The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-04-10

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YES & W0aid. honey bul IL
doe7n leem probable. ftere are
thonsauds Of ministers q Chicago.
IAe could neyer md oarsS FACT is,
doubt i we ma him ourselves
Her clutch rs htened nll be would
lhage WINGED II be had not been q
l.soidier
What dosEou mean, HaIy
.'WelI. In the first place honey, look
what time II 81 Hardy more than
time to get the train 70 say no hilg
Isot hunting for that preacher and
standing up through . long rigma-
role
Why. Harry Mallory are Won get:
ting ready u Tilt mel,
Indeed I'm not mot for worlds,
honey. hit I've gotyt to get that train,
haven't ~
"Couldntyou walt Overcome train
Just one tiny little tratntg IS
I my own, own honey love. you
know Its impossiblei You must re-
membes that rye already waited over
three trains while you tried to make
up your mind
and you must remember, darling,
that it's mo easy matter for a girl TO
decide to sneak away from home and
be married secretly, and 90 all the
way out to that hideous Manila with
no trousseau and no wedding pres
ents and no anything
y know It isn't, and ! waited pa.
tiently while you got up the courage.
But now there are no more trains. l
shudder to think of this train being
late. We're not due in San Fran
cisco till Thursday evening, and my
transport sails at sunrise Friday morn.
ing. oh, Lord, what II | should miss
that transport! What II should"
"Whatit we should miss the min
ister?" ~
1T begins to look:a great deal like
But, Harry you wouldn't desert
me now-abandon me 10 my fate?"
Well, IT isn't exactly like abandon.
ment, seeing that you, GOULD go homo
to your fatbet and mother ma taxi
cab" 49,
She stared at him in horror.
80 you, don't want me Tor your
wife! You've changed your mind!
You're tired or me aEreads! Only an
hour together; and you're sick OF your
bargaini You're anxious to get rid OF
met YOU
"oh, honey, I want you more than
anything else on earth, but I'm a
soldier, dearie, mere lieutenant IN
the regular army, and I'm the slave
OF the government I've gone through
West Point, and they won't let me re.
sign respectfully and m did, wed
starye. They wouldn't accept my
resignation, but they'd be willing to
courtmartlal me and dismiss me from
the service In disgrace. Then you
wouldn't want TO marry me-and i
shouldn't have anyway Of supporting
you II you did. I only knew one
trade, and that's soldierng"
Don't. calf 1t a trade beloved, it's
| the noblest profession in all the
world, and you're the poblest soldier
that ever was, and in year or two
you'll be the biggest general in the
1 army" M Iit4l
He, could not skoed TO shatter such
a devout illusion, orr quepch the light
OF faith in those beloved and loving
eyes He facility admitted his ability
to be promoted contnapder-in-chief in
year or two. He allowed that gilt
tering possibility to remain, used II
as a basis for argument
Then, dearest, you must help me
Ito do my duty. .S;i5
She clasped his upper arm as II II
were an altar and she an lphigenia
about to be sacrificed TO save the
army. And she murmured with. utter
heroism;
mel"
He squeezed her hand between his
biceps and his ribs and accepted the
offering in a look drenched with graf
itude. Then he said, matter-of-factly:
We'll see how much time we have
when we get to-whateyer the name
of that street is" =
The car jolted and walled on Its
way like an old drifting rocking
chair. The motorman was in no hur
~. The passengers seemed to have
no occasion for haste. Somebody got
on or got OF at almost every corner
and paused for conversation while
the car waited patiently. But eVentu'
ally the conductor put his head in and
drawled:
Hay Here's where you get on
at"
They, fastened to debark and found
themselves in narrow, gaudily'light
ed region where they saw lordly
Observation-Disclosures. profound schol
ar in Chicago streets. He informed
them that the ministers street lay
far back along the path they had
come; they should have taken a car
in the opposite direction. transferred
at some remote center, descended at
some unheard-of street. walked three
blocks one way and four another, and
there they would have been.