The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
MIR. PUDSTER'S RETURN.
CHAPTER /.

Maggleby were bosom friends, nor could
they well be otherwise. They were
both born on the Goth of May, 1915, in
Cover Street, Bloomsbury; Solomon
entering upon the worlds stage at an
early hour in the morning, at No. 60,
and Gideon first seeing the light about
midday at No. So. At the age of ten
the boys were sent to Westminster
School; at the age of seventeen they
became fellow-clerks in the great West
India warehouse of Ruggleton, Malta &
Co. at the age of four-and-tweuty they
went into partnership as sugar mer-
chants in Mincing Lane. At that period
they were bachelors; and beng already
sincerely attached one to the other,
they decided to live together in a pleas
ant little house in the then fashionable
neighborhood of Fitzroy Square. For
years they were almost inseparable.
Day after day they breailfasted and
dined together at home, and worked
and lunched together in the city; and
but for the fact that the firm purchased
a large sugar estate in Demerara, Solo
mon Pudster and Gideon Maggleby
would probably have never been parted
for more than a few hours at a time I'M
Til death decreed q dissolution of their
partnership. The sugar estate, unfor-
tunately, required a great deal of looking
after; and at regular intervals of two
years, n of the partners was obliged
to cross the Atlantic and to remain alb
sent from his friend for five or six
months. Solomon and Gideon alter
nately undertook these troublesome ex-
petitions, and braved the heat and
mosquitoes of the tropics; and mean
time the firm Of Pudster and Maggleby
prospered exceeding; and no shadow of
a cloud came between the devoted friends
THE former of whom, on account of his
beingafew hours the older, was declared
senior partner in the firm.
But in the wear 1866 an important
event happened. Mr.. Pudster and Mr..
Maggleby ran down by train one even
ing to see the fireworks at the Crystal
Palace; and on their return journey
they found themselves in a compart-
ment the only other occupant of which
was q remarkably bnxom and CHEEKY
looking widow Of about forty years of
age. The two gentlemen, with their
ACCUSTOMED g~allantry, entered into con-
Tessatien with her. They discovered
that she and they had several friends
IN common, and that she was, N fact, a
certain Mrs. Bunter, whose many do
mestic virtues and Astounding good-na-
ture had often been spoken of in their
hearing. They were charmed with her;
Ahey begged, as if with one accord, to
Do permitted to cali upon her at her
house in Chelsea; and when, after put
ting her into a cab at Victoria Station,
they started off to walk home, they sim
ultaneously exclaimed with enthusiasm
What d splendid womanl"
aAh, Gideoni" ejacnlated Mr.. Pud-
ster sentimentaily, q few moments lat
ser.
"Ah, Solomon" responded Mr.. Mag
gleby with equal passion.
"If only we had such an angel at
home TO welcome usl' continued the
senior partner.
"Just what I was thinking e~ssented
Mr.. Maggleby, who thereupon looked
up at the moon and sighed profoundly,
mo other woman ever affected us ia
that way. Gideon" said Mr.. Pudster
sand here we are at fifty
FIFTY last May, Solomon"
well we ought to know betterr r. ex
claimed Mr.. Pudster with warmth.
$50 we ought, Solomon
"But upon my word and honor, Gid
con, Mrs. Bunter's q magnificent spec
linen 81 her own sex
"She is, Solomon; and I don't thinl
we can conscientiously deny that we ar
III love with her"
I'VE are said Mr.. Pudster will
ymuch humility.
Having thus ingeniously confesse,
their passion, the two gentlemen walke1
On III silence; and II WAS not until the
We're near home that they again spoke
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