The Prescott daily news., 1912-04-26
SYNOPSIS.

 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 passengers. Porter has lively time with an Englishman and Ira Lathrop, Yankee business man.
 CHAPTER III-The eiopers have an exciting time getting to the train.
 CHAPTER Iv-~Iitt,e Jimmie" wei iington. bound for Reno to get a divorce. boards train in maudlin condition. Later Mrs. Jimmie appears.
 CHAPTER v.-+she Is also bound for Reno with same object. Likewise Mrs. Sammy Whitoomb.
 CHAPTER V.-Latter planes Mrs. Jimmie for her marital troubles. Class mates of Mallory decorate bridal berth CHAPTER v1L-Rey: and Mrs; Temple loose and Temple removes evidence of his calling.
 CHAPTER VIII-Marjorie decides to let Mallory proceed alone but train starts while they are lost in farewell <, .azsst -S1SSssS t4.a 2SF t1s,- 'e~ -s.o CHAPTER IX-Passengers join Nal lory's classmates in giving couple we'd ding hazing.
 CHAPTER X.-Marjorie Is distracted over their situation.
 CHAPTER XI-Ira I.athrop, woman hating bachelor, discovers an old sweet heart, Anne Cattle. a fellow passenger. CHAPTER XII-Mallory vainly hunts for preacher among the passengers
 CHAPTER xI1I.-Mrs. Wellington hears Little Jimrnie's voice. Later she meets Mrs. Whitoomb.
 CHAPTER XIv.-Mallory reports to Marjorie his failure to find a preacher. CHAPTER Xv.-They decide ts pretend quarrel and Mallory finds a vacant berth
 CHAPTER xvI.-Mrs Jimmie discov- CTS Wellington on the train.
 CHAPTER XvII-Mallory again makes an unsuccessful hunt for preacher.
 We're slowing down though" said Ashton, "she stopsl We're safe. Thank God!" And he collapsed into a chair. Wedgewood collapsed into another, gasping: "Whatevah are we safe from, 1 wondah?"
 The train-crew and various passen- S6IS d6SCtUueu dHu lhC train asking questions. Panic gave way to mystery. Even Dr. Temple came back into the smoking room to finish a precious cigar he had been at work on. He was followed by Little Jimmie, who had not quite reached his wife when the stopping of the train put an end to his excuse for chivalry He was respectfully num- bling:
 Tt would have been such a good shansh to shave my life's wife-I mean my-I don't know what mean" He sank into a chair and ordered a drink; then suddenly remembered his VOW, and with great heroism, rescind- ed the, order.
 Mallory, finding that the train was checked just before he reached the conductor, saw that officials bewil- dered wrath at the stoppage and had fearsome intuition that Marjorie had somehow done the deed. He hur- ried back to the observation room, where he found her charging up and down, still distraught. He paused at safe distance and said:
 The train has stopped, my dear Somebody rang the bell"
 "I guess somebody did." Marjorie answered, with a proud toss of the head. Where's the conductor?'
 He's looking for the fellow that pulled the rope"
 You go tell him to back up-and slowly, too"
 No. thank you!" said Mallory. He was a brave young man, but he was not boarding the conductors of stop ped expresses Already the conduc- tors voice was heard in the smoking room, where he appeared with the rush and roar of a Bashan bull. We'll" he believed, which one Of you guys pulled that roper"
 Tt was nobody here. sir," Dr. Tem- pie meekly explained. The conductor transfixed him with a baleful glare: 'I wouldn't believe a gambler on oath. l bet you did it."
 T assure you, sir," Wedgewood in- terposed, he didn't touch it. I was heah.'
 The conductor waved him aside and charged into the observation room, followed by all the passengers in an awe-struck rabble. Here, too, the conductor thundered: Who pulled that rope? Speak up somebody"
 Mallory was about to sacrifice him. self to save Marjorie. but she met the ---- >-.--...