The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-25
A Love Spat.

bonL sweetheart me!'
"For heavens sake, what can have
made this changer
IN never marry a medical man;
that's what I'd rather marry an un.
dertaker.n
But you have made no objection to
my studying medicine before now"
"A sexton In a cemetery would be
far preferable to sawbones."
Come, tell me what has happened
to excite this antagonlsm to the no.
blest Of the professions
Weren't you and Dick Trimming.
ham riding in a trolley yesterday on
College street?"
IL was"
"And who was the third person of
the partyT
I'VE had a skeleton with us. We
were taking II TO our rooms"
"And who was the person you called
BillyT
why, that was what we called the
skeleton"
$50, indeed, you called 1t Billy? And
who put the cigarette between its
Jaws and said, Don't smoke, Billy; It
isn't allowedY"
"Oh, you must have been told this
yarn by some mean, contemptible"-
"Not bit Of II. No one told me-"
'Then how did you get on to it?v
Never mind that. Was It neces-
sary that you should put nickel be-
tween the horrid things finger bones
and say, Here, Billy, pay your fare
like mann"
'Did we do thatT ,Sxs
Eyes, you did"
"You mean Dick did It,"
at doesn't matter which of you did
1t. You were both acting like ghouls.
And If you didn't do it you did some
thing equally frightful."
"What was thatg
"You said Billy, you ought to have
worn your overcoat. You'll catch cold >"
I'll was thinking OF the real person
the skeleton was before he died"
"Oh, you werel 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 rubbersT"
"Did / laugh at THAR"
"You know very well you laughed at
It..
ut wasn't funny at all, was itr'
FUNNY 1t was shocking"
"Weli, Dick, he"
"0h, yes; it's always Dick, he.'
That's the way you crawl out of
everything. Whose hat was on the
things headT
Il put my hat on II, but only for a
minute"
.'And said, There's too much draft
for bald head
"That wasn't funny either"
ut Was revolving"
A pause
Il wish you'd tell me how you got /
on to all this
Perhaps you don't remember girl |
who got into the car with thick veil /
over her face to protect her from the
storm and hung on to strap. The
thing was sitting on your lap
"Oh, N.Y.
"And you said-what did you say?''
II don't remember"
"Don't rememberI You said, Get up.
Billy, and give the lady your seat.'o
A pausea dreadful pause.
"And the girl was
"One who had often sat on your lap
md 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
placel can't bear the thought Of it,"
Another very long pause.
What did you do?"
"What did I do? know what I
wanted to do. wanted to tell the
conductor TO let me get or, but Just
then a gentleman-a real gentleman,
such as always supposed you to be-
arose and gave me his seat. | shut my
eyes to keep from looking at the grin
ming ghost opposite, but kept my
ears open to hear what next the man
/ have loved would say (Weeps.)
A pause, in which the young man
looks at the ceiling, the floor, the
walls, anything, everything except the
girl: then be, gulps sorrowfully;
Il suppose it's all over between us?'
II should think So"
ssThis evening I'LL not have you by
me, as usual You'll not sit on my lap:
my hearth not beat against yours.
I'll sit alone in my room, with no one
&r as.s., Fart sYaa s
A pause.
who'll comfort your
'sNone but Billy"
ssYou don't deserve any one--T mean
anything else
.Tt'll be awful lonesome sitting there
that way"
what way?'
with nobody but Billy
An ominous pause.
Suppose promise never to do so
any more?'
No answer
sYou know I've always loved you,
ever 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 makes a
feint at Withdrawing It,
"Just one kiss before we part.
mot a single one"
s'I'll never, never do anything to Of
fend you again"
Silence