Smyrna times., 1902-08-27

was his greeting, and, noting her start,
he continued: Il will have to call you
Eunice and you must call me Guy 10 |
keen the conductors from taking up |
that pass. The c. and \. w. man
came to me last night after you had
retired and made me prove identity,
because. for one thing, you had no ring
on. He was a bit suspicious. l had
letters that fixed me up all right ana
1 explained that actresses seldom wore
their rings-that sort. At the same
time. to save the pass, would you mind
wearing this? 1t was my mothers
And he drew from his finger plain
gold band.
She slipped it on her hand, wonder
ing what Jack would say, but the mo-
ment after she had forgotten young
Hamilton in the charm of Crawford's
conversation.
Like most actors of the better sort,
Crawford was a capital talker, ever
ready to amuse and careful to use the
personal pronoun sparingly The long,
dusty trip, ordinarily so tedious, passed
rapidly, and by the time Ogden was
reached Hamilton was forgotten, and
that night more than once Eunice
caught herself looking at the wedding
ring with more interest than she had
right to feel.
The next morning the spell was COM
pleted They were in the snowsheds,
and her first glimpses of the Sierras
strongly moved this city bred girl.
There was a grandeur in the scenery
that the Catskills lacked, and when
the sheds were passed she sat on the
steps of a passenger coach with Craw-
ford at her side to explain everything
until her somewhat hysterical temper
ament was thrilled by a strange sense
of exaltation, in which the Sierras and
her companion were sadly jumbled.
Even when dusk closed in and Craw-
ford led her back to their own car she
was strangely silent and at dinner an
swered his laughing remarks in mono
syllables.
How could he be so merry when il
would all end in a few hours? she
asked herself.
At last it did end. The train pulled
on to the wharf at Oakland, late, as
Southern Pacific trains usually are
and they boarded the ferry for SaI
Francisco. 1t was a perfect Califor
mia night, the blue sky studded will
stars. From Alcatraz a few lights
were reflected on the water, while tC
the west Mount Tammaplais loomeC
above the foothills-a very night fol
romance, and as Eunice leaned owe
the rail she sighed softly. Guy looked
down on her. We'll. it's over" h
said gently, but l shall always re
member this trip. Usually it's so dul
across the desert. Has it been tire
some to you"
NO." she cried; anything but that
At first l was afraid of my-my-'huS
band but you were so good that
soon forgot that part. 1t was almos
real. / never supposed marriage wa
so happy"
'It isn't" he replied harshly; ''it's a
right pro tenn, but the quarrels wi
creep in. My wife and l always boo
in different companies because we a
ways fuss when we're together, and
that we get along better than most"
His wife," Eunice laid her head G
the rail, and for a moment she forg'
everything. Then the auto suggestion
the unconscious influence, of the ma
and the mountains passed away, al
she was herself again.
Il thank you so much for your kin
: ness. Mr.. Crawford" she said in b
: ordinary tones. Il have had such
!: pleasant time, and l hope that when
d am married to a man back east W
$ be as happy a real wife as was VIII
I a wife pro tom. Here is your divorce
a And she handed him his mothers we
s ding ring.