The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-29
organist Got Sweet Revenge.


The young man in the depot ought to
have looked supremacy happy. There
were white ribbons tied around the
trunks which he went into the baggage
room to see about and every now and
then he reached around to the back Of
his neck and took some more rice out
from under his collar. And the young
woman who leaned on his arm looked
up into his eyes and called him dear
and then looked around dehantly to see
if anybody had heard her But the
young man smiled only when she spoke.
AS soon as the charm of her voice
ceased he looked like a person with
large weight of wrath on his mind. At
ter he had seen his wife SnugIy beStOw-
ed on the train he came back and hunt
ed up the friend who had accompanied
them.
1t was a good joke, wasn't it?" he
said. grimly.
What do you mean?" inquired the
friend.
Did you hear what the organist did
at the wedding?"
well, to tell you the truth, I haven't
much of an ear for music. But some of
the tunes sounded kind of familiar"
They were worse than familiar.
They were impertinent Do you know
who the Organist is? He's Tom TOggles.
He wasn't expected. He isn't the reg
ular organist. He volunteered to play.
He represented himself to be one Of my
dearest friends and secured the con-
tract
THAT was all right He told me
about it. He said he wanted to pro-
vide the slow music"
Yes; slow, but sure"
''TOmmy's a good musician
There is no doubt about his being a
good musician. Nobody but a good
musician would have dared to under
take what he did He started those
tunes in with syncOpated time and dark
thick harmOnies, 50 that the ordinary
listener would imagine they were any
thing but good, honest marriage music.
It was a fendish revenge. He was
making love to my wife before I mar
ried her He knows her father has lots
of money. He don't truly love her. He
couldn't, with his nature. But he was
terribly disappointed when he found he
was cut out for good and all. So he
sat down there and under the gu1Se Of
friendship scattered his sarcasm over
the entire edifice. I supposed he would
start in with something like oh, Prom
Use Ne But when we came walking up
the aisle I heard something in a minor
key which gradually disentangled itself
until it was all I could do to keep my
nerve. My wife has a wonderfully quick
ear for music and 1 know by the way
she turned red in the face that she
recognized the tune before did,
What was it2''
III Leave My Happy Home for
You OF course that is what the dear
old girl was doing. but that wasn't any
time to talk about it."
of course not" answered the friend,
in a tone OF genuine sympathy.
THE next thing he did was to impute
to me the same sordid motives which
he had in counting the girl Just when
I was busy saying I do every time the
minister nodded to me, the strains of
the organ gently began to peal forth,
When You Amt Got No Money You
Needn't Come Around What kind of
a. remark is that to make at mans
wedding?"
1T was a shame"
And after it was all over and we
started to leave. he didn't play any
of the good, old-fashioned selections.
He was too quaint and original for that.
He started up I'm Living Easy so
lively that one of the ushers nearly for
got himself and did a cakewalk. ought
to be able to sue him for SANDER. You
know, her father'u make me work all
right and that's what I want to do. I
don't mind the rice nor the ribbons nor
the rest of the delicate attentions, but
you can tell that fellow that if he stays
in town till I get back there's going to
be a tale of trouble in the newspapers
that'u make the story of a Kentucky
election look by comparison like to the
first chapter in a Sunday school story
book"