The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-12
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friend. a terrible blundcr for which
alone am responsible has mace
great change in my life. ! can never
think of II without horror. shame. NOR
tification. bumiiatlon-indeed. every
frightful emotion for which there is n
word In the English language. Aud
yet I confess that this incident has
brought me the most exquisite happi-
ness. have TO announce to you, my
dearest. sweetest, lovelest friend. my
engagement. Bob has won my con
sent at last.
But I must admit that Bob took an
unfair advantage of me. While ] love
him ana feel that he is the one man to
make me happy. can never forget
that he turned to his own account this
frightful fatality to compel me to ac-
cept him. True, had all along intend
ed TO do 80. But you know how sweet
Il is for a woman to have n man hum
BILE himself before her. tell her that
without her he will become wreck,
implore her TO have mercy upon him.
All this might have had were 1t not
for my mistnke.
l had kept Bob dangling for a year,
had given him but little hope. ! con
fess that his pain was my pleasure.
When he fretted laughed at him,
when he rebelled assumed naughty
tone and asked by what authority he
presumed TO dictate to me, and never
after the slightest sign OF independ-
ence on his part did ! restore him tc
favor except lie came to me through
the valley Of humiliation
Now. wh,n l consider that he not
oslig compelled me to desist from such
treatment, but assumed to make condi-
tlons; when think that he got me, so
to speak, in hole. acted in a mean,
contemplate, selfish, disgusting. bru-
tai
But | am forgetting that ] am en-
gagged to him and love him devotedly.
It is dangerous for me to give you this
story. for In the telling OF it | am
liable TO wish that | had my lover on
a spit roasting him before slow fire.
However, since | must tell somebody
and you are my own true. loyal friend.
VIII hurry through It lest my indigna-
tion get the better OF me and I send
Bob about his business.
You must know that Bob and Alice
and Sue and Lille and lot Of boys
and girls were together on the coast.
Well. we came home i'm the same train,
making the journey in the night Alice
and occupied n lower berth. while
Sue and Lille aid the same. The boys
bunked together, except Bob. who took
a berth for himself alone. We were n
merry party on the train, talking and
laughing, till disagreeable old man
why are old people permitted to live,
/ wonder?-cared out from his berth
that the fool killer was coming through
the train. Thinking that this might
possibly be hint for us to get into
our berths. we did so. and the car soon
wore the silence of slumber. OF course
the silence OF slumber Is different in a
sleeping car from nursery. A mum
ber OF people snored frightfully.
In the middle Of the night I awoke
with a terrible thirst was in my
wrapper and had my slippers on.
crawled over Alice, who slept on the
outside, went TO the end of the car to
the cooler, got a drink and started
back. N
Now, these sleeping ears, when one
wishes to find ones berth. are perfect
ly awful | was lost. ! looked for the
norter. but he was not visible.
peeped into several berths, In eact
case seeing a stranger asleep Then
It occurred to me that my berth was
the fourth from the rear end of the
car. Acting on this. | made plunge
A figure rolled in the bedclothes was
on the outside. Italimbed over 1t and
had one hand and knee on one side o
It, the other hand aud knee on thu
other side, when the sleeper stretched
forth a hand, pulled the curtain aside
and the horrid lamplight shone dOwI
90 the face Of
How shall / ever get the story told
What was ! doingg What frightfu
fate had possession Of me2 There be
meath me lay a man-not only man
but the man whom l had been perse
cutting l was getting into bed with
oh. horrors Bob. He was look
ing up Into my eyes, down into his
Mercy ] cried and, rolling out int
the aisle, rushed back TO the other en
of the car. There ! found the porte
coming in NJ the door, and he put m
In my berth.
OF course didn't sleep wink HOY
could II The next morning Bob mad
no reference to the matter by look q
word till we were all at breakfast !
the dining car. Then he said:
Anybody sick in the nighti'
knew what was coming. fushe
crimson and gave him an implorin
look. But he kept on making all kind
OF innuendoes without telling on m
TN was Utmost frantic.
Well, when We went back into on
car we found the iberths put ava.
and Bob took a seat besbie me. A
suming an independent tone he sal
that l had one more chance. and on
only. to be his wife. | must decid
then and there If ! refused TO civ
him a definite answer the story mui
come out.
What could dol
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