The Prescott daily news., 1912-04-17

jorie Newton decide to elope, but wreck of taXicab prevents their seeing minister on the way to the train
 CHAPTER U.-Transcontinental train is taking on passengers. Porter has a lively time with an Englshman and Ira Lathrop, a Yankee business man.
 CHAPTER III.-The elopers have an exciting time getting to the train.
 CHAPTER Iv.-''Iittle Jimmie" Vel lington bound for Reno to get divorce. boards train in maudlin condition. Later Mrs. Jimmie appears.
 CHAPTER V.-She is also bound for Reno with same object. Likewise Mrs. Sammy Whitcomb.
 CHAPTER VT.-Latter planes Mrs. Jimmie for her marital troubles. Class mates of Mallory decorate bridal berth. CHAPTER vII-Rev. and Mrs Temple start on a vacation They decide to cut loose and Temple removes evidence of his calling.
 CHAPTER VIII.-Mariore decides to let Mallory proceed alone but train starts while they are lost in farewell
 CHAPTER IX-Passengers join Nal lory's classmates in giving couple we'd ding hazing.
 NI N. over their situation.
 CHAPTER XL-Ira Lathrop woman hating bachelor. discovers an old sweet heart, Anne Cattle, a fellow passenger. CHAPTER XII-MaIlory vainly hunts for preacher among the passengers.
 CHAPTER XIII-Mrs. Wellington hears Little Jimmie's voice. Later she meets Mrs. Whitcomb.
 CHAPTER XIV-Mallory reports to Marjorie his failure to find a preacher.
 CHAPTER Xv.-They decide ts pretend quarrel and Mallory finds a vacant bertA.
 CHAPTER XvI-Mrs. Jimmie discov- CTS Wellington on the train.
 CHAPTER XvII.-Marory again makes an unsuccessful hunt for preacher.
 The spickest and spannest of lieu tenants soon realized that he was re- duced to wearing yesterdays linen as well as yesterdays beard. This was intolerable. A brave man can endure heartbreaks, loss of love, honor and place. but a neat man cannot abide the traces of time in his toilet. Lieu tenant Mallory had seen rough serv- Ice in camp and on long hikes, when he gloried in mud and disorder, and he was to see campaigns in the Phil ippines, when he should not take off his shoes or his uniform for three days at time. But that was the field, and this car was drawing room
 In this crisis in his affairs, Little Jimmie Wellington waddled into the mems room, 1oundering about with every lurch of the train, like a cannon loose in the hold of a ship. He fum- bled with the handles on a basin, and made a crazy toilet, trying to find some abatement of his fever by filling a glass at the ice-water tank and emptying it over his head.
 These drastic measures restored him tc some sort of coherency, and Mallory appealed to him for help in the matter of linen. Wellington eff fusively offered him everything he had. and Mallory selected from his store half a dozen collars, any one of which would have gone round his neck neaFiy lWlCe.
 Wellington also proffered his safety razor. and made him a present of virgin wafer of steel for his very own.
 With this assistance, Mallory was enabled to make himself fairly pre- sentable. When he returned to his seat, the three curtained rooms had been whisked away by the porter. There was no place now to hide from the passengers.
 He sat down facing the feminine end of the car, watching for Marjorie. The passengers were watching for her, too, hoping to learn what un- heard-of incident could have pro- voked the quarrel that separated a bride and groom at this time, of al! times.
 To the general bewilderment, when Marjorie appeared, Mallory and she rushed together and clasped hands with an ardor that suggested a desire for even more ardent greeting. The passengers almost sprained their ears to hear how they would make up such a dreadful feud. But all they heard was: We'll have to hurry, Marjorie, if We want to get any breakfast
 "All right, honey. Come along"
 Then the inscrutable couple scur- ried up the aisle, and disappeared in the corridor, leaving behind them a mighty riddle. They kissed in the