Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-02-02
ATurnID the Tables

W0ulo only connde 70 my bosom
friend. A terrible blunder for which
i alone am responsible has made a
great change in my life. / can never
think Of Il without horror, shame, NOR.
tification, humiliation Indeed, every
frightfuI emotion for which there Is q
word in the English language. And
yet / confess that this incident has
brought me the most exquisite happi-
ness ! have TO announce TO you, my
dearest, sweetest, ioveIiest friend, my
engagement. Bob has won my con-
sent at last.
But l must admit that Bob took an
unfair advantage OF me. while love
him and 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 10. But you know how sweet
It IL for a woman to have q man hum
BILE himself before her. tell her that
without her be will become wreck,
implore her to have mercy upon him.
All this I might have had were It not
for my mistake.
had kept Bob dangling for year.
l had given him but little hope. con-
fess that his pain was my pleasure.
When he fretted laughed at him,
when he rebelled assumed a naughty
tone and asked by what Authority be
presumed to dictate TO me, and never
after the slightest sign Of independ-
ence on his part did restore him to
favor except he came to me through
the valley Of humiliation.
Now, when consider that he not
only compelled me TO desist from such
treatment, but assumed to make condt
tionM when think that he got me, so
TO speak, in hole. acted in a mean,
contemplate. selfish, disgusting. bru-
tai
But am forgetting that l am en-
gagged to him and love him devotedly
II IL dangerous for me to give you this
story. for In the telling Of 1t l am
liable to wish that had my lover on
q spit roasting him before a slow fire.
However, since must tell somebody
and yon are my own true, loyal friend.
/ viii hurry through II lest my indignaL
tion get the better Of me and 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 In the same train.
making the journey In the night. Alice
and I occupied a lower berth. while
Sue and Lille did the same. The boys
bunked together. except Bob, who took
a berth for himself alone. We were 4
merry party on the train. talking and
laughing. TIL disagreeable old man.
why are old people permitted to live,
] wonder?-called out from his berth
that the fool killer was coming through
the train. Thinking that this might
possibly be hint for as to get into
our bertha, we did 30, and the car soon
wore tho silence Of slumbeF. OF course
the silence Of slumber 4 different in a
sleeping car from 3 nursery. A numt
Der Of people snored frightfully.
In the middle Of the might awoke
with a terrible thirst. I was IN my
wrapper and had my slippers on. I
crawled over Alice, who slept on the
outside. went to the end Of the car to
the cooler, got drink and started
back.
Now, these sleeping cars, when one
wishes to ind ones berth, are perfect
" awful. | was lost. | looked for the
porter, but he was not visible.
peeped into several bertha, IN each
case seeing q stranger asleep. Then
II occurred 10 mo that my berth was
the fourth from the rear end Of the
car. Acting on this, | made q plunge
A figure rolled In the bedclothes was
on the outside. l climbed over II and
had one hand and knee ON one aide Of
It. the other hand and knee on the
other side. when the sleeper stretched
forth a hand, pulled the curtain aside.
and the horrid lampllght shone down
on the face Of
How shall ever get the story told I
What was l doingI What frightfuy
fate had possession Of met There "
meath me lay man-not only q man
but the man whom l had been perse4
cutting was getting into bed with
oh, horrors!--with Bob. He was look
Ing up into my eyes. l down into his.
Mercy / cried and. rolling out into
the aisle. rushed back to the other end
OF the car. There ! found the porter
coming In at the door. and he put nae
IN my berth.
or course didn't sleep wink. How
could ~ The next morning Bob made
no reference to the matter by look or
word tai we were all az breakfast IN
the dining car. Then he said:
Anybody sick IN the nightr'
I knew what was coming, flushed
crimson and gave him an imploring
look. But he kept ON making al kinds
Of innuendoes without telling on me
tn I was almost frantic.
Wei, when We went back into our
car ws found the beFths put away,
ana Bob took a seat beside me. AS
suming an Independent tone. he said
that had one more chance. and one
only. 10 he his wife. | must decide