The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
END OF CHEEDLE.

81 know her, ;" groaned sis he mar
ried muoh?''
"Oh, frightfully, Bass replied. "He
never comes here now"
"Has he been like it long?''
"He came back from the honeymoon
just month ago."
Have you seen him lately?"
''Saw him the night before last
'How did he seem?"
Wonderfully cheerful, / thought,
considering
'Duplicity, said 1.
"He says he pities single Johnnies %
"Bravado, l murmured.
"And that if he had his time over
again he would do just the same''
He was never one to profit by expe-
rience," I remarked. And I added,
"Poor old Joei''
Sometimes I almost envy him, :"
said Bass.
"My dear BassI''
"After all, he is at rest.
is at rest?" l wondered.
"What will you have?" asked Bass.
81 will have an explanation from
him." replied.
II mean," said he, "what will you
have to drink?''
"Gall would be appropriate, said 1.
1.-TWO brandies, with small soda
split" said Bass to Louis, the waiter.
ST am sorry now that I went to
Paris / observed.
zone often is, sighed Bass.
"If had stood by him this might
never have occurred.
''That is what we all said. Why did
you go?"
az went to seek forgetfulness. -
81 heard all about that affair."" said
Bass sympathetically. "We all thought
she behaved
Like a woman, INTERCEPTED bit.
terly.
"Yes-shamefully," said he.
SIS she'-
"Not yet. % he replied "But I hear
it is to be soon. -
81 hope she will be as happy-aa
happy as she deserves to be. )" said 1.
"You should be more charitable, Z"
said Bass. "You should remember that
she is woman.
81 have not forgotten it, cried.
sis yours Miss
'Not yet, said he. "But it is i'm,
minent.
"What sort of man is he?"
"Quite an inferior brand"
Beautiful women are invariably I'M.
fortunate in their husbands, !" said I.
"Thank you, old chap" said Bass.
"Or are you being ironical?"
"Two brandies and a small soda split,
sir, murmured Louis.
We slipped gloomily.
''The ranks thin woefully fast" said
Bass. "There's Jewson gomez
"He fell at Dieppe.'
"There's Overs"
"And Wigramp'
"And Hansel, and now Cheedle."
COVERS, said /, deserved a better
fate. OF Hansel it would be kinder not
to speak. -
1.-THE old guard" sighed Bass. do
you remember Migrants last words?"
Brave words. "
"And the occasion?''
''We were supping at Verrey's.
'How did he put it?''
"'There are two kinds of burial-in-
terment and marriage he said. And
six weeks later the wedding bells rang
out his requiem"
A footstep sounded behind us, and a
voice exclaimed
Hello, you fellows. What are you
looking SO blue about?'' / turned and
confronted Cheedle. 81 heard you had
returned" he said. 'How are your"
81 am free," answered.
81 see you know all about it,, was
his unblushing rejoinder. "Well, it Is
what we must all come to sooner or
later. You will find your affinity some
day"
(Which of us do you mean?' asked
Bass resentfully.
"Both of you," said Cheedle.
eff both of us find any affinity, there
will be trouble" said l.
"You understand me-" he said. "But
surely you are not drinking brandy and
soda?"
at would seem So, 1 replied with
hauteur.
"At this time of day?"
"Or any time,r said l.
"You shouldn't, you know" he said.
"It's awfully bad for your inside"
after all, it is my inside, ! retort-
ed.
1.-THE stomach began Cheedle.
'The stomach" said !, sis no doubt
a very necessary part of the human
body. But as a tonic of conversation it
fails to interest me-.
"When you are married" = said
Cheedle.
"When l am married. said /, at
shall try to conceal the ravages of inev-
liable deterioration.
"You will be very interesting.
81 shall be unique" said I.
'There's an argument in favor of
marriage said he.
"A fox, being caught in a steel trap
by his tail, said 1 solemnly, was glad
to compound for his escape with the
loss of it, but upon coming abroad into
the world he began to be sensible of the
disgrace -
Sometimes, " said Cheedle critical.
iy, ''you approximate slightly to the
ass.
"You don't approximate, retorted.
"You are the ass, pure and exceedingly
simple.
81 am too happy to quarrel with you.
Phil he said. laughing. "even If ]