The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-08-23
ROLAND AND
OLIVER
By S. E. KISER.


an age since | came away"
How long have you been here,
now?"
'It'll be FIVE years the 10th of next
month"
AS long as that? How time flies
Let's see-you'ye never been back at
all, have your"
No. I've been expecting every
summer to be able to get away for a
few weeks, but something has always
happened to upset my plans How is
everybody, anyhow"
"Oh, about the same. l suppose
you know that Dave Simmons and his
wife have parted?"
mo! Issthat SO? Well! What was
the trouble?"
Got tired Of leach other, I guess
Dave and Abbie Bran1weYl are to bel
married SOON"
"AbMe Bramwell? Why, she mar
ried Jim Hewlett"
yes, but they were divorced over a
year ago"
THE dickens you say!"
Tom Deckers wife was mentioned
as correspondent in their case"
Fanny Deck-for heavens sake!
There wasn't any truth in it, was
there?"
Il don't know. They kept it out of
the papers, The Deckers are living
apart, though
by George! What next? Arthur
Creston and Madge Burroughs were
engaged to be married when left.
How are they getting along?"
They lived together about year
and a half. Sizes Frank Wehtworth's
wife now"
What! Well, I'm not so much sur
prised at that She and Arthur might
have known that they'd never get
along Stogether. What happened to
Franks first wife? Is she dead?'
Mo, she got divorce and went on
the stage. They say she's doing pretty
we'll. OF course, you've heard about
Billy Hemepway and his wife,"
They're not divorced, are they?"
: Il should say they were. She was
married to Fred Reyburn last fall, and
they say Billy and Freds former wife,
who, you remember, was Bertha
Steele, are going to try their fortunes
together"
Go on! You don't mean It? How
is your-ah-how Is Sam Davis get.
Sing along? 1t seems to me that l
heard somewhere not long ago that he
had lost most of his money"
Hes all right again. I guess he
did drop lot of it specializing, but
he had investments that turned out
very well, so he isn't hard up, by any
means He married Abbie Willard
after she and Joe were divorced"
Joe and Abbie Willard divorced?
we're the last people on earth that I'd
have expected to have trouble"
II guess it was Joe's fault He be-
came pretty gay after he got that
money from his grandfather"
Who's he going to marry?"
HE and Helen Bassett have been
married for nearly a year"
Helen Bassett?"
Eyes Dick Bassetts wife, you
know. Dick let her get divorce, and
Joe Willard is said to have given him
$40, 000 l don't know how true it Is"
Things seem to have been happen
ing since | left. How is your mean,
how are the Spencers getting along?"
do you mean Ed Spencer? He
and his wife got divorced and she and
Dick Bassett have since been married.
They say Ed and Wallace Harper's
former wife are likely to pair off be-
fere long"
rs Wallace dead?" ~
Hardly He's very much alive. He
and Alice Carter we're married three
weeks ago"
who is Alice Carter?"
why, you must know her. She
was Johnny Booths first wife Re-
suned her maiden name after their
divorce"
Great Scott! The Johnny Booths,
tool How is your-ah-and SO joan
ny's married again, too?'
Eyes. He married Maud Rankin.
There was a good deal of talk about
him and her before Johnny and Alice
separated"
There was, Ell? How is your
that is-are you travelling alone?"
mo. My wife's with me. How is
your-ah-do you like it here?"
YES. first rate / didn't at the start,
but I've become acquainted now, and
things have been coming my way
pretty regularly lately, so I'm very
well satisfied. I'd like to have you
and your wife come out to the house
and see us. Can't you come this eve
ning?'
Its mighty nice of you to ask us
out. I'll be glad to go, and think my
wife will appreciate it, too. Does your.