The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-10-18
Where They Spent
Their Honeymoon

where we're going 20 spend our honey
moon
~You don't mean il However did
they find it outg
"What do you say 70 changing the
place Washington, for instancey
"Splendlde'
II have scheme There are several
routes 10 Washington Suppose you
take one ana Ill take the other
land travel All alones ruefuily)
rIrs only a few hours ride
'Wen that Is il you would be sure
70 meet me at the station
"Il1 arrange all that In take train
that reaches Washington earlier than
your train and viii have a cab ready
III give orders for your baggage to
be checked to Richmond and mine
for, well, say Harpers Ferry Before
we're OF III change yours aud can
change mine on the train. BY Joye.
its Jim dandy plan. How Wen fool
themw
Are you sure therell be no mistake
about the baggage
"0f course am, little sweetheart
Don't turn pale over a small matter
like that. Keep up your pluck and
well have the whole town agog at
bridal couple going to spend their
honeymoon in different places
Il hope nothing will go wrong"
He held her in his arms, giving her
kiss at intervals OF from ten to sixty
seconds. then with clearing up show
er of kisses went Off TO engage rooms
at the capital
The wedding was at high noon. The
groom and his attendants wore the
usual priestly frock coat with the usu-
al enormous fiower on the lapel Every
one wondered where the couple were
going for the honeymoon, but no one
knew Then when it was 9ll over the
house was made as habitable as posi-
Bile at short notice and the brides par
ents retired to rest
What's thatg7 exclaimed the moth
er, starting up The night lamp show
ed that the clock stood at 80.
Listen said the father
There was feeble hammering on
the front door
get up, pa, quick Oh, heavens, what's
happened? / hope Il isn't telegram.
The man arose, put on a dressing
gown, shufied into 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 street lamp
and the driver on seeing the lady adj
mitted, drove away. The father car
ried his daughter into the drawing
room and laid her Oh diyan. The
mother. who had followed her husband
downstairs, entered, switching on the
electric light
'Iouisei she exclaimed with a
scream "Oh, what IL itgH
No answer
Louise, speak To your poor mothern
let her alone. can't your from the
father
"Oh papa. Oh, mammal such a
dreadful thingt
4What thingT shrieked the mother.
Harry and / wanted to fool you all
We went ont on separate trains to
Washington. Harry was to meet me at
the station. He wasn't there"
THE yillain He's deserted your
moaned the mother
"No. / 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 II people sayl"
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 II
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.
rs Lou hereg1
.Yes."
THANK Gods
How did you trace herg"
'Telegraphed to the station. They
said a woman answering to her de
scription had failed to meet her hus-
band and gone out on northbound
train"
CAN right You'll find her upstairs
her own room. second floor front, to
The left"
There was but one more voice audi
bic III the halls till the servants were
moving, and that was d pathetic vail
OF disappointment an expression Of
profound relief and 4 maidenly shrink
ing Thea 70 All appearances, sleep
ana oblivion weighed over NIL"
The mystery as 60 where the bridal
couple spent their honeymoon was
never solved Washington was the
place reported, but the couple were not
seen there For ten days meals were
surreptltlously carried upstairs by the
brides mother who gave out to the
servants that her octogenarian grand
mother had arrived in the night Mean
while the groom Ind ten days Of more