, and he makes me feel like a queen whin he walks at me side. But what is he, I dinno? Ive me suspicions. The marninll coom whin hell throt out the picture av his baronial halls and ax to have the weeks rint hung up in the ice chist along wid all the rist of em.”</p>
<p>Tis thrue,” admitted <abbr>Mrs.</abbr> Dempsey, “that he seems to be a sort <span epub:type="z3998:roman">iv</span> a Dago, and too coolchured in his spache for a rale gentleman. But ye may be misjudgin him. Ye should niver suspect any wan of bein of noble descint that pays cash and pathronizes the laundry riglar.”</p>
<p>“Hes the same thricks of spakin and blarneyin wid his hands,” sighed Katy, “as the Frinch nobleman at <abbr>Mrs.</abbr> Tooles that ran away wid <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Tooles Sunday pants and left the photograph of the Bastile, his grandfathers chat-taw, as security for tin weeks rint.”</p>
<p><abbr>Mr.</abbr> Brunelli continued his calorific wooing. Katy continued to hesitate. One day he asked her out to dine and she felt that a dénouement was in the air. While they are on their way, with Katy in her best muslin, you must take as an entracte a brief peep at New Yorks Bohemia.</p>