The Prescott daily news., 1912-04-11
luscious eyes and a soulful smile asks

"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 semi-audible 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 shuf- fled on into the car
 He had hardly left the little space before the stateroom when a hand some man with luscious eyes, but without any smile at all. came sink ing along the corridor and tapped cautiously on the door Silence alone answered him at first, then when he had rapped again, he heard muf- fled:
 Go away I'm not in
 He put his lips close and softly called: Edith"
 At this Sesame the door opened trife, but when he tried to enter, hand thrust him back and voice again warned him off. You musn't come in
 But I'm your husband"
 That's just why you mustn't come in" The door opened a little wider to give him a view of a down-cast beauty moaning:
 "Ch Arthur, I'm so afraid
 "Afraid?" he sniffed With your husband here?"
 That's the trouble, Arthur What gether?"
 But she and are divorced"
 Tn some states, yes-but other states don't acknowledge the divorce. That former wife of yours is a tiend 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"
 l eS, ana no better.
 The angels looking on might have judged from the ready tempers of the newly married and not entirely un- 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 Ip1yo al {- y1-ftb on appeasing caress and a tender ap- peal: But let's not start our honey moon with a quarrel"
 His partial wife returned the caress and tried to explain: I'm not quar- rellng with you, dear heart, but with the horrid divorce laws. Why, oh, why did we ever interfere with -them?"
 He made brave effort with: We ended two unhappy marriages, Edith, to make one happy one"
 But I'm so unhappy, Arthur, and so afraid
 He seemed a trihe afraid himself and his gaze was askance as he urged: But the tratn will start soon, Edith-and then we shall be safe"
 Mrs Fosdick had a genius for in- venting unpleasant possibilities But what if your former wife or my for mer husband should nave detective on board?"
 "A detective?-poof." He snapped his fingers in bravado. You are with your husband. aren't you?"
 Tn Illinois, yes," she admitted very dolefully. But when We come we come to Nebraska, you're a biga- mist, and when we come to Wyoming, we're not married at all.'
 It was certainly a tangled web they had woven. but a ray of light shot through it 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 hung back.
 "On one condition, Arthur-that you leave me as soon as we cross the Iowa state line, and not come back a till we get to Utah. Remember, the Iowa state line!"
 ''Oh, all right" he smiled. And see ing the porter, beckoned him close and asked with careless indifference: "Oh, porter, what time do we reach the Iowa state liner"
 TWO fifty-fve in the mawning, sah."