The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-01-18

which she read hastily and crumpled
I'm her hand. 1t contained congratu-
lations from a man whom she expect
ed to marry. Unfortunately he was
married man. though he was hoping to
be free. Considering that he was still
bound to a wife, Mrs. Archard did not
confide the matter to her friend Then
q telegram was handed Mrs. Bowles.
1t was from a man she expected to
marry as soon as she became a single
woman again. He. too. had been mar
ried, but had been liberated
Mrs. Archard inquired the time OF
departure Of the first train and learned
that to take 1t she had only sufficient
time to pack. Her only other meeting
with her friend was when she passed
hurriedly out to a conveyance for the
station.
write me-" said Mrs. Archard. CIV
ing the number and street Of an east
ern city, land tell me how you come
out with your suit"
81 will"
But no sooner had Mrs. Archard
gone than Mrs. Bowles remembered
that neither woman had asked the
others married name.
"Oh, DEAR" said Sarah Bowles, now
unfortunate! I can't write her. but
when 1 go east can call at the adj
dress she has given me-"
But when Mrs. Bowles had got her
decree and went east she did not find
her friend at her former home Mrs.
Archard had Just been married and
gone abroad.
Mrs. Bowles, now being free, lost but
little time in taking another partner.
and the newly married couple also
concluded to spend the honeymoon IN
Europe. One morning the two ladies
while shopping In Paris met on the
Rue de la PAX.
"Why, Name" exclaimed Mrs.
Bowles, what are you doing here%
Enjoying life with the best man in
the world Did you get your decreeY'
"Yes. I've just been married to the
other best man In the world"
"I'm in an awful hurry. I'm to 60
| to Fontainebleau at II o'clock. I've
only time to meet my husband at the
/ station. Do come and see me, or,
rather, you and your husband dine
with us tomorrow evening at z, No. A
Rue de B., second floor. We're In
apartments By-byP
A taxicab was passing, and, hailine
It, the lady got in and was driven
away.
"Good gracious" exclaimed the 9th
er, "she didn't give me her married
name. But l have the number. the
street and the floor, 30 we viii have
no trouble in finding her."
The next evening the guests wer'
received on the second floor Of No. A
Rue de B. by a maid, who showed
the gentleman to a robing room ant
the lady to the hostess bedroom
When dinner was announced the tw'
ladies entered the drawing room witt
their arms around each others waist
At the same time the two men enteret
by different doors The four stoo'
| looking at one another with eyes ant
mouths wide open. Without knowing
1t they had snapped partners.
Had they possessed a sense OF no
E NOR they would have laughed In spit
of the trying situation. They stoo'
awkwardly before one another. tn
: women very red, the men restlessl
: changing position every moment
' "Sallie," said Name, turning to ne
: friend, "you said you had married
= brute"
.And you said, Our case exactly"
t The two men looked. the one at tn
2 floor, the other at the ceiling.
!, "My dear" said one OF the mel
e "etiuuette requires that we two b
( introduced"
INV husband, Mr. Patterson" sal
the lady addressed.
my husband. Mr. Archard." sal
' the other.
5 Mrs Archard," said Mr.. Patterso
: to the lady who had been his recer
! wife, will you honor a brute by pc
I hitting him to escort you to dinnerr
l. "Mrs. Patterson said Mr.. Archar'
q will you honor another brute by pc
hitting him to escort you into dil
nerY
e still, there was never smile on Il
y face of any one Of the four. Fac
II looked as II he or she was capable
a biting q nail In two pieces.
IS But the Juicy grape OF La Bel
d France gradually dispelled the lowe
= ing look from their faces. At the CO
clusion Of the dinner the host, raisir
d her glass, said:
I'll sWhat's meat to one is poison TO q
2. other. May we be happy"
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