The daily Alaskan., 1912-12-10
SHE MARRIED
 HIM
By ARTHUR w. BREWSTER


 A number of ladies drinking after. noon tea were narratng experiences in their first meeting with their hus- bands. Some could not remember this beginning of thelr marital affairs and some meetings were commonplace. One experience was quite thrilling The lady told it as follows:
 I was just twenty years old and was travelling abroad. There are today many and were then a few American girls who thought nothing of travelling in Europe alone. was one of these. While In Paris, devoting my time to sight seeing. I made an excursion to FontalnebleRu. It is an interesting relic of former times, especially of Napoleon the Great, who there signed his abdl- cation as emperor of France and took leave of bis troops. spent a pleasant day there and aimed In the afternoon to take a certain train to Paris. But l delayed so long among the curlos that I was late in arriving at the station. When the train approached I was stu at quite a distance. But the driver whipped bis horse to a gallop and l reached the station a moment before the train started again.
 I Jumped from the carriage, handing the driver the fare as I did SO, and ran for the train. The doors of the coaches were shut but thinking l could open one of them stepped on to the footboard. The door l attempted to enter was locked Thinking the passengers might open lt from the in- side. I called upon them to do so. But the door had been locked by the guard and they were unable to open it
 The train started and was about to step back on to the platform of the station when a man inside called out to me to hold on and he would lift me in. This decided me to remain wherC was that he might do SO. He tried and failed. I was left hanging on to the door handle.
 He became my husband? Not at all. After inducing me to remain where ] was instead of regaining the platform while it was still possible he permitted me to hang on alone, my life every mo ment in danger. He might have got out and supported me, but he did not.
 Meanwhile the train was going at I thought I should lose my grip. Besides, the wind made by the train was fright ful, coming as 1t did in gusts How long I must remain in my perilous po- sition before the train stopped at the next station l did not know; but one thing knew, if the time was long l would be lost, for could not stand the continued iolting and wind blasts, There are no bell cords on European trains as there are in America, and those who saw me were unable to stop the train.
 was wondering how long 1 could hold on when saw man getting out of window of the coach next ahead of me. He gained the footboard and worked his way to the rear end of his coach.
 No, he was not my husband either. He did not dare to attempt to pass the space between the two coaches. He looked at 1t lugubriously, then at me, then made his way back to his com nartment and climbed in at the win dow, leaving me to my fate.
 I turned about In order to face the wind instead of having it on my back, and saw a man coming toward me from the first coach after the engine. When he reached the end of his car he did not look at the interval between 1t and the next, but grasped what was reQuir- ed for the feat and swung himself to ward the next car. For a few moments he hung in midair, not being able to get his feet on the footboard of the coach he was striving to reach. Then he succeeded, and breathed again.
 He sldled along easily till he reach ed the next interval, looking at me as much as to say: Hold on; I'll be with you in a moment" But when he strove to cross the next interval between coaches he was not as fresh as he had been and found the passage more difficult But he succeeded, and had but one more interval to cross.
 Meanwhile my own strength was rapidly waning. At any moment lurch might come that would shake me of the foot board and at the rate the train was going would probably have been dashed to pieces. Pausing for an instant to wave a hand to me en- couraglngly, my would be rescuer started for the last gap. He hung be- tween the cars, as he had done at the first crossing, and 1t seemed to me that this time it would be impossible for him to secure a footing. But he sue ceeded at last and in a few moments more his arm was around my waist
 There was a danger of my fainting. Indeed, I was only prevented by new terror. was no sooner supported by my preserver than the train dashed on to a high bridge and we were cling t--- .A..-. An,, -.,rN,,. ,F i, vfvar for