The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-04-19
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CHAPTER XII.


The almost-married- couple sat lone
In mutual terror and d common par.
alysib Of ingenuity. Marjorie, for lack
of Anything better to do, was absent.
mindedly twisting Snoozleum's ears,
while he, that pocket abridgment of a
dog. nv a. Vel meaning effort to di.
vert her from ier' evident grief, made
q great pretense of ferocity, growing
and threatening to bite her fingers
ON. The new ring attracted his spe-
cial jealousy. He was growing dis
couraged at the ill-success of his i'm
ipersonation of a wolf, and detected
at being SO crassly ignored, when he
suddenly became, in his turn, center
OF interest
Marjorie was awakened from her
trance OF inanition by the porter's
voice. His plantation voice was or
dinarily as thick and sweet as his own
New Orleans sorghum, but now it had
a bitterness that curdled the blood:
"Scuse me, but how did you-all git
that theah dog In this heah cah?"
"Snoozleums is always with me-"
said Marjorie briskly, as If that set
tied it, and turned for confirmation
to the dog himself, aren't you,
Snoozleums?"
WELL" the porter drawled, trying
to be gracious with his great power,
the rules don't low no live stock in
the sleepin' cars, 'ceptin' humans"
Marjorie rewarded his condescen-
sion with a blunt: "Snoozleums Is
more human than you are"
."F p'sume he is" the porter ad-
mitted. "but he can't make UP berths.
Anyway. the rules says dogs goes
with the baggage"
Marjorie swept rules aside with a
defiant: II don't care. l won't be
separated from my Snoozleumsy
She looked to Mallory for support,
but he was too sorely troubled with
greater anxieties to be capable of any
action.
Tho porter tried persuasion: You
beta femme take him, the conducta
Is wuss'n what l am. He th'owed a
couple of dogs out the window trip
:befo' last"
"The brute!"
oh. yassum, he is a regular brute.
He Just loves to hear m splosh when
they light"
Noting the shiver that shook the
girl, tho porter offered a bit of con-
ISOLATION:
Better femme have the pore little
thing up in the baggage cab. He'll be
an charge Of lovely baggage-smash-
err"
e. ARE you sure he's nice man?"
Oh. yassum, he's death on trunks. |
but he's a natural born angel to
dogs"
. Well, II must, must" she
sobbed. Poor little Snoozleums! Can
he come back and see me tomorrow
Marjories tears were splashing on
the puzzled dog, who nestled close.
with a foreboding Of disaster.
II reckon p'haps you'd better visit
him" 49,. t,[
Poor dear little noozleums-good
night. my Titles darling. Poor. little
child-it's the first night he's slept
all by his little lonesome, and"
The porter was growing desperate.
He clapped his hands together inn
and urged: Il think | hear
that conducta comm"
The ruse succeeded. Marjorie fair
ly forced the dog on him. Quick
hide him-hurry!" she gasped, and
sank on the seat completely crushed.
Ill be SO lonesome without Snoozle-
ums."
Mallory felt called upon to remind
her OF his presence. Tim here,
Marjorie" She looked at him Just
once-at him, the source of all her
troubles-buried her head in her
arms, and resumed her grief. Mallory
stared at her helplessly, then rose
and bent over to whisper:
I'm going to look through the
,rain.".
"Oh, don't leave me-" she pleaded,
,linging to him with a dependence
hat restored his respect.
Il must find clergyman" he whis-
,ered. I'll be back the minute find
,ne, and I'll bring him with me-
The porter thought he wanted the
log back, and quickened his pace till
le reached the corridor, where NAL ..
Org overlook him and asked, In an
Mort at casual indifference, II he had
een anything OF clergyman on .
,oard
Amt seen nothin' that even looks ,
Ike one." said the porter. Then he
fastened ahead to the baggage car ,
With the squirming Snoozleums, while :
dallory followed slowly, going from =
eat to seat and car to car, subjecting !
III the males to an inspection that
endered some Of them indignant, :
theirs OF them uneasy. =
II dear old Doctor Temple could +
My have known what Mallory was
uniting, he would have snatched on .
he mask, and thrown aside the secu- \
lr scarlet tie at all costs. But poor | .
iallory, unable to recognize a clergy h
an SO dyed-in-the-wool as Doctor 4
emple, sitting In the very next seat 9
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