The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-28
1O6 S. MAIN STREE 7.

subject OF Yonks just keep it to yourself
until the first Of the month viii your"
He winj<cd and grinned.
Until the first of the month" he re-
pcated. and Garrick nodded
On the 10th the town temporarily forgot
YonkS, ior Miss Hctty ArSdale was that
day married. and lett In shower OF rice
and sincere tears. for Scotland; but on
the 2lSt GonkS was again the one great
topic. Miss Garrick had written long
letter TO her friend, Miss Mowry. Miss
Garrick had met the Miss Van Dolsen
who was wintcring in Florida, and before
the day was over every one I'm W.gham-
ton, except Van Dolsen, knew what she
had written.
As Van Dolsen solemnly walked the
main street his friends looked at him and
Grinned. AS first he felt at the back of
his collar TO see II his tie had slipped UP
in the back. Later he glanced curiously
into the mirrors made by the store win
dows TO see If his face was smutted.
Finally he went into the Continental no.
tel barber shop and examined himself
carefully In the long mirror there He
did not notice Tom Garrick lying In one
OF the barber chairs until the barber TIT
cd the chair upright and Garrck
grinnCd a him from collar OF towel
Hello, Dick"' he exclaimed, you look
disturbed
Van Dolsen frowned
Tom, he said, 81 can't help thinking
Garrick smiled. The barber was rub
bling his hair vigorously In white suds.
les, he Salu, poor plu lplhS' We
al feel for you. Van. It's hard to die,
Cut down in ones youth, leaving a loving
relative ike youi'
He spoke jerkily for the barber was
doing his fun duty by his head.
Such a shock, too. he continued.
These sudden deaths Jar a fellow So
They como so unexpectedly. You never
know who you are going TO mourn for
next Whether"
Van Dolscn came and stood beside him
Whether" said GarriclC, 1T will be
crepe FOR Marc Antony. or Moses Or
Ton" said Van Dolsen, what do you
mean?"
Garrick. released by the barber, laughed
and felt his chin and checks
Poor Gonks!" he said. Poor Nonks.'
Van Dolscn laughed too.
How is your sister," he asked. and
then they both laughed
Fine as SILK" said Garrick. She's
well acquainted with Miss Van Dolsen
now. She wrote fun particulars to Miss
Mowry. Says Miss Van Dolsen was sur
priSed at first TO hear OF Yonlts's death.
Couldn't place Yonks. somehow Then
she got out that genealogy your wife
compiled and she says the only Yonks
she could find In IL was certainly dead
CROUCH. because he had been dead since
1919
Van Dolsen began to whistle He took
his poCllctknifo from his right vest pocket
and opened the small blade. He carefully
ripped the crepe band from his hat and
dropped 1t gently into The open barrel
stove, where a coal flre glowcd
Tom" he said, 1t was strain on me
to mourn for that dear departed ancestor.
! couldn't seem 10 get into the proper
spirit. He was dead all right and he was
a Van Dolscn all right. bur I couldn't feel
a panS. | guess II was because he was 80
extremely dead. When an ancestor has
been dead over two centuries q man has
to be a flrst-class professional mourner to
do him Justice, and I'm a rank amateur"
Dick, he said, what did you do II
for?'
We'll. now, Tom" replied Van Dolsen
Il am an amateur. and ! know II. and /
up Il littlc, Gonks didn't mind l."
He would say no moro, nnc FOR two
days Wighnmptou was Obliged ro endau-
1t finally decided that either E:rs. Van
DolScn had been suffering from mental
unbalance or that she had raised her an