68 MYSTIC ISLES 



"Oui, oui!" said the red-faced lad5^ "Dooze cocktail! 

 Vous savez cocktail, a la mode des ancients? Gin, oon 

 dash bittair, lem' et soda!" 



''Mais, madame, douze cochtaiir and the half-caste 

 Chinese girl held up all her fingers and added two more, 

 "Vous n 'etes que quatre id! Quatre cocktails, n 'est-ce 

 pasr 



"Dooze gin, dooze Manhattan? My heavens! They 

 ought to understand my French in this out-of-the-way 

 place when they do in Paris. Listen! Dooze is two 

 in French," and she held up two pudgy fingers. But 

 Temanu was gone and returned with four cocktails 

 made after her own liking. 



All the girls, Atupu, Iromea, Pepe, Maru, Tetua, 

 and Mme. Rose and Mama-Maru, helped in the service, 

 some beginning with shoes and stockings, but soon slip- 

 ping them off as the crowd grew and their feet became 

 weary. Lovaina herself moved happily about the salle- 

 a-manger telling her friends that she was a grandmother. 

 A letter had given the information that her daughter 

 had a child. She was a doting parent, and we all must 

 toast the newborn. Two grave professors of the Uni- 

 versity of California, ichthyologists or entomologists, 

 sat entranced at the unconventionality of the scene, 

 drinking vin ordinaire and gazing at the Tahitian girls, 

 or eating breadfruit, raw fish, and taro, as if they were 

 on Mars and did not know how they got there. 



I saw an entry in Lovaina's dav-book on the table: 



"Germani to Fany 3 feathers." 



This was a charge made by Atupu against a Dane for 

 three cocktails. He took his meals at Mme. Klopfer's 

 restaurant. Her first name is Fanny, and Atupu 



