The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-07
BARTONIS HONEYMOON
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Bessie, my dear, you'd best go to
your mothers until my return. Con-
founded awkward this; married two
weeks and now I'm leaving your he
said to his young wife at his side, as
they sat in their apartments at the
Bonaccord.
'And are you quite sure that I can
not go with your" she asked, in tone
which bespoke an eagerness to under
take with him.
Impossible, my dear. As I've told
You, I leave the train at Sturges, then
stage 1t eighty miles over the noun
tains before reach the camp. If John
wasn't my brother, nothing should in
duce me to leave you," he explained.
Merrill Barton might have added
that he was suddenly called to a remote
mining camp In the Northwest, to assist
his brother who had become involved In
litigation over valuable claim. In
deed, Barton himself owned one-half Of
the property, and the outcome of the
to him.
The foregoing conversation occurred
on Monday, and on the following Thurs
day Barton, In the midst Of his honey
moon, parted from his wife at the rail-
road station; he going West, expecting
to be absent a month at least, and she
East to visit with her mother.
When he reached Sturges his brother
informed him that the suit had been
settled out of court, and to their ad-
vantage.
As there was nothing to do but to re-
turn, he did so, and Immediately dis
patched letter to his wife, requesting
her to come to him but, unfortunately,
this letter failed of stamp, and went
to the dead letter office.
The second night after his return the
Bonaccord was partially destroyed by
fire, and Barton was forced to seek
other accommodations, which he OBJ
tained at friends home across the
city.
In the meantime Mrs. Barton had ar
rived at her mothers; but finding her
absent and not liable to return for sew
eral days, she concluded to go back to
the city and there await her husband.
She started on her return the day
before Barton mailed his letter, arriv-
Ing the third day after the fire at the
Bonaccord.
Surprising her husband still absent,
and being enormously Informed tina,
their belongings were destroyed at the
time of the fire, she registered at a re-
tired family hotel In the suburbs, writ
ing Barton at the mining camp.
The husband, meanwhile, waited I'm
patiently his wife's return. He met the
incoming trains, but no wife put in an
appearance. Then, imagining she was
Ill and loath to alarm him. he hurried
to his mother-in-law's home
Judge of tas surprise when informed
by the servant that Mrs Barton had
gone to the city eight days previous
Back he went on the first train. En-
route. as previously arranged, he met,
at a station along the way, the sister
rooming, and became the young lady's
escort.
Mrs Barton. not having heard from
her husband since his departure, was
very uneasy on this account. On the
afternoon when he was escorting his
friends sister to her brothers, she was
on her way to the telegraph office to
send him a message.
As she stood at crossing, awaiting
the passing of the congested traffic, who
should she see but her husband In a
carriage, and in company with a young
and pretty woman.
Impetuously she judged; she had but
one thought; her husband was untrue.
Justly indignant was she at his decep.
ton. As she had supposed he was un.
dergoing the rough life Of mining
camp, and here. In sight Of Her eyes, he
was riding about the city with a
woman!
Calling passing cab, she followed
the pair: saw them enter a house on a
fashionable street, and then, too cha
grlned and wounded to investigate fur
Their. she hurried to her mother, where
she poured, into too receptive ears, her
troubles.
Now the mother, as so often happens,
promptly took up arms against her
son-in-law and, assuming the leader
ship, outlined course Of procedure for
her daughters guidance.
Barton, all Of this time In a worry