The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-24


joyful bridegroom part.-striped trou-
sers. frock coat. white puff tie. and
white gloVesi He'd had a close shave
and a shampoo, and the massage artist
had rubbed out some of the sWellin'
from under his eyes. Didn't look much
like the has-been that done the dive
1 under my couch.
D. "Wellr' says J. This is where the
private cinch comes in. eh2 Doc, you've
got head like a horse"
1 Il should think he'd be ashamed of
/ himself" says Sadie. running off with
q silly old woman
/ The Sullivan temper had got the best
of her. After that the deep lard was all
over the cook stove. Aunt TiHie throws
four cat-fits 70 the minute Then Doc
! steps up. puts a manly arm halfway
round her belt line, and lets her weep
on his Sunday coat.
By this time the preacher was all
broke up. He was a nice healthy-lOOk-
| in young chap, one of the strawbry-
! blond kind with pink-and-white cheeks
and hair as soft as a toy spaniels. IT
turns out that this was his first call
70 spiel off the splicin' service.
Il trust" says he. that no one has
any valid objection to the uniting of
this coupler"
Il will convince you of that" says
Doc PinphOodle speakin' up brisk and
cOcky, by putting TO this young WO-
man a few pertinent questions"
Well, he did. AS a crOss-examiner
for the defense he was a regular Joe
ChOate Inside of two minutes he'd
made torn mosquito netting of Sadie's
kick, shown her up for a rank outsider,
and put US both through the ropes.
Now" says he, with kind Of calm.
satisfied, I've swallowed % the canary
smile, I'VE will proceed with the cere-
mony."
/ Sadie was near cryin' with the mad
| in her, she bein' a hard loser at any
game. You're an old fraud. that's
what you are" she splits out. And
you're jusC marrying Pinckneys silly
old aunt 10 get her money
/ But that rolls off Doc like A damage
suit Off'm a corporation. He had us
down and out. In five minutes more
/ he'd have a two hundred-pound wife
and a fifty thOusand-dOllar income.
1T strikes me- says he, over his
shoulder, that if 7 had got hold OF a
/ fortune in the way you got yours.
young woman, / wouldn't make any
/ comments about mercenary mar
I riages"
Well say. up to that time 1 had
half-baked idea I wasn't called on To
/ block his little game. but when he be
/ gins To rub il into Sadie l sOurs on Doc
right away.
Hold on there. Doc" says J. III
give in that you've got your case
quashed as il stood. But maybe some
! one else has get an -iBt'rest in these
dOin's"
'Ahr' says he. And who might that
/ be-"
Mrs Montgomery Smith" says J.
/ 1t was a chance shot, but it rung the
/ bell. Doc goes as limp as a straw hat
/ that's been hooked up after dip in
| the bay. and his eyes took on that
shifty look they had the first time L
I ever saw him.
Why" says he. sWallOWin' hard, and
doing his best to get back the stiff
front he'd been putin up-"why, there
! is no such person
'No?" says l. How about the one
| that calls you Monty and runs you un-
/ der the cOuch?"
ITS a lie" says he. "She's nothing
to me-"
"Oh, we'll" says I, that's between
you and her. She says different. Any
way. she's come clear up here to put in
her bid: 50 it's no moren fair TO give
/ ner a show. I'll just bring her in"
As / starts towards the front door,
Doc gives me one look TO see II
means business. Then, Sadie says. he
| turns the color Of pie crust, drops Aunt
! Tillie as if she was live wire, and
/ jumps through the back door like he'd
1 been kicked by a mule. ] got back just
/ in time to see him hurdle a fve-fOot
hedge without stirrin' a leaf. and the
/ last glimpse we got OF him he was
/ headin' for a stretch Of woods up Con-
/ necticut way.
Looks like you'd just missed assist
/ in at case of bigamy," says L TO the
young preacher, as We was brSngin'
Aunt Title out Of her faint
! shocking" says he Shocking" as
/ he fans himself with a hymn book. He
was takin' it hard.
Aunt Tile wouldn't speak 10 any OF
rs and as we bundled her into her car
riage and sent her home she looked as
mad as a settin' hen with her feet tied.
/ Shorty" says Sadie, on the way
back. that was an elegant blum you
put up"
/ Lucky my hand want called" says
II. But it was rough on the preacher
chan, want it? He had his mouth
/ all made up TO marry some one.
Blamed if I didn't want TO offer him a
! job myself
and who would you have picked out.
/ Shortly"
We'll" says I. lOOkin' her over wish
/ full. there Amt never been but Ons
| girl that I'd choose for side partner,
and she's out of my class now"
Was her name Sullivan once?' says
she
1T was" says T.
She didn't say anything more for
spell after that, and.I didn't: but there's
times when conversation don't fit in.
/ All l know is that you can sit just as
/ close on the back seat Of one of them
/ big benzine carts as you can on par
! lor sofa: and with Sadie snuggled up
AGAINST me 1 felt like IL was always
I goin' To be summer. with Sousa's band
pIayin' somewhere behind the rubber
/ trees.
First thing l knows we fetches up az
my shack IN Primrose Park and / was
standin' on the horse block. alongside
the bubble Sadie'd dropped both hands
ON my shoulders and was turnin them
ewes Of hers on me at close range.
! Francois was loOkin' straight ahead.
and there wasn't anyone I'm sight. So
7 Just took a good look into that pair
of Irish blues.
What a chump you are. Shorty"