The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-03
HONEYMOON COMPLICATION.

away in the Pullman car for their
bridal trip some other passenger in the
same car had a suit case precisely like
The one in which she had packed the
new dress and appurtenances in which
SHE proposed TO appear at the social
function to be given that night in a
town only six hours run by rail from
| the town of her maidenhood. There
was nothing to distinguish one case
/ from another. Both looked as if they
had just come out of the shop the day
previously, and neither was stamped
| with any name or address. Therefore
there was some excuse for the Pull
man porter getting them mixed up, and
when the new wife and husband left
the train at their first stopping place
on the long journey which they had in
contemplation, unloading upon the
driver Of the cab the wrong item of
baggage. The blunder was not dis
covered until the bride was preparing
to dress for the evening at the home of
her friend.
Augustus was in the adjoining room
and getting into his best toys then
there came a timid tap at the door.
He found Elinora standing in the hall
with such fury blazing from her eyes
as he had only see once before-the
day he had taken her dearest enemy
among the girls out on the lake to
search for waer lilies.
Now, what's the matter, Nell?" he
asked.
Her only reply for a moment was to
swing around from behind her an open
suit case and to point to it with a
finger. A shiny revolver. several box
es of cartridges half dozen decks of
cards and a lot of the more intimate
apparel of the masculine person were
Its contents.
This is queer co. sair Augustus.
How in the name of alr that is pos
sessed did you come into possession of
this property?"
The reaction had come and she
sobbed out: "Tt come up on the cab
from the depot. 1t must belong to
some dreadful man who has carried off
my new gown and all my other pretty
things that was to wear tonight.
just don't know what to do"
Perhaps one of the girls in the house
could lend you a dress" suggested he.
There's nobody here of my height
and figure" she answered. She was
inclined to be proud of her tall state
illness.
TELL you what we'll do" he saidi
TITS only o'clock and there are some
good shops in this town. Hustle your
self and we'll make an excuse to go
out and I'll buy you the incest thing
we can find"
Tears gave away to smiles at the
idea Of doing a shopping turn, and in
five minutes Elinora was ready for the
expedition. She returned from it in an
hour fairly we'll equipped for the even
ling, and while she still lamented the
absence of the gown that she had got
ten up for the occasion she was par
TALLY Modified by the impression she
made.
MIR. Snagsby, commercial traveller,
went to a city a couple of hundred
miles beyond. When he opened what
he presumed to be his suit case In his
hotel that night 1t took him sixty sec
conds to recover from paralysis He
dragged out a fashionable low-cut
gown, various other articles that he,
being a bachelor, was unaquainted
with, and finally a gold medal bearing
a feminine first name on one side and
a date on the other.
Guess Til have to sleep tonight
without my pajamas." he said to him
self. IF l had suspected this I'd have
given that porter a biff in the ribs in
stead OF, half dollar"
Then Snagsby though up an idea.
First the business Of appealing to the
railroad people for rectification of the
error was gone through with, but it
was the luck of the three persons most
concerned shat the two pieces Of bag
gage persistently lodged each other.
But, after all, the processes of Snags-
by's intellectual laboratory got in their
work.
His journey carried him all the way
to Denver. He was sitting at break
fast one morning in hotel In that city
when a man and a woman took seats
opposite him. AS he rose to leave the
table she nudged her companion and
whispered to him. The man got up and
intercepted Snagsby, at the door of the
room.
Excuse me-" he said, but will you
permit me to look little closer al
that medal on your watch chain?"
Surely" replied Snagsby.
We've trailed him at last Nell
Augustus said. Here's you medal
and I suppose the suit case isn't fal
off,"
IT'S in room 81" said snagsby, F'ant
I'm ready and willing to make the
trade for mine"
That's all right said Augustus
"but just to think that We should come
across each other hundreds of miles
away from home and finish our dea'
through the accident of your wearing
that little medal"
Nothing wonderful or accidental
about it," Snagsby said. II fastened
the thing to my watch chain on the
chance that its owner would see me
and it some time. "-Pittsburg Times,