The Dickinson press., 1897-03-20

~ y saas, and still,
neither suffered
from total collapse
of the system together with complete
stagnation of the blood. Both OF the
young people kept on living as natur-
ally, 1T great deal more happily. as II
nothing of the sort had happened, II
after awhile they decided to form a
heart partnership for life. In other
words, they were married and went
to live in the sweetest little fiat in the
world. After which they naturally de-
sired to see all the world as happy as
themselves, and as of urse they ac-
quired more knowledge about matri-
mony in three short months than the
world had obtained in all its thousands
Of years of matrimonial experiments
they were in fine condition for amateur
matchmaking at the time that this
story came to pass.
Each of 1.-The innocents," as their adj
miring friends were in the habit Of
clubbing them, had ar unmarried Sis
ter, and, oddly enough, both these SIS
tiers were the same age and both had
conceived a violent dislike to the very
idea of marriage. Alice, Harry's sister,
wa as pretty as a picture in one style;
Chattie, Louie's sister, just as pretty in
another. Both girls were sufficiently
charming TO have attracted to them
selves a varied assortment of beaux.
but neither had ever allowed herself
to be more than casually swayed by the
love of any man. True, Chattie some
times thought with a kind of regretful,
lingering tenderness of the man who
had first asked her to marry him,
seven years ago, when she had been lit
tie more than a school girl. True.
Alice occasionally allowed her mind to
wander affectionately in the direction
SO youth with whom she had been
wont tor attend dancing school about
the same time that Chattie was going
to prayer meetings with her adolescent
admirer. But these moments were few
and far between with both girls; one
of the strongest bonds III the friendship
which existed between them was the
iron-clad resolve which each had
framed never to marry.
Love? All, that is different" Alice
was wont to say lightly, when twitted
on the subject of marrying: Il may
eve, but marry? Me? Not in this in
carnation"
And Chattie was fond of remarking,
with a careless toss of her pretty head:
when marry pigs will fly and angels
walk the earth. l shall never marry"
The friends Of both girls smiled
broadly at these remarks, but up to the
time when 1.-THE innocents" were mar
ried there had been no signs of an ap-
preaching chance to laugh outright.
But when two reckless youngsters set
TO work to effect matrimonial engage
ments between their friends those said
friends may we'll tremble, and the mis-
chief was brewing. The sighted young
men mentioned above fell in gladly
with the unformulated plan, as a mat
ter of course, and fairly haunted "the
as the two girls somewhat
sarcastically called the pretty little
fiat in which "the innocents" lived and
After which the girls
stayed away; they went no
more to the dove-cote to play cards of
an evening.
But when the three months before al
luded to had fitted by, fortune favored
the audacious couple and fate pla yed
into their hands. Chattie was a trained
nurse and was visiting the i~nnocuats
during a brief vacation between
cases." and Louie was also taking an
enforced rest. AS it happened, Harry
was likewise enjoying an "off day"
when the trouble began to brew, and he
walked down to his mothers in the
afternoon. She was cooking hearts for
supper-beeves' hearts, not human or
gans-and her disappointment when