This is the first time I've been sober in a month.

It's drink or morphine or something like.

Do you ever see anything of the old glee boys ?" "Once in a while.

You know," said I, lighting a cigarette, "all the fellows but you and I had money.

Most of them are carrying on the business of their paters and ornamenting dinner parties and cotillions." "I thought that you had a rich uncle," said Dan.
"I did have, but he is no more," and I told him all about the bequest.
He laughed so long and heartily over it that I was glad for his sake that it had happened.