The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-03-07

Tom received them gieefuIy. Now he said
we've got them in the together III stand the
other side Of the and you stand this side
and Wen see that neither Of them gets away" Il
must be confessed that this was unnecessary and
less malicious but Tom had lost Susan and
had suffered great chagrin beforetes and naturally
wished 10 make taings
When the train drew out OF the station Susan
waved her hand teeby her friends the platform;
then she and Tim looked al each other Gueerly for
long time
A-i-~t Tim said: Well you are q lulu you arei
Why didn't get OF the train when you found that
hadn't got back with the handbag
u was going TO- qUavered Susan. but some oas
said that man had jumped the back end OF ths
train wiki valise IN MS hand, and supposed Il
you. II It had been you. and had jumped OF then
you would have gone away on Iae train without ne.
Tim groaned and grated his teeth together I'm
Just out Of asylum" he said.
%. Tim gaspeI Susan. and fell speeches.. gsz-
ing al him wildly.
yes" rasped Tim. kicking viciousy al Al i-naEi-
nary something under the seat I looking for
you in Des Moines. for understood you had been
there, and was arrested for escaped Iunatic-
O. I'm. How you must have looked cried
Susan
Yes. s'pose So" snarled Tin. "but couldn't
help that" Then he began TO chuckle md laugh
softly 1t funny scrape. anyway he
on. You see, there an asylum out near the
town. and Il appears that certain man came
there with his insane brother put the one
in the institution but the insane brother had been
sane brother ordinary looking chap Wen,
you've heard how deuced cute some insane people are
Yes; well this insane parsoa was glib and
smooth tOngued he really made the people at the
asylum believe that he the and that
brought his poor. loony brother commit him
the institution. So they put the man IN OF
course he protested and swore. the
the more certain they were that he was the insane
MAJ while real lunstic pof:.s and sorry, and
said that Of all crazy asserted that they
were crazy and for them TO just lock his poor.
-+a1h nm onvnr could ha hn1
ali right
So they locked up the sane man. and the insane
guy came downtown and boarded freight train and
left for home After few hours they found their
mistake and began securing the town for the crazy
man. happened to So being a
stranger and looking and acting pretty queer. they
concluded I the lunatc and 2. Naturally
I made terrible kick-prOtest mean-but that
only made the matter worse They were
crazy when declared that I had lost my bride snd
hunting for her.
well they took ne 70 the asylum and chucled
ne in and II you'll believe me. II that measly sane
brother didn't think I the right man Maybe
looked some Ike the crazy preacher, but believe
the sane brother had gone half crazy himself and
didn't care rap they put they let him out
Why only just glanced at and then said: Yes
that's him. and got skedaddled. You see, he
didn't be shut up with those other lunatics
any longer
Wei. there was shut up IN Iunatlc asylum.
I didn't know where the world you were They
had put IN a straitjacket before they could
happened, only the brother went home by the
hrst train He was IN hurry 20 get out OF iowa
where they made such mistakes. you When he
got home he found the insane preacher making mCd
pies and brought him back the asylum the day
and they let out. When I going up the street
from the asylum 7 met Tom he said he had heard
that they just put unusually crazy IN the
asylum. and he coming out II Il wasn't me-
Susan gazed at her husband moment with tear
ful eyes o, Tim. just 70 think that came near
marrying who was capable OF saying such
thing 70 YOU And theR-and then But. unable to
express her feelings in language her head dropped on
his shoulder and she wept
Tim pityingly smoothed her hair and called her
his innocent. blue eyed dove and assured her
that they would 70 Denver and not return home
for q month.
Don't want TO 90 hPme-never." cried Susan.
stamping her foot
But they did go home. and a truthful historian
bound 70 record the fact that. despite the acct
dents OF chance and the trckeries Of fate they lived
and loved and -<are reasonably happy.