Young Mr. Newlywed dearly loves his wife but longs for a night at the club, so he has the boy send a telegram calling him to an important business conference. He hurries to the club, where a swallowtail has been provided for him, and he ...See moreYoung Mr. Newlywed dearly loves his wife but longs for a night at the club, so he has the boy send a telegram calling him to an important business conference. He hurries to the club, where a swallowtail has been provided for him, and he assists at a farewell bachelor dinner. Next door to him live two spinster sisters of uncertain age who are attending a suffragette meeting. A strenuous debate is before the members and they pay no heed to the hour. At last Mr. Newlywed finds that the lobster salad disagrees with him and the plum-pudding sauce has too much brandy, and he must be helped into a cab and the driver starts home with him. The night is dark and Newlywed gets into the spinsters' house and travels laboriously up the stairs, leaving mementos in the shape of shoes and other articles of apparel at every step. He tumbles wearily into the spinsters' bed and is soon asleep. The spinsters see it is three o'clock and start home and are horrified to see the shoes and other articles littering their neat staircase, but thinking it is the work of the man who lives upstairs they enter their room, see the stranger asleep and rush out shrieking for the police. This alarms him and he gets safely into his own house in time to see them return with two sturdy policemen who, finding the flat empty, suspect the old ladies of having imbibed too much and leave in disgust. Mr. Newlywed sees this through the keyhole of his door and is relieved to see the officers leave. And the wonder of it is that the unsuspecting wife slept through it all. Written by
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