The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-30
FLEETWOOD'S PROXY.
RY GEN CHARLES KING.

BY GEN. CftAhLES hlANb.
 The parlor car was well filled when the train stopped at the station, and a Western Union messenger came through with a telegram. Fleetwood! fleet- vocd!" he shouted interrogatively. Sew eral passengers looked up to see which night be Fleetwood, but neither name nor mess lge fer the moment 1ound claimant. As the lad left the ear, now ever, pretty girl left her chair ana caught him in the vestibule. She Was bIushing as she asked: ,o,, ..Is that fer MT. William Fieetwood?" The boy squirted sidewise at the su- aUh-huh!; he said. after our genial American manner. and meaning yes. Ther pushed on into the car bey2nd.
 '.But wait" cried she. MT. fles., vet But l know-" and the blushes deepened. "be's expecting q dispatch ] can give it to him.
 The boy turned and surveyed ner du- biously. She was young, charming most becomingly gowned, though ne didn't see what every woman in the ear did, and obviously both eager and shy. Mighty likely was it that she could give ii to Fleetwood if he was to be abo ar that train. Still would that satisfy the You ain't his wife. are ,you;' said he, unhending, wher"at the brushes deer cred.
 The conductor shouted Poerd" The air cocks began to hiss. The rcltt fitted his stool into the vestibl lIe aud the 20. give it to me- cried the girl in slistross. .Mr.-Mr Fleetwood will gst on at the next station. Tn going tc rncet-to be- she added, desFor' Sign here" said the boy, handing hei } the pencil and receipt booH, with the dispatch between the leaves.
 Slle hadn't thought ot that possibility The speed increased. Get off if your goin' to- said the porter. to the by who held on to his book. It was th' work of ~ut a second. It was only gn flaming cheeks and trembling hand, 1o the first time in her life she dashed or the words ('Mrs) William Fleetwood, seized the dispatch md vanished
 Now, as it turned out that was als' the last time, for when she tore Gpel the dispatch and huTriedly read it. gasp of dismay-almost scream-es capped her lips, and a young man sprant in from the platform aided her to seat and picked up the huttering pape from which she shrank apparently loath ing What she had thought to read wa something to this effect: Come back both of you. and be forgiven" It wal what Fleetwood had assured her wa the only thing her uncle and guardian could possibly send. What she dld rea' ' was: Money not paid as promised Have warned the colonel and police. Signed Your Wife,
 The Colonel Newton in the case WI the uncle and guardian so conhdentl, expected to surrender and say com home etc.-a hard headed veteran or m quartermaSter 8 department was he, Wlt much experience in men and matters business. and deep-rooted aversion | Mir. WiliSm Fleetwood. who had lai kiege to the heart of his pretty mec almost ever since the date of tha deat t.f her father, who left her an heires N Fleetwood was many years her Senlo Handsome, accommodating. traveled an fascinating-a man with q history an mo money. Time was when he ha money and social position. hut much ( his life of late had been spent ahroat and society knew not what had becom of the woman who six years before hd lost both home and husband because c him. It was cure ntly believed that sr was there in Chicago. but it was Italy that he met Florence Morgan. the in deep mourning. and 1t Is such an ac vantage to American tourists, doing, Et rope for the first time, to have a traN eled, masterful man of the world along He had fascinated both Florence an her easily flattered aunt and cousin an had become one of the party oeIoi could stop 1t. It is far cry from Com to Chicago
 Finding it too late to break up ma and Fleetwood followed In three month of assiduous yet clandestine wooing | had obtained such mastery over ht that when Newton unearthed his pa: ana CEu6reu HIS DSlltE Hdll lO ISll T AOl ence the whole truth, the girl refuse to believe. Fleetwood swore he had ne' CT seen the bruised reed of the ol scandal since she left her husband door. Newton took such sturdy star against him, despite the pleadlngs. his neice, that. not only would Flee wood have been refused license, b old time creditors would have be' gpurred to concerted action, and Flee wood fled to Chicago to the refuge
 "a remarkably neighboring State which we do not mention by name le others. too, should seek it's hymene possibilities-a State where neither
 nor licenses were known. Thither
 blamed that she should follow and l come his wife. Thither, after viole qlarrels with her aunt, and with ward nisgivirgs, for fhe had begun
 fear him, Florence went and providen ally met this warning wire and tl heipful young man, just as she cross inc State or danger line.
 It was mere than an hours ride
 the next stop. Telegraphing from rt ming trains was still an impossibili but the young nan had ideas. He. t had been devotee; he, too, had fall in love with Florence in the heyday
 her youth and beauty. You came late to win said the friends who kn
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