Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-26
THE LOST Bride.
BY MATT LAMAR.

There was great crowd in the hall.
Everybody was talking in a high key,
and the orchestra in the back parlor was
fairly convulsing itself in the throes of a
pot-pourri.
At the top of the stairs was the bride.
She was a symphony in lavender. She
was not conventional girl, perhaps, but
in the matter of wedding garments she
had felt bound to follow precedent, and
she looked so irresistibly charming that
nobody who saw her could believe for the
moment that ''going away" gown
should be anything but lavender
They made way for her on the stairs,
and for the groom, with a tan-colored
overcoat on his arm, behind her. The
women began kissing the bride. who sub
mitted with flushed cheeks and dancing
eyes. One or two elderly men near the
door came in for kiss, too. The groom
was shaking hands with everybody, the
young men all yelling Good-by, old
fellow, as if the groom were 60 instead
of "a.
For time it was almost impossible to
get the front door open in the crush and
when at last they got the couple out on
the steps twenty handfuls of rice hailed
upon the retreating figures. A fresh
chorus of giggling and shouts of Good
by, and the coach door slammed and the
Watterson wedding had begun to be a
matter of history.
They reached the station at 10:45.
In fifteen minutes they were rolling away
in drawing room car. The bride could
still feel the sting of the rice on her neck
"a very pretty neck, encircled by mar
row ribbon Of lavender velvet. When
the groom took off his silk hat several
white grains fell to the floor, and the
groom covertly scanned the cars to see
whether the tell-taIe sign had been. de-
tected.
Charming innocence! AS if rice grains
were required to advertise the obviously
lust-married condition of this radiant
pair
Most of the car had been made up as a
sleeper, and only three human beings
were visible in unmade-up sections.
These charitably feigned to regard the
new passengers as III no wise exception
al, and did not appear to be taking very
much notice of them.
When the train conductor and after
him the Pullman conductor had been
around to collect the tickets, and the
groom had for the first time performed
that interesting function of introducing
to the world, as it were, himself and
wife, the pair tried to settle back in the
soft seat and appear indifferent But
the bride had 800 things she wished to
say and so they got to talking in low
tone, until presently the white jacketed
porter came along.
The sight of this functionary startled
the groom in an inexplicable way
"Make up the section, siri' said the
porter, with what might be called an in
visible grin.
"N-no," said the groom, trying not
to appear startled, eve are only going
as far as Pittston."
The porter looked for a moment as if
he disapproved of Pittston or of some
thing else aud went back into his den,
For half an hour their low talk kept
in a sort of harmony with the solemn
rumble Of wheels. Her goved hand
had fallen into the nearest Of his The
pressure he gave it contained the essence
Of q mighty embrace. There was nobody
10 see il their hands came very close to-
gether
Suddenly the groom sat upright aad
darted at the inside pocket OF his sack
| coat
Great Scott" he gasped; ~ forgot
TO tell the baggageman about that
satchel
"Charlien She said no more. but
there was a world Of distress 10 the
| tone.
II shall telegraph for 10 in the morn
ing, bee said.
But, Charlie. sac protested, "don't
I sou tn1w that we cant go anywhere
without tho sHichoI"
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