Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-06-28

unprotected felt, after the stron1
trust and sweet reliance that had
been mine!
"I-I haven't any money!" I said
in a faint voice. "You'll have t.
put me out somewhere, suppose,
l added, with despairing resigna
ton.
"Allow me, madam,"-the nous
tauched gentleman was up, pocked
book in hand-"let me arrange this
matter for you until we reach Phila
delphia. Your husband can settle
it with me afterwards" he said
giving me his card with smile.
If hadn't been married, should
have fallen in love with that delight
full man on the spot. AS it was
only murmured some unintclligible
thanks and slipped his card into
my pocket as momento of mod
ern knight.
We were to have stopped all
night in Philadelphia. AS the train
neared the city new perplcxity
seized upon me. Where could goi
If it were daylight, might remain
in the ladies' waitingroom; but Fred
would not arrive until nearly ten al
night. / had no money to pay a
hackman, go to hotel, or even get
my supper.
A sudden thought flashed into
NV mind-Aunt Tabby lived in
Philadelphia! l had directed a
letter to her, only a few weeks
before, announcing my approaching
marriage. True, the reply was
rather discouraging--being dismally
prophetic of all sorts of evils that
awaited me, and darkly suggestive
of the snares and pitfalls in that
broad road that leads to matrimony
and destruction.
But Aunt Tabby took a vinegary
view OF everything. She never had
felt the mellowing influence Of a
honeymoon.
We arrived at the depot; my
noustached friend had left the car
some time before, so l was unpro-
tectcd again. An army of hackmen
besieged the door Of the depot, and
I Immediately became the subject Of
a struggle. Oaths and whips re-
sounded about my ears, until l was
finally seized upon and carried off
by the most energetic of the party,
a redhcaded Irishman, whose sue
cess arose no doubt from his ma
tional proclivity for anything re-
sembling a fight.
Having secured me in a very
dirty vehicle, he regarded me with
Il triumphant grin.
eff You will get my trunk now,
please" l suggested.
"Your thrunk is it? Where's
the bit Of tin?"
"The-what?" l asked in per-
plexity.
"The tin-the bit Of tin, to be
sure. How am l to get it widout
the tin?''
My check! I had forgotten that
Fred had the checks also. Alas!
for the powerlcssness of woman!
saw my new Saratoga, filled with
the daintiest of trousseaus, bundled
off with a load OF hotel baggage,
and couldn't raise a finger to claim
it. 1t was the last straw on the
camels back, and l drove in tears
to Aunt Tabby's, using my tissue
veil as a pocket handkerchief, and
thereby unconsciously tattooing my
face with streaks of blue.
Even Aunt Tabby's monumental
rigiditY was overcome by my ap-
pearance, when she met me at her
immaculate doorstep.
LEFT you! And only married
three days! Pay that hackman,
Mary Jane, and send him off before
he sees any more of this family dis
grace! Only three days! The Lord
have mercy on us! That / should
have lived to see brother Henry's
child brought to this. Taken all
your money and clothes too! Well!
well, it's nothing more or less than
l expected. Only an accident!
Don't talk to me OF accidents! If
you ever lay your eyes on that man
again my name is not Tabitha Tin
tstich! The mean spirited scoun-
drel! To leave you without rag
to your back! You poor, deluded
innocent! Put on the kettle, Mary
Jane, and hurry up the tea; this
poor child is trembling like a leaf,
and we'll she may!,
l was too dispirited and misera-
bic to attempt to stem the torrent OF
Aunt Tabby's Indignation. Ilet her
talk on.
ooh! and aint it dreadful, mum?"
I heard the sympathetic Mary Jane
murmur, aside, to her mistress;
"such sweet young creeter as she!
And only look at her face! l ex-
pect he's been banging of her."
Aunt Tabby pursed up her mouth,
and shook her head expressively.
'Lct this be warning to you,
Mary Jane."
On, I'm sure IL Will mum, was
the feeling reply.
''She1l never lay eyes on him
again." repeated Aunt Tabby,
solemnly "never! Lord bless my
soul! Who's that?"
There was a knock at the door
that fairly shook the prim little
house,
'Is my wife herc?" asked quick
anxious voice, and the next moment
Fred's wife was there, clasped in
the strong, brave arms-crying and
laughing together on the broad
loving breast.
"How did you get here SO sooni
How did yon find me? Oh, Fred
Fred! have been so frightened anc
miserable!"
Fred's answer was shower o
kisses.
"How did | come? In a coal car
There was train of them just be
r hind. 1t was not the pleasantes
ride in the world, but it brough
a.