Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-10-24

everything IN velvet shadow. Then
the two get married and begin TO
live together in the cold. gray day
light Of realism with undignited
necessities and narrowing situations
az every step, and disillusiou begins
its deadly work.
This young couple was undergoing
all the Inconvenience and temper-ex-
pOsures OF marriage without its
blessed compensations. They prom.
ised TO be well acquainted before they
we're wed. II they still wanted each
other after this ordeal, they were pref
~ well assured that their marriage
would not be failure.
Mallory rejoiced to see that the
hurricane OF Marjorles jealousy had
only whipped up the surface OF her
soul. The great depths we're still
calm and unmoved, and her love for
him was In and OF the depths.
Soon after leaving ogden, the train
entered upon the great bridge across
the Great Salt Lake. The other pas
sCngcrs we're staring at the enormous
engineering masterpiece and the con-
ductor was pointing out that, in or
der TO save forty miles and the cross
ing Of two mountain chains. the rail-
road had devoted four years OF labor
and millions OF dollars to stretching a
thirty-mile bridge across this inland
ocean
But Marjorie and Mallory never no
ticed II. They we're absorbed in eX.
ploriug each others souls, and they
had safely bridged the Great salt
Lake which the first big bitter jeai-
ousy spreads across every matrimo-
NAL route.
They were undisturbcd in their voy.
age, for all the other passengers had
their noses fattened against the win
dow panes OF the other cars-all ex.
cept one couple. gazing each at each
through time-wrinkled eyelids touched
with the magic OF a tardy honeymoon.
For all that Anne and Ira knew.
the Great Salt Lake was a moon
swept lagoon. and the arid mountains
of Nevada which the train went seal
ing, were the very hillsides Of Ar
crCia.
But the other passengers soon came
trooping back into the observation
room. Ira had told them nothing OF
Mallory's confession. In the first
place, he was a man who had learned
to keep a secret, and in the second
place. he had forgotten that such per
sons as Mallory or his Marjorie exist
ed. All the world was summed up in
the fearsomely happy little spinster
who had moved up into his section
the section which had begun its ca
1eer draped in satin ribbons unwit
tingly prophetic.
The communion OF Mallory and
Marjorie under the BENSON OF recon
ciliation was invaded by the jokes oil
the other passengers, unconsciously
ironic.
DR.. Temple chaffed them amiably
You two will have to take a bach
seat now. We've got a new brida
couple to amuse US"
And Mrs. Temple welcomed then
WIN lOu re Olllg Olu Lldl leu lOlho
like US"
The Mallorys were used to the mis-
| understanding. But the misplaced
wittcisms gave them reinsurance
that their secret was safe yet a littl,
while. At their dinner-table, however
and in the long evening that folLoweC
they were haunted by the fact tina
this was their last night on the train
and no minister to be expected.
And now once more the Mallory
regained the star roles in the esteem
OF the audience, for once more the.
quarreled at good-night-hssi time
Once more they required two sec
| tons, while Anne Gattle's berth wa
not even made up. II remained empty
like a deserted nest, for its occupan
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