The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1906-09-22
in DEFAULT OF THE BRIDE.
By NELLIE CRAvEY GILMORE.

Though fully %, young Stamford
did not look a day over 10 in his light
fannels as he ran nimbly up the
iveranda steps Of the Etheredge home
and pressed the electric bell button.
The door few open simultaneously
and a stolid-visaged parsonage in
livery stood confronting him.
rs Miss Etheredge in? wish to
see her at once. II possible!" He
thrust card into the silver receiver
and sat down, somewhat out OF
breath, In the nearest chair.
A minute passed and the butler re-
turned, bearing slip of paper
across the back of which was scrawled
In a hasty hand: Dear Dick:
am, unfortunately, too, Ill to leave my
room. Can you not, just as well, COM
municate with me through CharleyT
Young Stamford was In quandary
Decidedly nothing could be done with
out the cooperation of Miss Ether
edge in person, and time was flying
He consulted his watch and found to
his dismay that barely 40 minutes re-
NAMED in which to act He reflected
a moment, then turned hastily to the
butler. Tell Mr.. Charley to come
down Immediately" he said. >
When Charley Etheredge appeared
in response to this summons he found
Stamford pacing restlessly up and
down the long hallway.
THE fact of the matter is, Ether
edge" he began at once, my uncle
is dying. He has always had his
heart set on D. on my marriage
with your sister For some unex-
planned and inexplicable reason, he
chooses to fancy at this late day that
one of us will draw back from our
engagement because of the delay. The
bulk of his property, as you have
heard, has been willed to me on the
specified condition of our marriage.
He paused and drew from his pocket
the small, unmistakable yellow en-.
velop. And now, the worst Of 1t is, y
he pursued anxiously, he has but a
few hours to live and sends this tele'
gram at the eleventh hour: If you
are not married before the breath
leaves my body-at my very bed
side-will shall be changed"
Etheredge pondered a second and
shook his head. II can't see what's
to be done, my dear fellow, unless
you just simply explain that my sis
ter is physically unable"
so much chaff. In his present
weakened, fanciful condition an ex
PLANTATION Of that sort would serve ad
mirably to strengthen his unreason
able within, and 100000 is no trifle tc
an impecunious fellow like-myself,
"Of course not" returned the
other musingly.
IT'S what we've been looking for
ward to all our lives, too"
Etheredge was dumb for severa
minutes, such a thing as a solution
at the present juncture, seeming more
impossible than the moving of 1
mountain.
Stamford took out his watch agar
and studied It's face critically. Hal
an hour" he calculated under hi
breath.
Suddenly Etheredge looked up will
a daring inspiration In his eyes. :"
have It," he cried, Suppose I-wha
II might rig out In some OF my sis
ter's toggery and go on with you
I've done that sort of thing before
you know, pretty successfully. Re
member those private theatricals las
summer"
Young Stamford started and red
dened furiously for an instant. Hi
eyes chung resolutely to the carpet
| Then, after a minutes hesitation, h
glanced up. Capital" he exclaimed
enthusiastically, 1T seems about tn