The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-14
Their Secret
By EDWARD TURNER
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation 1871
BY EDWARD TURNER

man of thiTty-tive. The man was a
bachelor the woman "A widow with II
son about sixteen years old.
Are yOn the second husbandE"
asked the groum after the ceremony.
I'm the second or the third. in not
slre which" he replied. panied eS'
preston passing over his face. | ask
ed him to explain. bat he seemed re.
luctant To do 50 | was about To turn
away from him when he said.
You're clergyman and guod
man to confess to. II youli keep the
secret I'll tell YOU
DO as you please about telling me.
II you intrust me with the secret /
shall certainly keep 1t"
When | was about as old as my
wife Is now. be began, she was ii
thin ,stip Of a girl, all arms and legs.
like colt. But she was purity. all the
same. aud soon after that filed out
There was mighty soft spot in my
heart for ber. But |, bs.n mau Or
thirty and She ii striplin' OF htteen.
wouldn't "A said anything about 1t for
the biggest ship that floats ! watch
ed her grow up. thinkiu that when
she got older J might muster up conr'
nge to ask her u marry me- Ruf 10
q Young gal Ike that there's ii heap
Of love maxim before she's. even TWEEN.
ty
Her father had Teller picked out
for her His name was PilShnfy =,
JACK riIIshury IA mighty good yaiing
man He was first male OF a tramp,
and every time he came in from
cruise he hrouebt home lot or mon
ey 10 invest But there was another
teller the little gal wanted, aud he
wanted her But Maggie that's her
name-was mighty fond of her father
and was bent on dom what he want
ed her 10 do. She shipped jim Hoi'
den, the Teller she loved. and married
Jack pillshury.
Jack he kept on goiu' to sea and
so did Jim Jim was awful cut up
at losin Maggie ana wouldn't marry
any other gal She was well satisfied
with lack and always looked for him
10 come back from his cruises But
after awhile he went on a cruise that
he didn't come back from He was
due in wear. but three Years passed
and he didn't show up
After awhile. when II looked as If
Jac; must be dead-the ship he sailed
in WAS never heard from Jim Holden
began ia hester Maggie lo marry him
gh. held ont for a tauq while hui at
last give in 'Thpy wrr.. mnrri4d ana
the boy You saw fast NOW come along
1atl. and NYgulr dtdtt nave any chi.
Gren. Maggie Mas hnrny with Jim
excppt that she was always wurr,u
about not KNOWN whether she didut
have two husbands luu seq she
dIdn'f know positive whether Jack was
dead. and if he wasn't she was living
with man that she warnt married
10 and the boy WAS iliegitimute.
All this time / was dom friendly
things for tile woman. she not know
IN anything about how | really felt
toward her. She give me her con
fdence and told ME what troubled
her. One day after a storm q lot o
wreckage come in With several dead
bodies ! was out In my boat aud saw
Maggie beckonin' To me from the
beach. ! went 10 tn where she was
ana saw that she was standih DIV
hody' she was the Wte"heuest i"oh
ing Wohah ever saw
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