The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Where They Spent
Their Honeymoon
[Original.l

i Say, LOul Je, Llcy re Oh TO the pace |
where we're going to spend our honey
moon"
"You don't mean it! However did
they find it out?"
"What do you say to changing the
place-Was.ington, for instance"
"%Splendidv
II have a scheme. There are several
routes to Washington. Suppose you
take one and I'll take the other"
"And travel all aloney' (ruefully).
tits only a few hours ride"
swell, that is if you would be sure
to meet me at the station"
"Ill arrange all that. I'll take a train
that reaches Washington earlier than
your train and will have a cab ready.
I'll give orders for your baggage to
be checked to Richmond and mine
for, we'll, say Harpers Ferry. Before
we're off I'll change yours, and l a
change mine on the train. BY Jove,
it's a Jim dandy plan. How well fool
them!'
"Are you sure there'll be no mistake
about the baggage2'
"Of course l am, little sweetheart.
Don't urn pale over a small matter
like that. Keep up your pluck and
We'll have the whole town agog at a
bridal couple going to spend their
honeymoon in different places"
II hope nothing will go wrong"
He held her in his arms, giving her
a kiss at intervals of from ten to sixty
seconds, tl3en with a clearing up show
er of kisses went off to engage rooms
at the capital.
The wedding was at high loon. The
groom and his attendants wore the,
usual priestly frock coat with the usu-
al enormous flower on the lapel. Every
one wondered where the couple were
going for the honeymoon, but no n
knew. Then when it was all over the
house was made as habitable as posi-
BILE at short notice and the brides par
ents retired to rest.
"What's that?" exclaimed the moth.
er, starting up. The night lamp show
ed that the clock stood at 1870.
"Listen!" said the father.
There was a feeble hammering on
the front door.
"Get up. pa, quick. Oh, heavens, what's
happened? l hope it isn't a telegram"
The man arose, put on a dressing
gown, shuff1ed into a pair of slippers,
went downstairs, opened the door, and
the limp form of his newly married
daughter fell into his arms. A car
riage stood out under a street lamp,
or1 +ho l,r;ro,, an cooirr fl1n 1odv od.
mitted, drove away. The father car
ried his daughter into the drawing
room and laid her on a divan. The
mother, who had followed her husband
downstairs, entered, switching on the
electric light.
"Louise!' she exclaimed, with a
scream. "Oh, what is it"
No answer.
"Louise, speak to your poor motherv'
"Let her alone, can't you?" from the
father.
ooh. papa! Oh, mamma! Such a
dreadful thing"
"What thing?" shrieked the mother.
Harry and l wanted to fool you all.
We went out on separate trains to
w doulllS lOl. l101ly NoS ~ A1OOI liz ~
the station. He wasn't there"
'"The villain! He's deserted you!"
moaned the mother.
mo. I told them at the station what
train he had taken, and they said there
had been a washout on that road and
they couldn't tell when trains would
get through. So + had to come home"
"Dear me; it'll be all over town be-
fore breakfast. What III people say?
"Stop your chatter" from the father.
"Come, Louie, go to bed. It'll all
come right tomorrow"
He led his weeping child upstairs to
her own bedroom, where he left her
with mother. Then, turning in, he went
to sleep with as much equanimity as if
nothing had happened.
Daylight was struggling through the
Stats when there was another rap at
the door. 1t was heard by the mother
and the bride, who awakened the head
of the house and sent him downstairs.
He let in the groom.
"Is Lou here?"
eyes"
"ThaEk Godw
GLOW did you trace herr"
Photographed to the station. They
said a woman answering to her de-
scription had failed to meet her hus-
band and gone out on a northbound
train"
"All right. You'll find her upstairs
her own room, second floor front, to
the left"
There was but one more voice audi
BILE in the halls till the servants were
moving, and that was a pathetic wall
Of disappointment, an expression OF
profound relief and a maidenly shrink
ing. Then, to all appearances, "Sleep
and oblivion weighed over ALL"
The mystery as to where the bridal
couple spent their honeymoon was
never solved. Washington was the