The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-08-26
Their Narrow
Escape


When she heard his key turn IN
the lock the bride Of only few weeks
made a rush for her husband and
clasped his arm tragically a. he en-.
tered the door.
s"Oh!" she cried. I'm 80 glad you've
come! I've been perfectly miserable
thinking about it all by myself"
whats happened?" asked her hus
band. anxiously.
"Oh. Harry!" she went on. II was
putting up the dining room curtains
and was just as happy-and all Of a
sudden 1t occurred to me that instead
Of both Of us having lived in Chicago
all our lives where we simply couldn't
help meeting we might just as easily
have been born in different places!
Suppose-suppose you had always
lived here, but that had been born
in Australia or India! Why. l cried
for an hour!"
"Nonsense!" said her husband.
What difference would it have
nader"
"You haven't any imagination" she
retorted. Wed never have met.
that's the difference it would have
made! Why. tried and tried to re-
member and couldn't think of a
single soul ! Enew ever going to
Australia or coming from there-it
might just as well be on another
planet!"
"You mustn't be foolish. darling.
said her husband You weren't born
there. SO there's nothing to worry
about"
THAT isn't the point" said the
bride. Tell me this minute. Harry.
whether you think If had lived there
we would have met? l never could
have loved any one but you and you
couldn't have cared for any one but
me, could you? Oh. do you think you
would have thought you were In love
with another If"
Now, Mabel" said her husband
after he had taken a deep breath. Il
don't see what you are driving at!
You are evading the po1nt!" she
declared. "You can't honestly say
No to my question and you are try
ing to distract me! 1t is perfectly
awful to be married only six weeks
and then find your husband doesn't
truly care for you. though ! suppose
If I'd had any sense I'd have known
that in the first place-only women
are such Stiles they believe everything
that's told them! don't see how
am to blame for having trusted you,
for you certainly acted as though you
)-l-loved me and
stop, stop!" cried her husband
What on earths the trouble. any
how? Push Australia off the mar
aud let's have peace and sunshine
again!"
Aunt Sarah said I'd be unh-h-happy
If MN married you," wept the bride
"She said your sort of chin always
wrecked ones l-llife! But believed
in you. didn't think you were the
sort of man who could fall in love
with a different girl every five min
, utes.''
We'll, I'm mott" stormed her exas
perated husband 4 don't know wha
you're talking about, Mabel"
But, if I'd lived in Australia" sh'
persisted, how could you have helpet
liking some one else? You wouldn'
have seen me, you know It woult
have been just the same aa though
never existed"
We'll, wouldn't have existe
either. ne declared You wouldn'
have known or cared a copper cen
about ore Harry Sylvester Howard
Chicago, U. S A. You'd have bee
: luite. happy adoring some man owe
: on your side Of the globe!"
Harry she cried in tones whic
dmpped tragedy DO you mean t
say you nave such poor idea Of m
affection fol you as that? Oh, thi
I is the iast straw? To have you dout
/ mel II is worse than discovering ho'
{ little you really care for me! NJ
= heart is broken AS though any on
y ever could have made the slightes
! impression on my affection except yo
Il don't understand how you IAN b
! so brutal"
u give it up" said her husban,
>. q seem to pick out all thetwron
!, things TO say I'm trying TO comfoI
you and you call ne names, and q
for Australia never expect TO see
and I'm sure | don't want to an
what It's got TO do with you and n
q Is more than can discover"
! That's because you're a man
Ie said the bride Men never do unde
i stand things that mean so much to
II woman! They are perfectly dense
Tell me-are YOU sdre you care MOI
N for me than you ever could for an
ID one else?"
PIT Didn't marry you?" almo
shouted Ter husband Then he took
d long breath "Of course do! 10,
ii you madly devotedly, intensely. di
IT tractedIy twenty hours In the day
~ Honest,"
~ Well why didn't you say so