New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1912-05-15
CHAPTER TX.
All Aboard!


the ironical decorators In the last
| stages of their work. Their smiles
died out In sudden shame, as it
came over them that the joke had re-
eoiled on their own heads. They had
done their best to carry out the time
honored rite Of making newly mar
lied couple as miserable as possible
and the newly married couple mad
failed to do it's share.
The two ieutenants glared at each
other in mutual contempt. They had
studied much at West Point about
ambushes, and how to avoid them.
Could Mallory have escaped the pit
they had digged for him? They
looked at their handiwork in disgust.
The cOsy-cOrner effec, of white rib
bons and orange flowers, gracefully
masking the concealed rice-trap, had
seemed the wittiest thing ever de-
vised. Now it looked the silliest.
The other passengers were equally
downcast. Meanwhile the two lovers
in the corridor were kissing good
byes as if they were hoping to store
up honey enough to sustain their
hearts for three years fast. And
the porter was studying them with
perplexity.
He was used, however, to waking
people out of dreamland, and he be-
gan to fear that If he were discovered
spying on the lovers, he might suf-
fer. So he coughed discreetly three
or four times.
Since the increasing racket of the
train made no effect on the two hearts
beating as one, the small matter of a
cough was as nothing.
Finally the porter was compelled to
reach forward and tap Mallory's arm,
and stutter:
"'Scuse me, but co-could git b.by?"
The embrace was united, and the
lovers stared at him with a dazed,
where-am-I? look. Marjorie was the
first to realize what awakened them.
She felt called upon to say something,
SO she said, as carelessly as If she
had not just emerged from a young
gentleman's arms: .,.
"Oh, porter, how long before the
train starts?" ~,
TRAINS done started, Missy"
This simple statement struck the
wool from her eyes and the cotton
from her ears, and she was wide
enough awake when she cried: "Oh,
stop it-stop it,"
That's mon I can do. Missy" the
porter expostulated.
Then I'll Jump or" Marjorie
vowed. making dasn for the door.
But the porter filled the narrow
path, and waved her back.
''vestibule's done locked up
trains going Mckety-split." Feeling
that he had safely checkmated any
rashness, the porter squeezed past
the dumbfounded pair, and went to
change his blue blouse for the white
coat Of his chambermaidenly duties.
Mallory's first wondering thought was
a rapturous feeling that circum.
stances had forced his dream into q
reality. He thrilled with triumph:
you've got to 60 with me now"
"Yes-1've got to co." Marjorie as
sented meekly; then, sublimely, Its
fate. Kismet!'
They clutched each other again in
q fiercely blissful hug. Marjorie came
back to earth with bump: Are
you really sure there's minister on
board"
pretty sure" said Mallory, sober.
Ing trifie.
"But you said you were sure?"
well, when you say you're sure,
that means you're not quite sure
It was not an entirely satisfactory
and Marjorie began to
quake with alarm: Suppose there
shouldn't be-"
"Oh, them" Mallory answered care.
lessly, there's bound to be one to
Marjorie realized at once the enor
nous abyss between then and the
and she gasped: Tomorrow!
And no chapseon! Oh. III jumN out :