Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-09-19

thing" she retorted, In equal des.
peration. If we're q man, and I
had the girl ! loved on a train. I'd
get her married 1t / had to wreck
The she caught her breath, paused
a second in intense thought and
then, with sudden radiance, cried:
Harry, dear"
Yes. loye!"
Il have an idea-an inspiration"
yes. pet rather obviously from
him, but with absolute eXultntion from
her; Let's wreck the train"
Il don't follow you. sweetheart"
Don't you see?" she began excited.
~ When there are train wrecks n
lot Of people get killed. and things.
4 minister always turns up to admin
lister the last something or Other
we'll"
"Well?"
Well. stupid. don't you see? We
wreck a train. a minister comes, we
nab him. he marrles us, and-there
We are! Eyerything's lovely"
lie gave her one OF those looks
with which man usually greets what
4 woman calls an inspiration He did
not honor her invention with an.
alysis He simply put forward an OBJ
lection 20 IL, and, man-like. chose the
most hateful OF all objections:
IT'S a lovely idea. but the wreck
would delay US for hours and hours.
ana I'D miss my transport
Harry Mallory. # you mention that
odious transport TO me again, know
IN have hydrophobia. I'm going
home"
but, darling" he pleaded you
can't desert me now, and leave me to
20 on alone?' She had her answer
glib.
IF you really loved me, you'd"
oh, ] know" he cut in. You've
said that before. But Id be court.
martialed. I'd lose my career"
What's career to man who
truly loves?"
It's just as much as 1t is TO any.
body else--and more"
She could hardly controvert this
gracefully, so she sank back with
grim resignation. We'll, I've pro-
posed my plan, and you don't like it.
Now, suppose you propose something"
The silence was oppressive. They
sat like stoughton bottles. There the
conductor found them some time
later He gave them a careless look,
selected chair at the end of the
car, and began to sort his tickets,
spreading them out on another chair,
making notes with the pencil he took
from atop his ear, and showed back
from time to time.
Ages seemed to pass. and Mallory
had not even a suggestion BY this
time Marjorie's temper had evaporat-
ed, and when he said: If we could
only stop at some town for half an
hour" she said: Maybe the conduc-
tor would hold the train for US"
II hardly think he would"
He looks like an awfully nice man.
You ask him.
"Oh, what's the use?"
Marjorie was getting tired OF de
pending on this charming young man
Win INC very bdu luGh. oLt utNlutu
TO assume command herself. She
took recourse naturally to the orig.
inal feminine methods: IN take care
OF him." she said, with resolution. "A
woman can get a man TO do almost
anything If she flirts a little with
him"
"Marjorie!"
Now, don't you mind anything
do. Remember, it's all for love OF
you-even II have to kiss him"
Marjorie, | won't permit"
You have no right to boss me
yet. You subside." She gave him the
merest touch. but he fell backward
into a chair. utterly aghast at the
shameless siren into which despera
ton had altered the timid little thing
he thought he had chosen to love. lie
was being rapidly initiated into the
complex and versatile and fearfully
wonderful thing a woman really is
and he was saying to himself, What
have | married." forgetting, for the
moment, that he had not married hel
yet, and that therein lay the whole
trouble.