fixtures of the general store conducted here by D. Gladstein,
deceased, were closed out last week, and his widow, who recently
married B. Gurin, sailed from New York with her husband yesterday
for Hamburg. It is understood that they intend to reside
permanently in Europe.

While Morris perused the item Abe gradually recovered his composure, and
when his partner at last put down the paper Abe was able to smile the
slow, ghostly smile of a man who has called four deuces with an ace
full.

"Well, Mawruss," he said resignedly, "a feller must expect the worst
when he's got an optician for a partner."




[Transcriber's Note:

Punctuation has been regularized, except for inconsistent hyphenation,
which has been retained as in the original.

The following typographic errors have been corrected:

Page 109 "woud" changed to "would"
Page 223 "cired" changed to "cried"
Page 234 "it it" changed to "it is"
Page 352 "successs" changed to "success"

The following were each used once and were not changed: