Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-07-27

father copldn t get either door open. He
! WASH hurt an atom, but he acted as II
he wasa good deal Disappointed "
Disappointed You mag depend
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I are Vet.
Il don I see but what be viii have
to if ha stops Us now. He can get TO
Lav1rook ahead Of us, and - minutes
after we arrive you'll be Mrs Roder
iGi
She went silent at that. as what mod
est Young woman would mott But after
! ittlo she plucked up courage to ask
/ about the details. Her companion ex-
/ planned.
after left you at the house | went
down town and wired Hardwicke, the
agent at Lavarock, telling him there
/ would he n couple on this train to be
married in the hotel parlor on arrival
! He Is to arrange with the county clerk
to keep his Office open so that l can get
] the license. and to have the minister
/ ready. l can drive to the courthouse
/ and back in ten minutes and we can
/ have it all over with while the passen-
( gers are mt supper and be ready to go
/ west OH No. !.
/ Its very dreadful, Alan, she muir
INJURED. 80 pi,ifully different from
one s ideal wedding.
! That's so cheerfully - ''there
isn't any ideality to spare for fact.
| But we cant help that. If we hadn't
made the dash. your father would have
I packed you off To Ohio between two
days, wouldn' her
He said he would, and I'm afraid
he ne..nt it, And yet he has always
been very good to me, Alan, before
| before this, you know
Il know but he meant business this
time. Aud that isn't all. After l had
my little >eance with him this morning
| when | asked him outright if we
mighJn't he married like other people
he abused me like a sheep thief; said
he'd write to the general manager and
have me discharged, though he didn't
mention upon what grounds he would
demand ii.
But how could he do thaty'
Il give it up. There is nothing on
record against me, | believe, except
that I've had the audacity to fall in
love with you after he had quarreled
with my father. But l couldn't help
| either the one or the other.
mo, indeed But l hope you didn't
quarrel with him.
Didn't II l told him to go ahead
and write his letter if he wanted to;
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if he could.
ALAN You didn't tell me that.
mo, it didn't seem judicious.
perhaps | mightn't have consented
if you had.
''Oh, yes, you would. -
''Why would H.
Because you-love me. -
In good truth l could not obtain my
own consent to listen any longer More
over, the notes of the wood dove, feath-
cred or human, are not particularly edi-
tying in the ears of one who has long
eschewed all thoughts of domestic joys,
and betooh myself with my book to
| the deserted smoking compartment.
Here ! Yas left IN peace until after
the train had passed the first telegraph
station. but it was no sooner under
way again than the conductor entered,
followed closely by my young scape-
grace. They sat down in the opposite
seat. ignoring my presence as if had
been something more or less than
human being.
"What is it, Tom - demanded the
young man anxiously.
"Oh, you're In for it up to your
pecks. you twoi l have orders to dis
honor your passes and put you both off
at the next station, said the conduct
or, with what l understood to be mock
solemnity.
Roderick nodded appreciatively. Il
thought that would be the first thing
he would do. That's why l bought reg
ular tickets. We're patrons of the com
pany, just like other people, and dare
you to put us off,
The big conductors laugh shook the
windows.
"That's what l wired EN-, he said.
''But that amt the worst Of it. Your
don't want to be father-in-law's ont