The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-09

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THAT Is the sister OF Mary MaeLane. .
the city editor answered
She Is the stunniugsst girl I ever saw,
said the young reporter 10 his astenished
self How can 1 meet herr
why. III TX that for you. volunteered
the CITY editor.
/ on that very night Louis u. Thayer.
who vas the determined youth reporter.
vent Up 70 the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
KIsaze, the mother and stepfather Of
Dorothy and Mary AIacLane. Young
Thayer had an assignment 10 ask many
useless questions about Mary MseLane.
and 1t was Dorothy who IS sweet
I sweet-sweet. who answered them. What
she said nobody knows least Ct AL Louis
Il. Thayer, His assignment was for
/ gotten He STAYED two hours
That happened on Thursday. On FRI
Z day they drove together and met once
! BESIDES 1t 1 clock on Saturday Miss
I asking TO be excused for q little while
About the same time Tnayer Left his
desk il the Inter Mountain
The TWO met few minu-es later at a
/ place appointed ard in their working
dress they walked u the rectoTy OF
/ the Episcopal church where they were
united IN marriage by the Rev {. 5
1 Biackiuston. The rector's TWO daughters
/ were witnesses
Then they walked up the main street
! Of Butte ana went TO the Office Of the
I Mountain where the happy young
+ tridegroom's associst les were introduced
&C Ms. Thayer
1t was late II the afternoon before
NJ and Mrs. Thayer went 10 the home
If Mrs Klenze 20 break the news %
her. 1t was shock TO the mother, from
which she has not Yet recovered.
When Mrs. Thayer snd Dorothy came
&c the house greeted Dorothy and she
sid she was not going back to the II
b.ary. said Ms. Kleaze IN telling OF
The way CT the news Of the marriage was
broken To her. I thought she was fool-
ing ard I ls1ghed a her. but she said.
No, 1 am not: I am married.
Mrs Klenze few into mysteries and It
vas several minutes before she could be
Gained sufficiently to listen to the rest
OF the story
Il was very much shocked and disap-
pointed" she said 70 the Sunday world
correspondent. Why. we had only known
the man two days and he had been az the
house only three times. do not ike
him, ana I told Dorothy SO, but 1t seems
that she did. and against my wishes she
married a man of whom she knows ab-
sclutely nothing I am afraid it will be
a case OF the old story. married n haste
10 repent at leisure, This marriage has
been a great disappointment TO me. 1
Rad hoped 10 marry ny daughter TO some
II an with money and told her I would
pick out a rich man for her.
Mrs. Klenze short time ago had a
strange dream about Dorothy and she be
Heves II was warning which was rot
needed.
4 dreamed that two men were counting
Dorothy and that she had married ore Of
them. BUT the marriage proved unhappy.
I told Dorothy OF my dream ard the next
day DIT. Thayer called to take her cut
driving
While he was waiting for her another
young man. who had been paying atten-
ton TO her. called and the TWO men we're
in the parior together. I called Dorothy
ard said: There are the Two men OF
my dream; lock out and don't let any
thing happen; be careful She laughed AT
me and left the house with Mr. Thayer
Now they are married.
and this Is the strange part that inter-
ests Butte. Far down in the mines in the
interior Of Mexico is a sturdy young fell
low. a friend Of the KIenze family and
4 Iad Of good prospects who-unless the
news has by this time crossed the frontier
still cheerfuliy believes himself the am
anced lover Of Mrs Louis n Thayer.
CuIiously enough-for not much has
been left out Of The Story Of Mary Mac
ane' -curiously enough. she does not
hetray. among other things. what she
thinks Of being betrothed 70 one man
and marrying another when you are Low
land Scotch
At all events the sisters love story is +
far from that romantic moment which
Mary sfacLane has prophesiet for herself
n her book
Could anything more be unlike the com
irg Of the reporter Of the Inter Noun
tain 10 the MacLane home than that lurid
picture OF Devn-courtship which the lit
tie MaeLane" dreamed out as her own
ideal betrothal2
fancied the fascinating
nan devil was seated near in a fran viii
low chair He leaned back in the
fran willow chair and looked at me
And now am here. Mary MacLane.' /
he said what would youe
7 want you to marry me- 7 replied /
az once
you must know IT Is not my custom 10 +.
marry women
I am sure il is not.' agreed. and
I DO not ask TO be particularly favored;
anything you give me, however little.
Viii constitute marriage for me
and would marriage Itself be so small
q thing asked the Devil
Marriage I said. would be a great
n q wonderful thing. ard the most beau
.iful Of all want you 70 marry
RE- added despairiusiy
'But sou think. he inquired 'thst It
would be- a suitable marriage
a scuitabis marriage I exclaimed.
I hate 4 suitalie marriage. 10. Il
z5uld not Re saHahl5 It would BE boz
aenian, ovtiandish. aoomnable' The
Devil smiled.
If I we're u marry yeue' he asked.
how long wouid YOU be hsppv
-For three davs I answered.
e. You are wise. Your iozic : s1oa logic.
could XII youz soul into Paradise. said
he Devil.
4 answered Yes without emotion
When Mary MacLane came to View
FORK from Boston she were a broad silver