Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-06-13


Her neither lip tremblel and her
eyes were filmed, bu, they were brave.
and her voice was so tender that Il
Vooed his mind from his watch. He
gazed at her. and found her so dear,
30 devoted and so pitiflly exquisite.
that be was almost overcome by an
impulse 20 gather her into his arms
there and then. Indifferent to the i'm
mediate passengers or TO his far-on
military superiors An hour ago they
were young lovers IN all the lit and
thrill Of elopement. She had chung 10
him in the cleaning OF their taXicab,
as II sped like genie at their within
TO the place where the minister
would unite their hands and raise his
own in blessing Thence the new
husband would have carried the new
wife away. his very own, soul and
body. duty and beauty. Then, an,
then in their minds the future was an
unwaning honeymoon, the journey
across the continent, a stroll along a
lovers lane, the Pacific ocean a gar
den lake and the Philippines a chain
Of Fortunate Isles decreed especially
for their Eden. And then the taxi
cab encountered a lamppost They
thought they had merely wrecked a
motor car-and 10, they had wrecked
q Paradise.
The railroad ceased TO be a lovers
lane and became a lingering torment;
the ocean was a weltering Sahara,
and the Philippines a Dry Tortugas
of exile
Mallory realized for the first time
what heavy burdens he had taken on
with his shoulder straps; what dis
mai life Of restrictions and hardships
an officers life is bound TO be.
Perhaps young Mr.. Montague ana
young Miss Capulet, instead OF wall
ting. NO, that is not the lark whose
notes do beat the vaulty heaven SO
high above our heads would have
done no better than Mr. Mallory and
Miss Newton. In any case, the best
these two could squeeze out was:
It's Just too bad, honey"
But guess 1t can't be helped,
dear"
Its = mean old world. isn't it7"
Awful"
And then they must pile out into
the street again so lost in woe that
they did not know how they were
trampled or elbowed. Mariorie's de-
SPAR was so complete that II paralyZe1
instinct. She forgot Snoozleums!
thoughtful passenger ran out ana
tossed the basket into Mallorys arms
even as the car moved on.
Fortune relented a moment and
they found a taxicab waiting where
they had expected 10 find IT. once
more they were cosy in the flying
twilight, but their grief was their
only baggage, and the clasp Of their
hands talked all the talk there was
Anxiety within anxiety tormente1
them and they feared another wreck
But as they swooped down upon the
station, a kind-faced tower clocH
beamed the reinsurance that they
had three minutes 20 spare.
The taxicab drew up and halted
but they did not get out. They were
kissing goodbyes, fervidly and nu
merously, while a griuning station
porter winked at the winking chaut
feur.
Marjorie simply could not have
done with farewells.
~Tll 90 TO the gate with you" she
said.
he told the chauffeur 20 wait anC
take the young lady home. The lieu
tenant looked so honest and the CIR
80 sad that the chauffeur simply
touched his cap, though it was no
hiB custom to allow strange fares q
vAnish into crowded stations, leavinI
Behind nothing more negotiable thar
instructions 10 wait.