The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-06-05

is no tub on this beastIy train p
Wedgewood almost fell out of BED
with the shock of this news.
I'VE do not carry tubs-no, sab
There's a lot of tubs in San Fran
cisco. though"
mo tub on this train for four days!'
Wedgewood sighed. But whatever
does one do in the meanwhile?"
"One just waits. Yassah, one and
all waits"
IT'S ghahstl. that's what it is
ghahstly."
"Yassah." said the porter, and
mumbled as he walked away, but the
weather is gettin' cooler"
He finished preparing Marjorie's
bunk. and was just suggesting that
Mallory retreat to the smoking room
while number three was made IN
when there was a commotion In the
corridor, and man in checked over.
alls dashed into the car.
His ear was slightly red, and he
held at arms length, as II II were a
venomous monster, Snoozleums. And
he yelled:
Say, whose durn dog is this? He
bit two men, and he makes so much
noise we can't sleep in the baggage
car"
Marjorie went flying down the aisle
to reclaim her lost lamb in VOLTS
clothing, and Snoozleums, the returned
prodigal, yelped and leaped, and told
her all about the indignities he had
been subjected to, and his valiant
struggle for liberty.
Marjorie, seeing only Snoozleums.
stepped into the fatal berth number
one, and paid no heed to the dangling
ribbons. Mallory, eager to restore
himself to her love by loving her dog.
crowded closer to her side, making a
hypocritical ado over the pup.
Everybody was popping his or her
face out to learn the cause of such
clamor. Among the bodiless heads
suspended along the curtains. like
Dyak trophies, appeared the great
mask of Little Jimmie Wellington. He
had been unable to sleep for mourn
ing the wanton waste of that lovely
rice-trap.
When he peered forth, his eyes
hardly believed themselves. The
elusive bride and groom were actu-
ally in the trap-the hen pheasant
and the chanticleer. But the net did
not fall. He waited to see them sit
down, and spring the internal ma
chine. But they would not sit.
In fact, Marjorie was muttering to
Harry-tenderly, now, since he had
won her back by his efforts to con-
sole Snoozleums--she was muttering
tenderly:
we must not be seen together.
honey. Go away, I'll see you in the
morning"
And Mallory was saying with bit
terest resignation: Good night-my
friend"
And they We're shaking hands! This
Incredible bridal couple was shaking
hands with Notwithstanding!
Then Wellington determined to do at
least his duty by the sacred rites.
The gaping passengers saw what
was probably the largest pair of pa
lamas in Chicago They saw Little
smothering back his giggIes
Ike a schoolboy, tiptoe from his
berth, enter the next berth, brushing
the porter aside climb on the seat.
and clutch the ribbon that pulled the
stopper from the trap.
Down upon the unsuspecting elop-
ers came this miraculous cloudburst
Of ironical rice, and with it came Lit
tie Jimmie Wellington, who lost what
little balance he had, and catapulted
into their midst like the offspring OF
an iceberg.
1t was at this moment that Mrs.
wellington, hearing the loud cries of
The panic-stricken Marjorie, rushed
rom the Women's Room, absent-mind-
eddy combing totally detached Sec
ton of her hair. She recognized IA
niliar pyjamas waving in air, and
with one faint gasp: "Jimmie on this
,rain!" she swooned away. She would
nave fallen, but seeing that no one
paid any attention to her, she recov-
cred consciousness on her own hook,
md vanished into her berth, to medi-
ate on the why's and wherefores of
Ter husbands presence in this car.
DR.. Temple in a nightgown and
rousers; Roger Ashton, in a collar
ess estate, and the porter, managed
o extricate Mr.. Wellington from his
light, and stow him away. though it
vas like putting a whale to bed
Mallory, seeing that Marjorie had
led, vented his wild rage against fate
n general, and rice traps in particu-
ar, by tearing the bridal bungalow to
'ieces, and then he stalked into the |
moking room, where Ira Lathrop,
homeless and dispossessed. was sound |
sleep, with his feet in the chair.
He was dreaming that he was a
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