The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-01-01
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AFTER THE WEDDING
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The maid OF honor settled herself in
the carriage with a great fiutter OF
laces and chiffon and gave a long sigh. /
Wasn't Cora just the loyeliest bride I
you ever saw" she demanded breath
lessly OF the tall young man who |
climbed in after her.
She was certainly a winner" admit |
ted the young man. 1T made me kind !
Of blue. though, ushering for Toms
wedding. tell you, He's the best
ever and | hate to lose HIM"
Lose him." cried the maid OF honor.
II think it's perfectly hateful for a
mans friends 10 act as IL he had been
snatched from them eternally by a
cruel fate, just because he marries a
nice girl and settles down. It's"
"Oh. don't mean il that way" pro
tested the tall young man. I'm not
down on matrimony. | think ! was
blue because IL wasn't nv wedding.
If"
Aren't you frightfully tired?" broke
in the maid of honor hurriedly. Il am
standing up at that reception for
three hours straight, | can't imagine
why Aunt Matte went home without
mel"
Il hope" said the young man, stifiy,
you don't think | forced myself on
you, Coras mother asked me to take
you safely home"
oh" said the bridesmaid, with equal
haughtiness, II knew, OF course. II was
something like that, knew you
never would condemn yourself 10 an
hours ride with me unless you simply
couldn't get out OF it. I'm very sorry
you should be so bored."
Now. Genevieve." said the young
man. don't be so foolish, You know
perfectly well I'm not bored"
Il suppose" said the maid OF honor
Jelly. THAT was the real trouble-my
constitutional foolishness, That was
why you discovered it was all mis-
take"
II" cried the usher IF it wasn't
you who broke of our engagement fail
and square I'd like TO have some one
point out TO me what really happened.
Il thought you wanted II broker
on" said the maid OF honor. I'm
glad IL wasn't announced and nobod,
knew it. I'd hate so to put you e
any trouble or annoyance. AS 1t Is
nobody is the wiser. | don't suppos'
Cora's mother realized she was picking
out the one girl in all the world yo'
disliked most for you TO escort home
Isn't it funny?"
Perfectly killing" said the youn
man 1T makes me feel about as muc
like Laughing as a funeral would. IL
a shame, too. when the best man obv
ously was yearning for my chance!"
why didn't you give 1t 10 HIN
D them" inquired the maid OF homo
7 smoothly.
Great guns," breathed the ushe
you don't really care anything abol
2 Tad Kirby, do you? He hasn't enoug
a brains to put in a peanut shell, for a
c his money He"
II your temper certainly hasn't II
Ie proved any" broke in the maid
II honor. you haven't particle of rig
to object TO Tad's paying me attention
" If / choose to let him
81 I'm quite well aware Of that" sa
il the young man, stormily.
e We'll" said the maid of honor.
doesn. make any difference TO you,
fl in can't worry you much.
That's all you know about II, sa
IL the usher. "Why-if things hadr
gone TO smash we-you and I-wou
be having our wedding just abo
now"
!. Think of it," cried the maid
honor. interestedly. Think VIII
* you've escaped. and thank fate, WI
Z, ali your best friends might be sighil
n over YOU as you just sighed over To
i and mourning because they had Il
- you, AS il is. you are safe and r.
!. cued and entirely free,"
a. I'm glad you can be so philosol
ical.' said the young man. 1T sho
YOU really didn't care much II you c
consider the affair so lightly. Not Il
| expected your heart would be brok'
IN but | thought possibly you might ha
m a little tender feeling for what is p;
IN and for what might have been
er- There was a little silence as tn
M rolled along. Then the maid OF nor
ne spoke casually.
Tor 'Neither Tom nor Cora seemed a
Is scared at the wedding" she said.
ia never saw people beam as they d
m They really seemed happy"
ro- When the young man spoke his vo
"a was gruff. mot half" he said.
happy as you and | would have beer
things hadn't gone wrong, oh. &c
on vieve-I can't stand IL any long
Isn't there a chance for us TO go b'
10 the beginning and start all o
en- again.
all The maid Of honor was crying /
her ridiculous handkerchief. Il
Du- thought" she gasped. I'D just d-die
evening. I was so miserable. DO
really care7"
THANK heaven. Cora's mother b
- pened to send me home with yc
murmured the young man, somew
indistinctly.
For the first time the maid OF no
laughed. a choked. hysterical ii
-. laugh. "She-she didn't happen
~ she confessed. II asked her tot
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