The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-12-06

MY other husband! Do you take
me for bigamist?"
"Well, the man you were to have
married instead of me-"
Don't call him a man; he hadn't
the courage for such an affair. He
was afraid of father and showed the
white feather at the critical moment.
But you will help me, of course, to
annul this marriage"
mo, l WON'T
What do you mean?
"Tm satisfied"
Satisfied? Well, / like that! You
don't mean that you have any idea of
letting the matter stand as it is?"
"Why not?"'
"For the lands sake! Why, this Is
the first time we have ever met"
Except on the night of our we'd
ding.
Wedding! Do you call that a real
wedding? Why, it wouldn't stand in
law. That is. so my lawyer says,
though one of us might make the 9th
er lot of trouble
did he say that?"
Yes, / believe he said something
like it."
well. I'm going to make the trouble.
l won't give you up"
"Nonsenser'
saw that she was pleased Her
lover had lost her by want of pluck
l determined to win her by bragga-
| docio.
Perhaps you think your intended
husband will fight for you. I'm ready
to die rather than give you up to him.
"Oh, no, he wouldn't fight on any
account. But fatherl You'll find him
terrible. He'll grind you to powder"
Il will have every drop of blood in
his body"
IF Billy had only talked. or. rather.
acted that wayr' she said sadly.
"But he didn't"
What put it into your head that you
wanted this-this so called marriage
to stand?"
ION seeing you I swore that you
! should remain my wife"
why, it was only by the light of a
match
1T was enough"
And you're going" she said after
a pause, ito fight my application for
| an annulment?"
eyes, and I'll fight every one who
presumes to help you"
But you certainly don't want wife
whom you haven't seen but once
! Twice"
Between whom and you there has
been no courtship no love passages.
one whom you don't know anything
about. l may be a Jezebel."
"And 1 may be an ogre"
She laughed.
Zone thing insist upon"
"You insist upon? What right have
you
"a husbands right"
''Well, l declarer
II don't wish you to see again the
man you were to have married"
"You don't. eh? Well you may com
mand me in that, for don't wish to
see him.
That's lucky. We shall not have
to quarrel about it; but. seriously
! there is a saying. Act in haste and
repent at leisure Now. suppose we
both drop the matter for the present
think 1t likely that some legal action
should be taken if separation is to
be effected. and it will require time
to determine what that action should
be. Meanwhile l ask the same privi-
leges as the man you were to have
married and no more would like
to call upon you''
| l could see that this view of the
case was a relief to her. She granted
me the permission | desired, and when
we separated by a few grotesque re-
marks on the situation l got her to
laughing
1t turned out that so far as her in
tended marriage was concerned the
episode with me that prevented it was
| a godsend The man was worthless.
! and her father knew it. When he dis
covered my accidental part and how
it had saved his daughter from mis-
alliance he became very friendly with
me. He had keen sense Of fumor
which / fed. The result was that he
took a fancy to me- took me into his
business. and | eventually became his
son-in-law both in fact as we'll as in
law.