Connecticut western news., 1909-01-14

y who put the cigarette between its isn't allowedP"
 "Oh, you must have been told this yarn by some mean, contemptible'- Not bit of it. No one told me-" 'Then how did you get on to it?''
 ''Never mind that. Was it neces- sary that you should put a nickel be- tween the horrid things finger bones and say, Here, Billy, pay your fare like man?"
 Did we do that"
 'Yes. you did"
 You mean Dick did it."
 Ut doesn't matter which of you did it. You were both acting like ghouls. And if you didn't do it you did some thing equally frightful."
 What was that?"
 You said: Billy, you ought to have worn your overcoat. You'll catch cold '" "I-I was thinking of the real person the skeleton was before he died"
 "Oh, you were! Then why did you laugh when Dick said, He slipped out the back door and got away from his poor old mother, who was chasing him with his rubbersP"
 Did laugh at that?"
 You know very we'll you laughed at it."
 Tt wasn't funny at all, was itP'
 "Funnyl It was shocking"
 Well, Dick, he''-
 "Oh. yes; it's always Dick, he.' Thaffc hn xxrI nryt nf everything. Whose hat was on the things head?"
 T put my hat on it. but only for minute"
 "And said, There's too much draft for bald head.'"
 'That wasn't funny either"
 ''It was revolting."
 A pause.
 q wish you'd tell me how you got on to all this"
 Perhaps you don't remember a girl over her face to protect her from the storm and hung on to a strap. The thing was sitting on your lap"-
 "Oh, my"-
 And you said-what did you say?" ''I don't remember"
 Don't remember! You said, Get up, Billy, and give the lady your seat" A pause-a dreadful pause.
 And the girl was"-
 "One who had often sat on your lap and felt your arms about her and your kisses. To think that I should have been forced to listen to such words and see that awful thing sitting in my place! I can't bear the thought of it." Another very long pause.
 ''What did you do?'
 What did I do? I know what I wanted to do. I wanted to tell the conductor to let me get off, but just then a gentleman-a real gentleman, such as always supposed you to be arose and gave me his seat. I shut my eyes to keep from looking at the grin ming ghost opposite, but I kept my ears open to hear what next the man l have loved would say" CWeeps) A pause. in which the young man looks at the ceiling, the floor, the walls, anything, everything except the girl; then he gulps sorrowfully:
 "I suppose it's all over between us?" "I should think so."
 "This evening I'll not have you by me, as usual. You'll not sit on my lap; my hearth Rpt beat against yours. I'll sit alone in my room, with no one to comfort me except'-
 A pause.
 Who'll comfort you"
 None but Billy"
 You don't deserve any one-I mean lnything-else."
 It'll be awful lonesome sitting there that way"
 What wayF"
 With nobody but Billy"
 An ominous pause. any moreT'
 No answer.
 You know I've always loved you, never any one else in the world. It's pretty hard to have no real person to love, only a''-
 No encouragement.
 'Goodby."
 He takes her hand, and she mskes 6 feint at withdra wing 1t.
 Just one kiss before we part"
 Not a single one"
 I'll never, never do anything to of- send you again"
 Silence.
 Wont you forgive me? If go to that awful room with that awful thing .heTe I do believe I'll blow out my orains."
 He draws her down into his lap.
 Curtain.
 L,I-EENE HDI NIES RIIRT