The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-08-21
Her Three Lovers
BY M QUAD
Copyright. 1910, by Associated Lit
erary Press.
BY M QUAD

Jones Of the village Of Grafton. smart
and good looking. with three lovers in
tow. Each one had proposed marriage
each knew the other had-each was
ready to die for her, and yet the three
were good friends.
There was family skeleton In the
Jones closet, but none Of the lovers
suspected it. The smiling and gracious
Susie had temper like wildcat.
This was only shown out at home
however. Had any Of the young men
suspected 1t he would have reasoned
that he could tame her after mar.
riage. Had he been told 1t he would
have replied that he admired temper
in girl Love isn't blind. It's just
Woody.
The three young men had dangled
and sighed and grown thin for year
when the Methodist church held Its
annual picnic on the bank Of the river
half mile below the village. The
three Of them escorted the young lady
on that occasion. The three Of them
also had an intuition that that would
be momentous day for them. Intui-
ton was right. Young Springer was
the first to discover that 1t was. He
invited Miss Susie to take row with
him on the surface OF the historic
Wabash. She graciously assented No
jealousy on the part of the other two.
They would walk along the bank and
be as happy as they coald.
Young Springer had never rowed a
boat. He had simply seen others do
1t. He did very well, however. for
about ten minutes. That was because
he let the craft drift. while he pro-
posed marriage for about the seventh
time. The answer was the same as 1t
| had always been. Miss Susie would
see about IT. This so encouraged the
lover that he seized the oars and
dipped blade and splashed barrel
of water over the girl in white In the
stern. She screamed. Then. he splash
ed another barrel with the other oar.
1
rose up, and the boat was upset, 1t
was for young Springer to rescue her.
He would have done II slick as grease
had she not. while clinglng to the
waterlogged craft, begun calling him
names. 1t was dreadful the way she
called him blunderhead. dunderhead,
idiot. greenhorn. milksop, red head,
squint eye and thirty other things
How could he rescue her with her
tongue like that2 VI.
Young Springer on sand bar. and
young Brown, on the bank, heard
every word OF the interesting dis
course. but they were not Bit Jealous
When Miss Susie had to stop talking
and hunt around for some more breath
she thought 1t tune to continue ON ia
the shore and go home for dry clothes
Young Brown had not plunged. He
had new pair Of blue suspenders
that II you get pale blue soaking wet
1t will crock dollar shirt and add
cents to the price Of washing at a
Chinese laundry. lie had told Miss
Susie that be stood ready to die for
her, but of course he meant dry
and not q wet death. IL these things
are properly understood at the fine
they are spoken much confusion may
be saved later on. Young Brown
waited to extend his hand when the
nymph should come near enough.
No jealousy on the part Of the other
two-a great deal of wetness and mud
but no jealousy.
The bedraggled Miss Susie extended
her lily wet hand. but In so doing she
lost her balance and went under waite
again. AS there was good bed o
mud 10 fall on, no bones were broken
Those pale blue suspendcrs were still
in young Browns thoughts. 1t wal
time to plunge, but he didn't do 1t
Instead. be reached down and seize(
dainty little foot to which a panfu
Of mud was clinging and hauled lh'
half drowned girl up the bank. n,
jealousy on the part of the others. On
the contrary, they looked on admIring
ly. Susie gurgled and gasped ant
coughed. and Mr. Brown knelt besd,
her wet form and asked her for bis
sake to recover II she died. then Il,
wanted 10 die too He didn't wan
to die of mud and water. but Of {
Black Hand bomb. He wanted to b,
In an Italian grocery buying macaron
when the bomb exploded. and he want
ed his faithful and loving heart to b.
blown clear across the street
Miss Susie could not withstand tn
appeal. She returned to life and tn
state Of Indiana and the Wabash river
and then she made jerky little speeche
to her rescuer. He had rescued he
heels first; be had dragged her up OF
the bank; be had dragged her afte
she was up the bank. All the name
she had called the other two she nos
bestowed on the trembling Brown am
then added twenty new ones for goo,
measure. Then, scorning all assist
ance, she started for home, leaving
Wabash trail as she went. When sh
had gone the three lovers came to
gether. No jealousy.
: by goshp said Springer
! "By gum" said Cotton
"By swipesw said Brown.
And week later Miss Susie sent TO
: Mr. Brown and demandcJ.