The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-19
Their Narrow
Escape

| when sne heard his key turn in
the lock the bride of only a few weeks
made a rush for her husband and
clasped his arm tragically as he en-
tered the door.
OH" she cried. I'm SO glad you've
come! I've been perfectly miserable
thinking about 1t all by myself"
Whats happened?" asked her hus.
band, anxiously.
oh. Harry!" she went on. II was
putting up the dining room curtains
and was just as happy-and all of
sudden it occurred to me that instead
OF both OF us having lived in Chicago
all our lives where we simply couldn't
help meeting We might just as easily
have been born in different places!
Suppose-suppose you had always
lived here, but that | had been born
in Australia or India! Why. l cried
for an hour!"
What difference would it have
made?"
you haven't any imagination" she
| retorted Wed never have met.
that's the difference it would have
made! Why, tried and tried to re-
member and couldn't think OF
single soul | knew ever going to
Australia or coming from there-it
might just as we'll be on another
planet!"
You mustn't be foolish. darling"
said her husband You weren't born
there. SO there's nothing to worry
about"
THAT isn't the point" said the
bride Tell me this minute. Harry.
whether you think if had lived there
we would have met? l never could
have loved any one but you and you
couldn't have cared for any one but
me. could you? Oh do you think you
would have thought you were in love
with another if
Now, Mabel" said her husband
after he had taken a deep breath. Il
don't see what you are driving at!
="
You are evading the point" she
declared. You can't honestly say
NO to my question and you are try
ing to distract me! 1t is perfectly
awful to be married only six weeks
and then find your husband doesn't
truly care for you. though | suppose
If I'd had any sense I'd have known
that in the first place-only women
are such stiles they believe everything
that's told them! | don't see how !
am to blame for having trusted you.
for you certainly acted as though you
l-lloved me and"
Stop, stop!" cried her husband.
What on earth's the trouble, any
how? Push Australia off the map
and let's have peace and sunshine
again."
Aunt Sarah said I'd be unh-h-happy
if MN married you!" wept the bride.
"She said your sort Of chin always
wrecked ones l-l-lfe! But l believed
in you! didn't think you were the
sort of man who could fall in love
with different girl every Ave min
utes!"
Well, I'm mott" stormed her exas-
perated husband Il don't know what
you're talking about, Mabel"
But, II I'd lived in Australia" she
persisted, how could you have helped
liking some one else? You wouldn't
have seen me, you know 1t would
have been just the same as though
never existed"
We'll, wouldn't have existed
either!" he declared. You wouldn't
have known or cared a copper cent
about one Harry Sylvester Howard
Chicago, U. S. A.! You'd have been
quite happy adoring some man over
on your side of the globe!"
Harry" she cried in tones which
dripped tragedy. DO you mean to
say you have such a poor idea OF my
affection for you as that? Oh. this
is the last straw? To have you doubt
me! 1t is worse than discovering how
little you really care for me! My
heart is broken. AS though any one
ever could have made the slightest
impression on my affection except you
i don't understand how you can be
so brutal"
II give it up said her husband
Il seem to pick out all the wrong
things to say I'm trying to comfor
you you Call HE udulcS, anu ds
for Australia ] never expect to see 1
and I'm sure | don't want to an(
what it's got to do with you and mt
is more than | can discover"
That's because you're man.
said the bride. Men never do under
stand things that mean so much to
woman! They are perfectly dense
Tell me-are you sure you care NOR,
for me than you ever could for an,
one else?"
Didn't marry your" almos
shouted her husband Then he took
long breath. "Of course | do! | Low,
you madly. devotedly. intensely, dis
tractedly twenty-five hours in the day
Honest!"
well. why didn't you say so a