The Newark journal., 1906-03-02
BERTHE AND HIS
HONEYMOON
BY JOHN WORNE
copyrightl 1905, BY Joseph B. Bowles.l

reproachfully, leaning back in the
carriage, as they drove off to the
station.
Done what?' asked Eva.
Married ne" said Berthe.
You suggested it, said Eva.
who was the fellow who said a
lot of foolish things and never did a
wise one?"
Whoever he was he probably held
his tongue for the first half hour of
his honeymoon"
For a few minutes there was peace
and love.
Eva broke the silence. q wish you
were not quite so concelted, dear"
Is that quite fair? You know l
have always admitted everything you
have said about my nose. My at
my rank humility"
And a very good one, too" said
Eva.
Very we'll" said BERTHE; very
well. If ones own wife"
The expression was so novel and
phasizing it in the usual way.
If ones own wife" BERTHE con-
tinued
People can see in at the windows, :"
said Eva. moving further away from
him.
AL right; we're married"
How are they TO know?"
That seemed reasonable.
If ones owl wife sees through
one" he went on in an injured tone,
where on earth is one safe?'
And if ones wife doesn't see
through one, who on earth is there to
improve one by frank critieism?"
OH" said BERTHE, you married me
to improve me"
4 did not altogether despair .
This is a pretty state of things, ="
said BERTHE; and again. this is a pref
ty state of things
Il marry a wife" he moaned, and
suddenly, without warning, she sug-
gests that she can improve me. Never
before has anybody suggested that 1
could be improved
Was it SO hopeless ?"
He stared blankly out of the win
dow
I'VE can still be friends. she said.
"Friends!9 he echoed "Friends
That it should come to this, that it
should come TO this"
Need you say everything twice;
need you say everything twice." she
murmured, drearily.
I thought many things, but l never
thought we should be friends .
Things often turn out better than
we expect
The carriage drew up. He looked
out. This seems very like railway
station. Where are you thinking of
going for your honeymoon"
Il was thinking of Sir John Ward
laws little place near Torquay."
Really" he said with some show
of interest. How awfully jolly. May
| get You a ticket?'
Thank you very much. And one
for my maid"
He went to the booking Office and
was back in a few minutes with the
tickets.
Thank you" she said. And where
are you thinking of going for your
honeymoon?
Il? Oh, l haven't quite made up
my mind. A run down to Margate
perhaps-a little Whit of the briny-
as married men say"
His man. Samson. came up at the
moment to mention that the luggage
was all in.
who told you to put mine in this
train?"
Samson expressed no surprise, but
admitted that he had done it on his
own initiative. misled by recent events
into a false inference OF fact.
1T is very good of you" said Eva,
Ito come and see me off like this"
Not at ALL" said BERTHE, anybody
in my position would have done as
much and more"
BERTHE raised his hat with cheer
full smile and the train was gone.
He turned round and found Samson
sitting on the largest portmanteau,
scratching his worried head. rs any
body likely now asked BERTHE Ito
mistake us for a newlE-married pair"
mo, sir; but if that was the object,
sir, amt the means to it rather
strong?"
BERTHE took a turn up and down the
platform.
when is the next train to Tor
quay?" he asked. abruptly
Samson replied with alacrity: -Four
thirty-nine, sir.
"Three-quarters of an hour" BERTHE
grumbled Get tickets" He had de-
cided to forgive her. AT last the 439
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