Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-08

81 don't know how it was" said the
very slnartly gowned young woman.
Its a mystery to me and I'm sure
they hadn't any earthly reason to sup
pose so, but wherever we went they
all seemed to know it."
Perhaps you imagined that they
did, my DEAR" suggested the matronly
elder woman.
"No," said the young woman posi-
lively, "they knew 1t, or at least sus-
pected 1t, everywhere. Harry got all
that nonsensical stuff off the trunks be-
fore we started. He had the express
man bribed to take them right into
the baggage room, but the boys got at
him and he must have broken his word
and left them alone with them-the
trunks, you know. But he suspected
that might happen, Harry did, and he
had Martha's young man who delivers
our groceries, mean papa's and NAM
mas groceries, not ours, you know. He
had him go down with the checks and
transfer the trunks and he said they
were actually roped with white satin
ribbon and had just the awfulest labels
and such things on them"
''They do carry it little too FAR
sometimes, l think myself" agreed the
matron.
ooh, 1 think they're just mean! But
Harry was too smart for them. We
didn't take the limited after all, so
they didn't get chance to deliver their
handbills to the people on the train,
as they had it all planned to do. And
we drove the carriage away around
and got rid Of all the rice, so 1t wasn't
the rice And as far as Harry was
concerned l know that when we used
to go down by train to Aunt Mary's
lots Of times he wore a silk hat and
frock coat and nobody ever seemed to
notice it particularly. 1t never occurred
to me then to think that people would
think anything. And the next day he
wore a light gray suit anyway. But
you'd see people looking at each other
and smiling In that silly, aggravating
way just the same"
'That was strange"
II believe you are laughing at me,
but 1t was strange. There wasn't any
thing brldy about my travelling dress.
The time went to Los Angeles wore
a pale blue serge that was much more
so. And then l made Harry sit on the
opposite seat, and go away off into the
smoking compartment several times.
And he'd say my dear in the most
careless and off-hand way you could
imagine-just like old married people
do-and so would 1. And we'd talk
about things that we did years ago and
say, When we were In Montreal last
summer and things like that when we
knew people were listening. Harry did
1t splendidly."
81 feel quite sure he did," said the
elder woman.
Don't you think he's the dearest
fellow?" asked the young woman. "And
he was just so lovely to me all the
time, but not bit more lovely than he
Is to me now. We've been married over
a month and he hasn't said a cross
word to me in all that time and there
| hasn't been a day that he hasn't
brought me flowers. But feel sure 1t
wasn't that made people think we were
newly married. And 1 always put two
Jumps of sugar in his tea without ask
ing him. And when we looked over the
bill Of fare at places Harry would say,
Here's some Of this or that you've
always been so fond Of And once
when we were at a restaurant he
yawned! Yes, he did. 1 didn't think
for q minute that he was doing it on
purpose and nearly cried right there
In public.
But it didn't seem to make any diff
ference what we did or how We acted.
You could almost hear them saying,
Bride and groom, bride and groom,
bride and groom everywhere we
went"
IT can't understand It," said the mat
ron.-Chicago Daily News.