Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-01
THE WEEKS LOVE STORY
BY D. /. METTO.

she bore the important title of Mrs. st.
John Irving. Her husband, who was de-
cidedly grave and sedate. thought she did
not support his name with sufficient dig
nifty.
Everyone wondered how two people 50
totally unlike as St. John Irving and
Adele Montgomery had ever been drawn
together. but it is d true saying that peo-
pie like their opposites.
My DEAR said Mr.. Irving one day as
he entered the apartment where his bride
was sitting, Il have heard something
very strange"
"Wllat was ito asked Adele.
Il heard that your parents were very
much opposed to our union. and that we
We're obliged to elope at night by jump
ing out OF the back window. and that
then we had gone Immediately to the
clergyman, and had been married with
out the knowledge OF our parents, who,
in consequence. had disinherited YOU, and
had refused TO have anything more to do
with you.'
How very stranger exclaimed Adele,
"HoW could such a eport have original
ed?'
Have you not said something in fun
which might rave given rise to it,"
NO." said Adele, ~thoughtfully, and
then she added: ooh, now / do remember.
The other day, when Vivian Lovejoy was
! here-yOu know she has such a perfect
horror of old gentlemen. She asked me.
in her innocent way, how l came to mar
ry a person so much older than myself.
For my part she said. I never should
wish to marry an old man. and pa and
ma wouldn't let me if l did She is
such an honest little creature, and al
ways takes everything SO literally that I
wished to astonish her, SO l replied: T
/ sprang out of the back window at night,
when my parents We're asleep. and I was
married quite early the next morning. l
suppose that must have been the way the
story originated. and it has gained, of
course, by circulation.'
But, Adele. what did possess you to
! say such a thing?' continued Mr.. Irving.
Only for mischief; I meant to unde
ceiNe her before she left me, but | forgot
it
DO you think it right to say what is
not true, even in fun, Adele?' asked her
husband, with a grave look.
But it really was strictly true, st.
John; for do YOU not recoilect my telling
you that the night before we We're mar
ried, 1 became alarmed by a cry of fire
next door. and ! sprang out of the Win
dow which was near the round and as
soon as the first feeling of fear was over,
j returned to Wakcn my father and moth
err
What you said then was true in the
letter, but not so in the spirit?' asked
Mr.. Irving. as he gazed earnestly INTO his
wife's face.
Now. grandpa" said Adele, as she
stroked down his whiskers. please dom
preach me a sermon. for / was only in
fun when I said it. and l think people
might understand me; everyone is so
dreadfully natter-of-fact.'
Adele laughed and wondered what
made her husband SO very sober, and
wished that he was a little more playful:
while he, in his turn, wished that his
wife was not quite SO full of spirits. But
he had still considerable annoyance to go
through with, before Adele gave up this
little propensity.
1t was all in vain that he talked to her
about dignity.
Il am afraid. my dear. that your fun
will give me considerable trouble" said
Mr.. Irving to his Wife one day, after an
other strange report had reached his ears
the result of Mrs. Irving's love of fun.
Il am very sorry" said Alede, as she
raised her sweet. childish face to his.
AS he bent down to imprint a kiss on
those rosy lips, he felt half tempted to
give up the plan which he had formed
for preventing further mischief, but he
F recollected that many times her love for
fun had drawn them into trouble, and
+ with an effort he resolved to carry 1t
through.
Il shall have TO leave you far a few
! days, my dear"
Leave me-" she exclaimed. "For
What?"
Il am obliged to go south tomorrow
morning OF business. but | will make my
. stay as short as possible"
1t was With a heavy heart that Adele
: retired that nisht. She could not bear
the thought of being separated from her
, husband ever for a few days, and her
ever active imagination conjured up all
sorts of dreadful things which might hap
: pen to one or the other of them before
they should meet again. But it was
!, necessary for him to go, and the next
morning she followed him to the door, re-
:. ceiving his parting kiss, and then return
- ed to her room to cry.
In the afternoon The bright sun seemed
o to invite her out for a walk, and she ac-
cordingly went. She met n number of hel
! friends, but some bowed coldlv, while
! others passed her by with a scornful look
n At one time she discovered two ladies
conyersing together and looking at her
! What could it mean? Then she caught
, the words:
8 Very strange, is it not?'
/ Eyes" was the reply, but then they
a were so unsuited to each other, t hat one
can scarcely wonder at it,
+ THAT is true continued the first, che
is so very grave, and She is so full of mis-
chief"
: AS Adele walked quickly on, wondering
: what they could mean, and If 1T We're pos
sible thai they referred to her, she los
t the remainder of their conversation.
e She returned to her house feeling sick
S at heart, and earnestly longing for hel
husband to come back to her. What she
3 had heard puzzled her; she felt sure thai
t some false report had been circulated
but how she could not tell. While she
was musine on this subject the doc
opened and Mrs. Ainsbury was IN
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