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Willie Case had been taken to Payson to testify before the coroner's jury investigating the death of Giova's father, and with the dollar which The Oskaloosa Kid had given hie in an orgy of dissipation the moment that he had been freed from the inquest Ice cream, red pop, peanuts, candy, and soda water may have diminished his appetite but not his pride and self-satisfaction as he sat alone and by night for the first ti place Willie was now a s from the pretty waitress of The Elite Restaurant on Broadway; but at heart he was not happy for never before had he realized what a great proportion of his anatolanced fearfully at the forainst the white of the table cloth, he flushed scarlet, assured as he was that the waitress who had just turned away toward the kitchen with his order was convulsed with laughter and that every other eye in the establishlued upon him To assume an air of nonchalance and thereby impress and disarlass holder near the center of the table and upset the sugar bowl Ilared ferociously at the ceiling He could feel the roots of his hair being consulance that required all his will power to consummate showed him that no one appeared to have noticed his faux pas and Willie was again slowly returning to normal when the proprietor of the restaurant came up from behind and asked hihtful a half hour as that within the brilliant interior of The Elite Restaurant Twenty-threefor his order to be served and sevenhis check Willie'swas in itself a sermon on efficiency--there was no lost motion--no waste of time He placed hishis has into pieces of a size that would per; then hehis knife and fork alternately with bewildering rapidity shot a continuous strea etable in a side-dish and as dessert four prunes The etable dish on the empty plate, seized a spoon in lieu of knife and fork and--presto! the side-dish was empty Whereupon the prune dish was set in the empty side-dish--four deft motions and there were no prunes--in the dish The entire feat had been acco a neorld's record for red-headed farmer boys with one splay foot