Connecticut western news., 1910-01-20
HER FOURTH.
By M. QUAD.

HaC III tafnf tlDn IS tulS dDOut your marrying Jim Carter yesterdayr said Henry Doty to Eunice Smith.
 We were married" was the reply.
 "Eut was going to marry you my self"
 q never knew it. You never said anything about it."
 And you won't get a divorce from Jim?'
 "Of course not
 By gum, Eumice, this is using man mighty mean! 1 was jest taking time to think things over, and you go off and marry. It's a mean trick on 9 fellerr'
 "Oh, there are other girls"
 "But don't want 'em. 1 want you, and I'm going to stay single till my chance comes"
 It came i'll about a year. James Carter was assisting q neighbor to load saw logs when one of them broke loose and rolled over him, and Ire was no more. Henry Doty didn't rejoice, but he was OH hand at the funeral. He oversaw things for the widow for three or four days and then returned to his job. As he held her hand and bade her goOdby he said:
 "Eunice, there was something l wanted to say to you, but it slipped my mind. Mebbe I'll think of it next time 1 come'
 The widow returned to her parents, and the hired man made her a call three or four times a week, but he never talked love. He simply thought love when he was alone. They'd get married when the year was up, and when they got to the Falls they'd put up at the best house and hang the expense. Fourteen months had passed, and Henry was thi1king of tying a string around his thumb to make him remember to ask Eunice that question when he was suddenly told that she had married a wire fence man who was working in the neighbOrhoOd. He greased his boots and combed his hair and went over to the house to say:
 "Eunice, if you've gone and done it again l can never forgive you. You knew I was calculating to marry you myself"
 But you never said anything about it." she retorted.
 "But 1 was getting ready to-
 If you'd only said'-
 "Oh, well. I'll have to stand it, sup pose. Mebbe it's all for the best. Mebbe the living will be cheaper by that time. Pm going to keep right on jest as I am till get you"
 Mr Davis, the second husband, was fat and rugged and seemed good for forty years mere of life, but one can never tell about those things. He was made very happy man by the mar riage and continued in the wire fence business to make others happy. After eight months had gone by he was put ting up fence for a farmer enc day when a thunderstorm came up. Mir. Davis had his hands on the wire when the electric fluid found it and shocked him to death. Queerly enough, Henry Doty was driving past in a wagon at the time and was the messenger to an nounce the sad news to the double widow. He realized that it was no time to speak of a bridal trip then and held his peace.
 Once more the widow came back to the old home, and things went on as before. Henry returned to the habit of dropping in frequently, and he only waited for the days to pass until he could ask the question always upper most in his mind. One evening be presented himself with a string twist ed around his thumb, but when the widow called his attention to 1t he couldn't remember what he had made sure not to forget. Now and then the farmer for whom he labored and who knew his thoughts would jog him with:
 "Henry, the time is passing along. and the widow may step off again any day"
 "But don't hear of anybody being after her"
 "You don't always hear about such things. Widows step right off without much courting."
 "Yes. I must speak to Eunice. l was a-thinking this afternoon l would"
 But he didn't. He just let things drift on. and one Sunday evening he dropped in just after she had married the rural mail carrier OH that route. Henry was indignant and desperate.
 "Why didn't you say something" he demanded of the bride"
 '"Why didn't you?"
 "Say, this is throwing a good man down powerful hard. This is the third time I've lost your
 But you've never said you wanted me. You don't expect a woman to pop the question, do you?"
 All right, Eunice-all right. l can wait Bound to get you and make trip if I wait long enough"
 Tt was just eleven months to a day that as the carrier came to a narrow place in the highway he encountered load of hay. Tn trying to pass it his cart was upset. and when 1t was right ed he was found with q broken neck. Henry Doty was coming up with freshly killed hog in his wagon, and
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