Then a comfortable, pleasant-faced mulattress came to clear the supper-table.

Presently he went around through the side entrance, and thus came into the kitchen, where the old mulattress, Virginia, was sitting alone.

"'Scuse me for interruptin'," the old mulattress Virginia was saying, "but Mis' Pilkins sen' me say lunch raydy, Miss Patrisy.

The lady was quite handsomehad been more so, but was still youngspoke the beautiful language, and kept, in the inner room, her discreet and taciturn mulattress, a tall, straight woman, with a fierce eye, but called by the young Creoles of the neighborhood "confound' good lookin'.

The mulattress stood near him, and to her he addressed, in an undertone, most of the little he said, leaving Mademoiselle to his companion.

The mulattress in holiday gear followed behind.

" "Mulattress?" listlessly inquired Wilson, after grinning at the coin.

"Baille ma do l'eau" she called to the little mulattress, who responded by searching wildly for a cup and presently bringing a measuring-glass full of water.