Never Too Old

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Bill Bowser and Jim Levison are old cronies (with the accent on the old), but though Bill has been cheating the undertaker for the last ten years he still feels young enough to fall in love, and the sight of a couple of lovers turns his thoughts to matrimony. He replies to an advertisement in which a dashing young widow offers to become the bride of a wealthy old man. Bill has three hundred dollars and a half interest in an old shack, but in his letter he becomes a millionaire with a handsome country seat. He is invited to come to town and visit the lady. She insists on a diamond engagement ring and takes Bill's money from him to purchase it with, which is the signal for her husband to enter and scare Bill half to death with his threats. Bill goes home a sadder and wiser man. It doesn't even help much when the supposed dashing widow gets conscience stricken and sends back the money, suggesting that he buy a nice tombstone with it. but it does enable him to get back at Jim when the latter comes to crow over him.