The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-21

seem million years since really en-
gagged in such nonsense
He came away from the suburban re-
sort very early. AS he was preparing
TO turn N he noticed, under his wife's
bed. a pair Of her tiny high heeled
house slippers that she had probably
forgotten TO take with her. He pick
ed one Of the slippers up and stared
at it for long time.
Now, I wonder how the dickens she
ever gets the thing on?" he thought
Looks like ii was made for q doll.
wonder how the little snip is tonight,
anyway"
Then he took a sudden grab on him
self.
Say" he said. half aloud, 1--WE got
to cut this balderdash out. First thing
7 know I'll be q bug. Here I am
Numbering to myself-and after FIVE
years, at that That's funny. Five
years-um. Pretty decent five years
for you. old boy. Best five years you
ever put in-you sure were going the
distance at a bad clip when you-oh,
piffle, I'm going to bed"
The bed seemed rather 1umpy to him.
He remembered that it hadn't been
made up by his wife, but by the jani-
tress, who came in every day during
his absence at the office 10 look after
things-he got his meals at restau-
rants.
As he tried to get to sleep he fell
to thinking how reckless his wife had
always seemed TO him in her handling
Of horses. She was a natural horse
woman. but some Of those horses out
there at her fathers place in the West
were mighty wild and skittish, and
If she should take any unnecessary
chances and anything were to happen
to her
He found himself sitting up in bed,
in the darkness, in a fever.
''If anything should happen to heri
Here. by George. I'm going to have
a smoke," and he hoped out of bed
and turned on the light and sat srnok-
ing and fitting himself back and forth
in a rocker for a long while before
his nerves stopped jumping at the
thought of those horses at her faith
ers place in the West
On the next evening he went TO a
roof garden, still trying 70 warm UP
that bachelorish feeling. But ii was
no go.
same old crowd" he said to him
self. watching the people around the
tables. Same old making Of rings on
the tables with the bottoms Of glass
es. same old half rummy talk from
the men and hot air from the girls.
some old googoo eyes-same old every
thfng-can't see it-not for mine, and
again he executed an early getaway
| On the following night he foregath-
cred with a little poker bunch-three
| old nails of his bachelorhood- Somehow
! or other their conversation struck him
as being mighty frivolous, not 10 say
Jasmine.
He drank four OF five highballs dur
ling the sitting, but they made hin
uncomfortable. He hadn't drunk much
lin recent years-in five years, he re-
i1ected-and then, when 1t was up to
him. and he had threes TO open the big
gest jackpot of the evening, his m1nC
was way off on something or other
and he passed out, and his bachelor
mails rode hard on him and rounded MIN
out OF his trance and called him
imollusk and a dead one and a poppy
inhaler and such like. He got colo
feet and quit at midnight
/ The next evening was Saturday anH
J he hoped q train and went down Z
Atlantic City to spend Sunday ant
take "a peek at the good-looklne
women that are always on the Board
walk" as he said 10 himself. He spen
a dun day watching the girls IN bath
ling and on the piers with their gia'
lrars on. and on the train back he SAX
to himself:
Il didn't see any of 'em that 10
looks or style or git up or wlnsoIne
mess or anything else-didn't see ar!
lone Of 'em that had anything on tina
lIittIe side partner OF mine" and tnei
he added, rather petulantly. Dammit
Ian. I wish I could rig up some sort
ian excuse to get her home withou
Isbnwing myself up TO her. sure 90!
she curtaiIed her visit 10 her 1olA
m three weeks instead Of a month 10
in several of his letters he had hlhte'
that he wasn't feeling any too Wen.
He was at the station an hour oe1or
the train upon which she was que al
. -ixad There was q big lump IN al
Throat when he saw the train craWlln
into the station. But he downed IT,
HOY fine she looked 10 hiTE-oeaou
; lful. he thought-as she came LII ppm
t+oz,,a~5 the exit gate. waving her haht
! her ewes shining with affection!