The Alaska citizen., 1910-07-30

Hello, Andy, says MACK out or his face Glad to see you back. | Things have happened since you went away"
 'I know it." says l, and sac rilegious sight it is. God never made you that way, Mack Lonsbury. Why do you scarify his works with this presumptuous kind of ribaldry?"
 Why, Andy" says he, they've elected me justice of the peace since you left"
 l looked at Mack close. He was restless and inspired. A justice of the peace ought to be disconsolate and assuaged
 l Just then a young lady passed on the sidewalk, and l saw Mack kind of half snicker and blush, and then he raised up his hat and smiled and bowed, and she smiled and bowed and went on by.
 No hope for you" says l, If you've got the Mary Jane infirmity at your age. I thought it wasn't
 going to take on you. And patent
 leather shoes! All this in two little short months."
 I'm going to marry that young
 lady who just passed tonight says
 Mack, in a kind of futter.
 T forgot something at the post
 office" says and walked away
 quick
 l overlook that young woman a
 hundred yards away. l raised my
 hat and told her my name. She was
 about nineteen and young for her
 age. She blushed and then looked
 at me cool, like l was the snow
 scene from the TWO Orphans.
 T understand you are 70 be mar
 ried tonight" l said.
 Correct" says she. You got any
 objections 2"
 Listen, sissy" l begins. My name is Miss Rebosa Redd," :"
 says she in a pained way.
 
 I'm old enough to have owed money to your father. And that old, spe- cious, dressed up, garbled, seasick , ptomaine prancing around ayidiOus, ', ly like an irremediable turkey gob- bier with patent leather shoes on is my best friend. Why did you go and get him invested in this marriage , business?"
 Why, he was the only chance there was" answers Miss Rebosa. Nay" says I, giving a sickening f look of admiration at her complex
 ion and style of features. With your beauty you might have picked any , kind of a man. Listen, Rebosa Old , Mack ain't the man you want. He
 was twenty-two when you was nee f Reed, as the papers say This burst , into bloom won't last with him. Hes all ventilated with oldness and recti- v tude and decay. Old Macks down 3 with a case of Indian summer. He I overlooked his bet when he was l young, and now he's suing nature
 for the interest on the promissory 7. note he took from Cupid instead of l the cash. Rebosa, are you bent on ] having this marriage occur?" t Why, sure l am" says she, os. 9 cillating the pansies on her hat g and so is somebody else, l reckon. g What time is it to take place?" l I asks.
 l At o'clock" says she. l l made up my mind right away q what to do. I'd save old Mack if
 could. To have a good, seasoned s ineligible man like that turn chick :. en for girl that hadn't quit eating l slate pencils and buttoning in the . back was more than I could look l. on with easness.
 "Rebosa," says l, earnest, drawing :, upon my display of knowledge con, q corning the feminine munitions of e reason, 'ain't there a young man in '- Pina-a nice young man that you ] think a heap of?" '- Yep" said Rebosa, nodding her
 pansies. Sure there is. What do . you think? Gracious," f Does he like you?" I asks. How t does he stand in the matter?' f Crazy" says Rebosa. Ma has to ? wet down the front steps to keep him S from sitting there all the time But - 1 guess that'll be all over after to- s night" she winds up with a sigh s "Rebosa," says l, you don't really
 experience any of this adoration call 2 ed love for old Mack, do you?" : Lord, mol" says the girl, shaking + her head. T think he's as dry as a l lava bed The ideal" 5 "Who is this young man that you 3 like, Rebosa?" I inquires f It's Eddie Bayles," says she. He 3 clerks in Crosby's grocery But he , don't make but thirty-five a month. Ella Noakes was wild about him once."
 } "Old Mack tells me- I says, that
 he's going to marry you at o'clock , this evening""