"Why, don't you know? It's a divorce!"
The young man grew pale.
"I thought," he said, "you loved me."
"Why, of course I love you, but I simply couldn't resist such a bargain as that."
She pointed to a sign. Charlie looked at it and read:
THIS DAY ONLY!
Our Regular Divorces Marked Down
From $2.75 to $1.69
NOT IN IT
ANONYMOUS
They built a church at his very door—
"He wasn't in it."
They brought him a scheme for relieving the poor—
"He wasn't in it."
Let them work for themselves, as he had done,
They wouldn't ask help from any one
If they hadn't wasted each golden minute—
"He wasn't in it."
So he passed the poor with haughty tread—
When men in the halls of virtue met
He saw their goodness without regret;
Too high the mark for him to win it—
"He wasn't in it."
A carriage crept down the street one day—
"He was in it."
The funeral trappings made a display—
"He was in it."
St. Peter received him with book and bell;
"My friend, you have purchased a ticket to—well,
Your elevator goes down in a minute."
"He was in it!"