Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-07-09

| boards train In maudlin condition. Later
Mrs. Jimmie appears.
CHAPTER v-she IL also bound for
Reno with same object. Likewise Mrs.
sammy Whitcomb.
CHAPTER vI.-Latter blames Mrs.
| Jimmie for her marital troubles. Class
mates of Mallory decorate bridal berth.
CHAPTER vII.-Rev. and Mrs. Temple
start on q vacation. They decide to cut
loose and Temple removes evidence OF his
calling.
| CHAPTER v111-MarJorie decides to
let Mallory proceed alone, but train
starts while they are lost in farewell.
CHAPTER TX.
All Aboard!
The starting Of the train surprised
the ironical decorators in the last
stages of their work. Their smiles
died out in a sudden shame, as II
came over them that the joke had re.
coiled on their own heads. They had
done their best to carry out the time.
honored rite OF making . newly mar
tied couple as miserable as possible
and the newly married couple had
failed to do its share.
The two lieutenants glared at each
other In mutual contempt. They had
studied much at West Point about
ambushes, and how to avoid them.
Could Mallory have escaped the pit
they had digged for him? They
looked at their handiwork In disgust.
The cosy-corner effect of white rib
bons and orange flowers, gracefully
masking the concealed rice-trap, had
,eemed the wittiest thing ever de-
vised. Now it looked the silliest.
The other passengers were equally
downcast. Meanwhile the two lovers
In the corridor were kissing good
byes as II they were hoping to store
up honey enough to sustain their
hearts for . three years. fast. And
the porter was studying them with
perplexity.
He was used, however, to waking
people out of dreamland, and he be-
gan to fear that II he were discovered
spying on the lovers. he might SUI
fer. So he coughed discreetly three
or four times.
Since the increasing racket Of the
train made no effect on tho two hearts
beating as one. the small matter Of .
cough was as nothing.
Finally the porter was compelled to
reach forward and tap Mallory's arm,
and stutter:
"'Scuse me, but co-could git b-by?"
Tho embrace was united, and the
lovers stared at him with dazed,
Where.am-I? look. Marjorie was the
nrst to realize what awakened them.
She felt called upon to say something.
20 she said, as carelessly as II she
had not just emerged from q young
Eentleman's arms:
"Oh, porter. how long before the
train starts?"
Grains done started. Missy"
This simple statement struck the
wool from her eyes and the cotton
from her ears, and she was wide
enough awake when she cried: "Oh,
stop it-stop it,"
That's mon l can do, Missy" the
porter expostulated:
Then I'll jump on" Marjorie
vowed, making dash for the door.
But the porter filled the narrow
path, and waved her back.
"Vestibule's done locked up
trains going lickety.split." Feeling
that he had safely checkmated any
rashness. the porter squeezed past
tho dumbfounded pair. and went to
change his blue blouse for the white
coat Of his chambermaidenly duties.
Mallory's first wondering thought was
q rapturous feeling that circum.
/ stances had forced his dream into q
reality. He thrilled with triumph:
you've got to go with me now"
"Yes-I've got to 60" Marjorie az
scented meekly; then, sublimely. "lta
fate. Nsmet!"
They clutched each other again in
q fiercely blissful hug. Marjorie came
back to earth with . bump: Are
you really sure there's . minister on
board?"
pretty sure" said Mallory, sober
ing tribe.
"But you said you were sure?"
"Well. when you say you're sure
that means you're not quito sure"
It was not an entirely satisfactory
justification, and Marjorie began to
quake with alarm: Suppose there
shouldn't BET"
"Oh, then" Mallory answered care
lessly, there's bound to be one to
morrow
Marjorie realized at once the enor
NOUS abyss between then and the
morrow, and she gasped: Tomorrow!
And no chaperon! Oh. Ill jump Out
Of the window"
Mallory could prevent that. but
when she pleaded, what shall we
do?" he had no solution to ofer
Again 1t was she who received the
first inspiration.
II have It," she beamed.
"Yes. Marjorie?" he assented. du
biously.
Wen pretend not to be married Al
! all"
He seized the rescuing ladder:
''That's It'll Not married-Just
friends"
"TM We can get married"