The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-05

"Too late. Too later said man at the
Carey Sunja night as he excitsdly kicked
a chair upside down and waved Sunday
EAGLE wildly over his head.
The hotel clerk thought the poor fellow
had hydrophobia and rushed irstauter to
his relief.
"Where is the police station? I want
a detective! Where is your telephone?'
said the mae, continuing.
When satisfactory answers were made
he rushed to the police station and en-
gagged Detective Harry Sutton.
The mans name was Augustine and he
was encircling the world with the vain
idea that he could travel faster than a
maiden born upon the wings Of love.
With Augustine there was companion.
He looked like student aud foreigner
and he was "a nervous as Hamlet was mt
Elsenore. His nervousness manifested
itself in the fierce putting Of cigar and
the projection OF dense whlfs of smoke
toward the frescoed ceiling of the Carey.
What Mr.. Augustine saw in the EAGLE
that startled him was not the prophesled
end of the world by Mrs. Quimby. but the
| simple announcement that Will Wilson
had left the previous night for Lsaven-
worth to wed Miss Conradenia SwOrinsOn
| of Denmark.
Mr.. Augustine and his friend arrived at
| the Carey late Sunday night, and before
going to bed they very naturally desired
| to see the news of all the world, and called
| for an EAGLE as prelude to the pleasant
dreams they anticipated. Thus it was
that all their calculations and anticipa-
| lions were knocked into cooked hat.
When Mr.. Augustine saw Harry Sutton
he said that he travelled from the land of
| Hamlet to deliver to her message before
sue was married. This is all he would
say concerning the message the secret of
which is locked up in his own heart and
the heart of his classic looking friend.
When ne learned that Wilson
had already started for the bridal altar he
and Mr.. Sutton went to the telegraph Of
flee and kept Singing electricity TO Leav-
enworth till morning.
In the morning he left for Leavenworth
| to be there before the wedding which, for
some reason, had been postponed till last
evening. Mr.. Augustine was not Z.
Fogg of Jules Verne's creation, and when
he arrived at Leavenworth last night be
was too late for, as usual, the train was
four hours late. Hymen and Cupid and
all the other gods Were against him and
impeded his path in every direction.
What the message was will probably new
er be known. Mr.. Augustine was travelling
through Europe and meeting the parents
sage to be delivered to her before marriage.
That it is something of great Importance
there is no doubt from the great efforts Mr..
Augustine put forth to reach the daughter
before she was married.
Miss stevenson had left Denmark few
days previous to Mr.. Augus:ine's depart
ure. and he expected to Overtake her in
New York, but failed. He came here ex.
pecting that, as matter OF course, the
wedding would take place in. Wichita.
Who his companion was Mr.. Sutton
could not form the slightest opinion, and
the natural inferencs was that he was a
Danish student who was SO desperately in
love with Miss Sworenson that he made a
final heroic effort to follow her across the
Atlantic in hopes that the gods would be
more fayorab BILE to him under the stars and
stripes. and that Miss Sworensou
might, in appreciation of his remarkable
devotion, consent to yield him her hand at
the last moment.
Mr.. Wilson met Miss stevenson at King
fisher some three or four years ago while
she was on a visit to relatives in this
country, and conquered her affections.
She is said to be BEATTY and bright IL
is said also that she is daughter to one of
the prominent men III the kingdom of
Denmark.
Whatever and whoever she is she
made no mistake in marrying VIII Wilson
who is good young man.