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CHAPTER X.
Excess Baggage,

Never was young soldier 80
stumped by problem in tactics as
Lieutenant Harry Mallory, safely
aboard his train, and not daring to
leave it, yet hopoiessly unaware OF
how he was to dispose Of his lovely
but unlabelled baggage
Hudson and Shaw had erected
number one, had created such commo-
ton, and departed in such confusion,
that there had been no opportunity to
proclaim that he and Marjorie were
mot married-just friends"
And now the passengers had ac-
cepted them as that enormous fund OF
amusement to any train, newly we'd
ded pair. To explain the mistake
would have been difficult, even among
friends. But among strangers-well,
perhaps a wiser and colder brain
than Harry Mallory's could have
stood there and delivered brief ora
ton restoring truth to her pedestal
But Mallory was in no condition for
such q stole delivery.
He mopped his brow In agony, lost
in a blizzard of bewilderment. He
drifted back toward Marjorie, half to
protect and half for companionship.
He found Mrs. Temple cuddling her
close and mothering her as II she
were baby instead OF bride.
Ibid the poor child run away and
get married?"
Marjories frantic "Boo-hoo-hoo'
might have meant anything. Mrs.
Temple took 1t for assent, and MUIR
INJURED with glowing "reminiscences:
"Just the way Doctor Temple and 1
did"
She could not see the leaping flash
of wild hope that lighted up Mallory's
face. She only heard his voice across
her shoulder:
doctor? Doctor Temple? Is your
husband a reverend doctor?"
"A reverend doctor?" the little old
lady repeated weakly.
"Yes-a-a preacher?"
The poor old congregation-weary
soul was abruptly confronted with the
ruination of all the delight In her lit
tie escapade with her pulpit-fagged
husband. II she had ever dreamed
that the girl who was weeping In her
arms was weeping from any other
fright than the usual fright OF young
brides, fresh from the preachers ben
ediction, she would have cast every
other consideration aside, and told
the truth.
But her husbands last behest be-
fore he left her had been to keep
their precious pretend-secret. She
felt-just then-that woman's first
duty is to obey her husband. Besides,
what business was 1t of this young
husbands what her old husbands
business was? Before she had fairly
begun to debate her duty, almost auto
matica,ly, with the instantaneous In
stinct of self-protection, her lips mad
uttered the denial:
"Oh-he's-just a-plain doctor.
There he is now"
Mallory cast one miserable glance
down the aisle at DR.. Temple coming
back from the smoking room. AS the
old man paused to stare at the bridal
berth, whose preparation he had not
seen, he was just enough befuddled
hv his first cigar for thirty years to
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dog from the prison, tucked MIN un-
der her arm, and tried to compose
her bridal face into merely friendly
countenance before they entered the
car. But she must pause for one more
kiss, one more OF those bitter-sweet
good-byes. And Mallory was nothing
loath.
Hudson and Shaw were still glumly
perplexed, when the porter returned
In his white jacket.
II bet they missed the train; all
this work for nothing" Hudson grum-
bled. But Shaw, seeing the porter,
caught CLEAN Of hope, and asked
anxiously:
Say, porter. have you seen any
thing anywhere that looks like fresh
ly married pair?"
WELL" and the porter rubbed his
eyes with the back Of his hand as he
chuckled, well, they's a mighty low
in couple out theah In the corridor"
"That's them-thsy-itI"
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look trlle tlpsy. Tne motion oI the
train and the rakish tilt of his un-
wonted crimson tie confirmed the
suspicion and annihilated Mallory's
newborn hope, that perhaps repentant
fate had dropped parson at their
very feet.
He sank into the seat opposite
Marjorie, who gave him one terrified
glance, and burst into fresh sobs:
Oh-oh-boo-hoo-Im SO unhap-
happy"
Perhaps Mrs. Temple was little
miffed at the couple that had led her
astray and opened her own honey
moon with wanton flb. In any case,
the best consolation she could offer
Marjorie was perfunctory pat. and a
cynicism:
There, there, dear! You don't
know what real unhappiness is yet.
Wait till you've been married
WHILE"
And then she noted startling lack
of completeness in the brides hand.
"Why-my dear!-where's your
wedding ring?"
With what he considered great
presence of mind, Mallory explained:
"It-it slipped off-I-I picked 1t up.
I have 1t here" And he took the
little gold band from his waistcoat
and tried to jam it on Marjorie's right
thumb.
mot on the thumb" Mrs. Temple
cried. Don't you know?'
"You see, it's my first marriage"
"You poor boy-this finger!" AnG
Mrs. Temple, raising Marjorie's limp
hand, selected the proper digit. and
held 1t forward, while Mallory pressed
the fatal circlet home.
And then Mrs. Temple, having com.
pleted their installation as man and
wife, utterly confounded their con-
fusion by her final effort at comfort:
"Well, my dears, I'll go back to my
seat, and leave you alone with your
dear husband"
"My dear what?" Marjorie mumbled
namely, and began to snifile again.
Whereupon Mrs. Temple resigned her
to Mallory, and consigned her to fate
with consoling platitude:
Cheer up, my dear, you'll be all
right in the morning"
Marjorie and Mallory's eyes met in
one wild clash, and then both stared
into the window, and did not notice
that the shades were down.
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Instantly everything was alive and
in action. 1t was as If bugle had
shrilled In detected camp.
Get ready!" Shaw commanded.
Here's rice for everybody
Everybody take an old shoe," said
Hudson. You can't miss in this mar
row car"
There's kazoo for eyery0re, too,"
said Shaw, as the outstretched hands
were equipped with wedding amrluni-
tion. do you know the Wedding
March'?"
81 ought to by this time." said Mrs.
Whitcomb.
Right into the tangle of prepare.
tion, old Ira Lathrop stalked on his
way back to his seat to get more
cigars.
Have some rice for the bridal
coupler said Ashton, Offering him OF
his own double-handful.
But Lathrop brushed him aside
with romance-hater's growl
Watch out for your head, then,"
cried Hudson, and Lathrop ducked
just too late to escape neck-tilling,
hair-filling shower. An old shoe took
him clip abaft the ear, and the old
woman-hater dropped raging into the
same berth where the spinster, Anne
Cattle, was trying to dodge the same
downpour.
Still there was enough of the
shrapnel left to overwhelm the two
young friends" who marched into
the aisle, trying to look Indifferent
and prepared for nothing on earth
less than for wedding charivarl.
Mallory should have done better
than to entrust his plans to fellows
like Hudson and Shaw, whom he had
known at West Point Tor diabolically
joyous hazers and practical jokers.
Even as he sputtered rice and WINGED
from the impact of flying footgear,
he was cursing himself as a double
dyed idiot for asking such men to en-
gage his berth for him. He had a
sudden instinct that they had doubt
less bedecked his trunk and Mar
1ories with white satin furbelows and
ludicrous labels. But he could not
shelter himself from the white sleet
and the black thumps. He could
hardly shelter Marjorie, who covered
behind him and shrieked even loud
er than the romping tormentors.
When the assailants had exhausted
the rice and shoes, they charged down
the aisle for the privilege Of kissing
the bride. Mallory was dragged and
bunted and shunted here and there,
and he had to fight his way back to
Marjorie with might and main. lie
was tugging and striking like demon,
and yelling, Stop it. stop it,"
Hudson took his punishment with
uproarious good nature, laughing:
"Oh, shut up or We'll kiss you!"
But Shaw was scrubbing his wry
lips with seasick wall OF:
Wow! | think | kissed the dog"
There was, OF necessity, some pause
for breath, and the combatants draped
themselves Imply about the seats.
Mallory glared at the twin Benedict
Arnoids and demanded:
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CHAPTER XII.
A Chance Encounter.

While Mrs. Temple was conflding to
her husband that the agitated couple
in the next seat had just come from
wedding-factory, and had got on
while he was lost in tobacco land, the
people in the seat on the other side
Of them were engaged in little
drama of their own.
Ira Lathrop, known to all who knew
him as woman-hating snapping-tur-
tie, was so busily engaged trying to
drag the farthest invading rice grains
out of the back of his neck, that he
was late in realizing his whereabouts.
When he raised his head, he found
that he had crowded into seat with
an uncomfortable looking woman. who
crowded against the window with old
maidenly timidity.
He felt some apology to be neces-
sary, and he snarled: "Disgusting
things, these weddings!" After he
heard this, 1t did not sound entirely
felicitous. so he grudgingly ventured:
Excuse me-you married?"
She denied the soft impeachment
so heartily that he softened little:
You're q sensible woman. ! guess
you and l are the only sensible peo-
pie on this train"
'It-seems-so," she giggled. It
was the first time her spinstership
had been taken as material for COM
pliment Something in the girlish
giggle and the strangely young smile
that swept twenty years from her
face and belied the silver lines in
her hair, seemed to catch the old
bachelors attention. He stared at her
so f1ercely that she looked about for
way to escape. Then curiously
anxious, almost hungry, look soft
ened his leonine jowls into a boyish
eagerness, and his growl became
sort of gruff purr:
Say, you look something like an
old weetheart-er-frien mine-
Were you ever In Brattleboro, VII"
A flush warmed her cheek, and q
sense OF home warmed her prim
speech, as she confessed:
II came from there originally"
80 did l." said Ira Lathrop, lean
ing closer, and beaming like big
sun: 81 don't suppose you remember
Ira Lathrop?"
The old maid stared at the bachelor
as If she were trying to see the boy
she had known, through the mask that
time had modelled on his face. And
then she was a girl again, and her
voice chimed as she cried:
"Why, Ira!-Mr. Lathrop!-is 1t
you?" 4
She gave him her hand-both her
hands, and he smothered them IN one
big paw and laid the other on for
extra warmth, as he nodded his saw
age head and roared as gentle as
sucking dove:
"Well, welll Annie-Anne-Miss
Gattle What do you think of that?"
They gossiped across the chasm Of
OF years about people and things, ana
knew nothing of the excitement so
close to them, saw nothing Of Chicago
slipping back into the distance, with
its many lights shooting across the
windows like hurled torches.
Suddenly a twinge of ancient 5eal
ousy shot through the mans heart,
recurring to old emotions.
$50 you're not married, Annie.
Whatever became of that fellow who
used to hang round you all the
timer
"Charlie Selhy?' She blrshed ct the
name, and thrilled at the luxury OF
meeting jealousy. "Oh, he entered
the church. He's minister out in
Ogden, Utah."
To Be Continued
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Are you two thugs going to San
Francisco with me?"
Don't worry" smiled Hudson,
we're only going as far as Kedzie
avenue, just to start the honeymoon
properly"
If either Of the elopers had been
calmer, the solution of the problem
would have been simple. Marjorie
could get off at this suburban station
and drive home from there. But their
wits were like pied type, and they
were further jumbled, when Shaw
broke in with a sudden: Come, see
the little dove-cote We fixed for you."
Before they knew 1t, they were both
hailed along the aisle to the white
satin atrocity. Love in a bungalow"
said Hudson. "Sit down-make your
selves perfectly at home"
"No-never-oh, oh, OH" cried Mar
jorie, darting away and throwing
herself into the first empty seat-lra
Lathrop's berth. Mallory followed to
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first to realize what awakened them.
She felt called upon to say something.
SO she said, as carelessly as If she
had not just emerged from young
gentleman's arms:
"Oh, porter, how long before the
train starts?"
"Train's done started, Missy"
This simple statement struck the
wool from her eyes and the cotton
from her ears, and she was wide
enough awake when she cried: "Oh.
stop it--stop it,"
That's mon l can do, Missy" the
porter expostulated.
Then I'll jump off," Marjorie
vowed. making a dasn for the door.
But the porter filled the narrow
path, and waved her back.
"Vestibule's done locked UP
trains going lickety-split." Feeling
that he had safely checkmated any
rashness, the porter squeezed past
the dumbfounded pair, and went to
change his blue blouse for the white
coat of his chambermaidenly duties.
Mallory's first wondering thought was
rapturous feeling that circum.
stances had forced his dream into a
reality. He thrilled with triumph:
you've got to 60 with me now"
"Yes-Ive got to co." Marjorie as
sented meekly: then, sublimely. Its
fate. Kismet!"
They clutched each other again in
a flercely bissful hug. Marjorie came
back to earth with bump: Are
you really sure there's minister on
board"
pretty sure" said Mallory, sober
Ing trife.
but you said you were sure?"
well. when you say you're sure.
that means you're not quite sure"
1t was not an entirely satisfactory
justification, and Marjorie began to
quake with alarm: Suppose there
shouldn't be?"
"Oh, then" Mallory answered care
lessly, there's bound to be one to-
morrow"
Marjorie realized at once the enor.
nous abyss between then and the
morrow, and she gasped: Tomorrow!
And no chaperon! Oh. I'll Jump out
of the window"
Mallory could prevent that. but
when she pleaded. What shall We
do?" he had no solution to offer.
Again It was she who received the
first inspiration.
II have It," she beamed.
"Yes, Marjorie?" he assented, du.
biously.
wen pretend not to be married at
ALL"
He seized the rescuing ladder:
That's It'll Not married-just
friends"
It'll we can get married."
Yes, and then we can stop being
friends"
my love-my friend!" They en-
braced in most unfriendly manner.
An impatient yelp from the neg
lected dog basket awoke them.
"Oh. Lord, we've brought Snoozle-
ums."
"Of course We. have" She took the
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don't catch the transport. III be court.
martialed. II this train Is late. I'm
lost. II you really loved me you'd
come along with me-"
Her very eyes gasped at this as
founding proposal.
"Why. Harry Mallory. you know it's
impossible"
Like a sort of benevolent Satan, he
laid the ground for his abduction:
you'll leave me, then, to spend three
years without you-out among those
Manila women"
She shook her head in terror at
this vision. 1T would be too horrible
for words to have you marry one OF
those mahogany sirens"
He held out the apple. Better come
along. them"
But how can l? We're not mar
ried."
lie answered airily: ".Oh, I'm sure
there's minister on poard."
But 1t would be too awful to be
married with all the passengers gawk.
ing. No, couldn't face 1t. Good
bye, honey"
She turned away. but he caught her
arm: Don't you love me"
ITO distraction. I'll wait for you.
too"
Three years is q long wait"
"But I'll wait. II you will"
With such devotion he could not
tamper. 1t was too beautiful to risk
or endanger or besmirch with any
danger of scandal. He gave up his
fantastic project and gathered her In.
to his arms, crowded her into his very
soul, as he vowed: "Ill wait for you
forever and ever and ever"
Her arms swept around his neck.
and she gave herself up as an exile
from happiness, prisoner OF far
off love:
Goodbye, my husband-to-be.
Goodbye my wife-that-was-to-have-
been and will l-be-maybe."
Goodbye"
Goodbye"
Goodbye"
Goodbye"
II must Co."
Yes, you must"
"One last kiss"
"One more-one long last kiss"
And there, entwined in each others
arms. with lips welded and eyelids
clinched, they clung together, forget
ting everything past. future or pres
ent. Loves anguish made them blind.
mute and deaf.
They did not hear the conductor
crying his "All Aboard" down the
long wall Of the train. They did not
hear the far-off knell Of the bell. They
did not hear the porrers banging the
vestibules shut. They did not feel
the floor sliding out with them.
And so the porter found them, en-.
quilted in one embrace. swaying and
swaying, and no more aware OF the
increasing rush Of the train than we
other passengers on the earth-express
are aware OF its speed through the
ether-routes on its ancient schedule.
The porter stood with his boI-step
in his hand, and blinked and Won
dered. And they did not even know
they were observed.
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his fingers In bravado. You are with
your husband, aren't you?"
I'm 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, ard when we come to Wyoming.
we're not married at ALL
1t was certainly a tangled web they
had woven, but 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.
ION one condition, Arthur-that
you leave me as soon as we cross the
Iowa state line, and not come back
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 line?"
1.-TWO tifty.tive in the mawning.
sah."
1.-TWO fifty-tive a. m.?" the wretch
exclaimed.
1.-TWO tifty-tve a. M, yassah," the
porter repeated, and wondered why
this excerpt from the timetable
should exert such a dramatic effect
on the lusciouseyed Fosdick.
He had small time to mediate the
puzzle, for the train was about to be
launched upon its long voyage. He
went out to the platform, and watched
a couple making that way. AS their
only luggage was a dog basket he sup
posed that they were simply come to
bid some of his passengers goodbye.
No tips were to be expected from
such transients, SO he allowed them to
help themselves up the steps.
Mallory and his Marjorie had tried
to kiss the farewell or farewells half
a dozen times, but she could not let
him 60 at the gate. She asked the
guard to let her through, and her
beauty was bribe enough.
Again and again, she and Mallory
paused. He wanted to take her back
to the taxicab, but she would not be
so dismissed. She must spend the
last available second with him.
"Ill go as far as the steps OF the
car" she said When they We're ar
rived there, two porters, sleeping
car conductor and several smoking
saunterers profaned tne tryst. So she
whispered that she would come
aboard, for the corridor would be a
quiet lane for the last rites.
And now that he had her actually
on the train, Mallory's whole soul re-
volted against letting her go. The
vision of her standing on the plat
form sad-eyed and lorn, while the
train swept him Off into space was
uncomfortable. He shut his eyes against
1t, but 1t glowed inside the lids.
And then temptation whispered him
It's old why not?' While it was
working In his soul like fermenting
yeast, he was saying:
ITO think that we should owe all
our misfortune to an Internal taxi
cabs break down"
Out of the anguish or her loneliness
crept one little complaint:
''If you had really wanted me, you'd
have had two taxicabs."
"Oh, how can you say that? had
the license bought and the minister
waiting"
He's waiting yet"
And the ring-tnere's the ring"
He fished 1t out of his waistcoat pock.
ct and held it before her as golden
amulet.
"a lot OF good 1t does now" said
Marjorie you won't even wait over
till the next train"
I've told you thousand times. my
love-" he protested. desperately, III I
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TRESPASS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given to all persons
not to trespass with dogs, guns, fishing
or cutting down of any timber upon my
mountain land, home place or the Will
hide place, or on any land belonging to
me wherever situated, as the Law will
be strictly enforced against such person
or persons.
MRS. CHARLES SHIPLEY.
july l6 If
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Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-10
RAISED CHECKS HIT
 MERCHANTS OF TUCSON
Railroad LabOrerS Cash Paper and Make Prof'iS on
 One Days Work

TUCSON. Jan g. The sherirfs office and sundry business men would like 10 meet several former laborers Of the Ely Construction company on the Fl Paso and Southwestern exten- sion, for the reason that one or all of the l aborers in question have about S2O0 more of the merchants money than they are entitled to, and all by a clever bit of check-raising II is supposed that the guilty men are now many hundreds or miles away.
 The checks were all labor checks Of the Ely Construction company, and an investigation showed that each Of four men had worked a day, drawn about s1.l5 each in cheeks. and come to Tucson.
 Toward the last Of the week, the checks began drifting into the Tue son banks. It developed that one Of the laborers had gone into the New York store, bought S2O worth of goods, and presented in payment a check for $9760 He got $50 in cash and the balance in due-bills Alex Rossi cashed a check for S5G.50 and F. P. Drew on- for S5S.
 Investigation show wed that the check-raising had been effected by means Of acid which was used to erase the correct figures.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-10
COUNTING OF
 BALLOTS SLOW
Kent Wants to Hurry but Young and Sloan Seem to See no Cause
 for Haste
SIX HOURS MAKE DAY

With Chief Justice Kent eager to proc ed as fast as possible, Secretary Young showing no disposition to make haste, and Governor Sloan ut terly indifferent. the canvass of votes east December l2 is proceeding rather slowly at the capitol building. the prospect being that it cannot be com plrted before January 25 says the Democrat
 Judge Kent slends a large part of his time with the clerks, and ire quetly relieves them. Governor Sloan and Secretary Young are occasionally present. but seldom do they show any disposition 10 count any of the votes
 Six hours has been fixed as g working day. and in this connection they are talking of an interesting con versation between Judge Kent and Secretary Young. which indicates in measure the different desires Of the two men.
 As the hour of four o'clock ap- preached. Secretary Young suggested that the work for the day end Judge Kent replied that it might be well Co work overtime. and finish up the county on which the clerks were checking
 "l cant leave here and have my office open with all these records ly- ing around, declared Young
 We will be responsible for them, replied Kent.
 But if l go and leave you here working, people will think it is funny if they see me on the street. com plained Young
 't guess they will not think you have committed any wrong if they see the governor on the street too, said Kent and the incident closed.
 Based on the completion of the canvass on January 9, it is not probable that Arizona will he a state before about February ,, if not later.
 The longer the count, the longer will be the terms Of Governor Sloan, Secretary Young and Chief Justice Kent.