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Whenever the tube of radium was drawn away more than two or three feet the phosphoresce ceased; whenever it was placed under the tureen the diamond immediately phosphoresced again.
Stir quickly with the spoon, and when the soup has done its eight minutes' boiling, pour it on the egg and butter in the tureen. This is an extremely good soup. It is rendered still better by a small quantity of Bovril. Put a bone of veal on to cook in water, with four or five potatoes, according to the quantity desired.
When they are quite clear, which should be in half an hour, take them off, and put them into a tureen. Boil the syrup five minutes longer, and pour it hot over the peaches. When they are cool, put them into glass jars, and tie them up with paper dipped in brandy laid next to them. Apricots, nectarines, and large plums maybe preserved in the same manner.
"Well, a day or two afterwards, when I returned from drill, Nikifor says to me: 'We oughtn't to have left our tureen with the old lady, I've nothing to serve the soup in. "I asked how it came about that the tureen had been left.
"À table, Messieurs!" cries M. Siron, bearing through the court the first tureen of soup. And immediately the company begins to settle down about the long tables in the dining-room, framed all round with sketches of all degrees of merit and demerit. There's the big picture of the huntsman winding a horn with a dead boar between his legs, and his legs well, his legs in stockings.
This of course attracted attention, and on inspection, the liquid was discovered to be full of short hairs. The servants in attendance were questioned, but they declared they were ignorant of the cause; and the wisest and politest proceeding was, to send the tureen from the table, and, serving the fish, make no further comment.
As Rose went faster Mme. Lefevre cried: "Wait for me, Rose, wait for me!" At night they were haunted by frightful nightmares. Mme. Lefevre dreamed she was sitting down at table to eat her soup, but when she uncovered the tureen Pierrot was in it. He jumped out and bit her nose. She awoke and thought she heard him yelping still. She listened, but she was mistaken.
Wretched Gustave, so be it! Meanwhile the boy with the juggler's motions appeared with the soup, and made exactly the same gestures when he uncovered the tureen as Robert Houdin would have made, and one was surprised not to see a bunch of flowers or a live rabbit fly out. But no! it was simply soup, and the guests attacked it vigorously and in silence.
The colonel laughed, seized the poker, and rapped three times on the floor. A voice from the kitchen rumbled up: "Comin', sah!" It was Chad "dishin' the dinner" below, his explanations increasing in distinctness as he pushed the rear door open with his foot, both hands being occupied with the soup tureen which he bore aloft and placed at the head of the table.
He was dressed in a new suit of the white clothes of his calling, and on his round chin grew a few dark downy hairs, which he fingered every other moment. He was waiting excitedly until the old man had finished, so that he might drink brotherhood with him. "And now, my lad," said Stolpe, taking the cover from the "tureen," "now you are admitted to the corporation of masons, and you are welcome!
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