The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-05-15

"The hideous kind that men call
handsome"
"Oh, amt they hideous, them hand.
some women?"
well, II such a woman asks for
Mrs. Fosdick-she's my husbands
first wife-but of course that doesn't
interest you"
"No'm-yes'm."
III she comes-tell her-tell her
oh, what shall we tell herr
The porter rubbed his thick skull {:
"Lemme see-we might say you-I
tell you what Wen tell her: we'll tell
her you took the train for New York
and If she runs mighty fast she can
just about ketch IT,"
Fine, fine!" And she rewarded
his genius with another coin. And
porter" He had not budged. "Por.
ter, IL a very handsome man with
luscious eyes and soulful smile asks
for me-"
'Tll th'ow him off the train!"
"Oh, no-no!-that's my husband
my present husband You may let
him in. Now is 1t all perfectly clear,
porter?"
"Oh, yassum, clear as clear" Thus
guaranteed she entered the stateroom,
leaving the porter alone with his prob
lem. He tried to work It out In a
semiaudible humble: "Lemme see!
If your present husbands absent wife
gifts on bode disguised as a handsome
hideous woman I'm to throw him
her-off the train and let her-him--
come in-oh, yassum, you may rely on
me-" He bowed and held out his
hand. But she was gone. He shut
fled on into the car.
He had hardly left the little space
before the stateroom when hand
some man with luscious eyes, but
without any smile at all, came stink
ing along the corridor and tapped
cautiously on the door. Silence alone
answered him at first, then when he
had raped again, he heard a muf-
fled:
go away. I'm not in"
He put his lips close and softly
called: Edith"
At this Sesame the door opened a
trifle, but when he tried to enter, a
hand thrust him back and voice
again warned him off, you mustn't
come in"
"But I'm your husband"
That's just why you mustn't come
in" The door opened little wider
to give him view Of a down-cast
beauty moaning:
"Oh, Arthur, I'm so afraid"
"Afraid?" he shifted. with your
husband here?"
That's the trouble, Arthur. What
If your former wife should find us to-
gether?"
"But she and / are divorced"
"In some states, yes-but other
states don't acknowledge the divorce
That former wife of yours Is fiend
to pursue us this way"
"She's no worse than your former
husband. He's pursuing us, too. My
divorce was as good as yours, my
DEAR"
YES, and no better"
The angels looking on might have
Judged from the ready tempers of the
newly married and not entirely I'M
married twain that their new alliance
promised to be as exciting as their
previous estates. Perhaps the man
subtly felt the presence of those eter-
nal eavesdroppers, for he tried to end
the love-duel in the corridor with an
appeasing caress and a tender ap-
peal: "But let's not start our honey
moon with quarrel"
His partial wife returned the caress
and tried to explain: "I'm not quar-
reling with you, dear heart, but with
the horrid divorce laws. Why, oh,
why did we ever interfere with
them?"
He made a brave effort with: 1--WE
ended two unhappy marriages, Edith,
to make one happy one"
"But I'm so unhappy, Arthur, and
so afraid"
He seemed a trifle afraid himself
and his gaze was askance as he
urged: "But the train will start soon
Edith-and then we shall be SAFE"
Mrs. Fosdick had genius for in.
venting unpleasant possibilities. but
what If your former wife or my for
mer husband should nave a detective
on board"
"a detective?-poof!" He snapped
his fingers In bravado. "You are with
your husband, aren't your"
"In Illinois. yes." she admitted
very dolefully. But when We come
to Iowa, I'm a bigamist, and when
we come to Nebraska, you're biga
mist. and when we come to Wyoming
we're not married at ALL"
1t was certainly tangled web they
had woven, but ray OF light shot
through 1t into his bewildered soul
'But we're all right in Utah. Come,
dearest"
He took her by the elbow to escort
her into their sanctuary, but still she
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