New-York tribune., 1907-12-22

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Jules looks such swell in his city clothes that
She most tears the shingles off the back she'd sdin
down to meet him.
one OF the chorus a musical comedy linn and
Felce pastes labels side by side, and durln the
lunch hour Jules plans how they'll have quiet
weddn and furnish three rooms over the dehcateSSen
store Then Emil butts in He begins hangln
over the bench to watch Felice work, and the tTst
thing she knows she's promoted to the Once ana
set 10 addressirl circulars From that the plot
gums up; but Jules don't miStrust anything until
one pay day when without any "arntn he handed
How's this2' SAYS he Have been pastin'
Emil saws no. but they always run short handed
durin' the summer. and he might call around again
next fall
on. she's all right says Emil She's quite as
much OF a peach as YOU described, more So IN fact
And seeing that You'll be carrying the banner Tor
sometime I've decided to marry her myself
At that Jules throws a lit. but when Fehce steps
in and explains through the desk grating that she
sorry but he s only false alarm, while Emil IS the
one best bet his Corscan blood goes up to fever
heat Inside of the next three days Jules IS thrown
out OF the actry four times and on his last trip a
husky porter kicks him all the way to the gate
while Felice stands at a window and grlnS-
lust at that point he buys this trick KNIFE with
the spring blade His next move is to stand on the
church steps and make a VOW that 50 long as he
can hate he will follow the trail of this curr-rSed
Emil Bourdonne until he has Il chance to carve his
initials on his inner works
But he against SllHtE CUSTOMER. MI
Bourdonne not only has him put under bonds to
keep the peace, but he gets hlm out OF the dis
trict SO Jules drifts into table d h6te place and
learns to be 4 waiter He settles down for a long
wait too. Every report he gets OF Emil
only piles up the agony. The weddm
has been pulled off in fine shape. the bril-
hantine business is boomin and the happy
couple is movin' into double breasted
mansion with fountain on the front lawn
Jules sharpens up his knife and hisSeS
Corscan GUS words through his front
he. hear hat mi has
opened a London branch and has moved
across the Channel Jules trails along toe
He grows side whiskerS and hires himself
out as a butler, havin a fool idea that
he'll be on hand somewhere when EN-, i
asked to dinner, But there's nothn dom
The calendar moves on, year after year
Emil has got be a reg lar brhantine
king with his blown a million
bottles every season. while Jules is only
front butler for man that runs an ale
brewery.
AT last Jules gets word that Emil has
gone into the export business SO bg that
he's just likely to turn up in New York
as anywhere; he comes here
Findin' the wages better and the tips bigger
he stays, And that's the whole histry
down to date. ~
And how far back was it, do you say q
that Felice squeezed the lime juice in Your II
eye?' says l.
How long?" says he Why, viem. :.
eTgHt-et- y-tWO years this spring. 4U!f
"A crouch old enough to vote!" says L lsIsaA
tIeel' HlfifA1
+: s 4; $ ;::' IS: !;
make a guess It's of pipe NsnV
dream Maybe he had been real wrathv WHl
once, when he young and full of ginger n neVN(
but twenty-odd years of steppn soft and
lively to answer the buZzer. of bowin and = IN
rapin' and holdin the door open had S$t5
simmered him down until he was as harm
less air gun with busted spring
What he'd had his mind set all this time
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