Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-11-07

| Then a sudden idoa struck him. n
| took no great genius TO see that MIR.
/ Baumann was not clergyman, but
there were other marriers to be had.
You don't perform marriages, do
/ YOU he asked
Mr. Baumann drew himself up:
Who says | doDt' Amt / justice
OF the peaces?"
Mallory put out his hand in wei.
| come: then a new anxiety chilled
him. He had license for Chicago.
but Chicago was far away: DO 1
need a license in Nevada
why shouldn't you said Mr. Bau-
/ mann. Don't all sorts Of things got
/ 10 have a license I'm Nevada. saloons.
husbands. dogs"
How could | get one?' Mallory
asked as he went on dressing
! Amt | got few Wit me? DO you
want to get nice remarriage IL
| censor
"Re-marriage?- huh!" he looked
round. and seeing that no one else
was near: Il haven't taken the first
step yet"
Mr. Baumann laved his hands I'm
one another: a bctchelor? All, see
| you want to marry a nice dlyorcee
/ lady in R-r.reno?'
she isn't in Reno and she has
never been married, either
This simple statement seemed to
astcund Mr. Baumann:
~ botcheller marry a maidcn!--in
| Reno'-oi, OIL OF! 1t hasn't been
done yet. but II might be-
Mallory looked him over and
/ twinRe OF distaste disturbed him:
You furnish the license. but-er--ah
is there any chance of a clergyman
"a Christian clergyman-being at the
station?"
Wy do you want it a cloigyman7
Can't do 1t just as good? Or a nice
fat alderman l can get your"
Mallory pondered 81 don't think
she'd like anything but clergyman.
Veil" Baumann confessed, "a lady
is liable to be particular about her
foist marriage. Anyway | sell you de
license"
An right"
Mr.. Baumann whipped out a port.
folio full of documents, and as be
searched them, philosophical: "A
man ought always to carry good mar.
riage license 1t might be he should
need 1t In a hurry" lie took a large
iron seal from his side-pocket and
stamped the paper and then. with
fountain pen poised. pleaded: wat is
the names, please"
Not so loud" Mallory whispered.
Baumann put his finger to his nose,
wisely: Il see, it is confidential
marriage. Sit down once"
When he had asked Mallory the
necessary questions and taken his fee,
e he passed over the document by
which the sovereign state OF Nevada
graciously permitted two souls to be
made more or less one in the eyes OF
the law.
Here you are" said MIR. Baumann
wit dat you can get married anyyere
/ in Nevada"
Mallory realized that Nevada woulC
D be a thing of the past in a few hour!
more and he asked
It's no good in Californian"
"Himmel. no. In California you bot
gotta go and be examined"
i Examined" Mallory gasped, II
dire alarm.
II wit questions. poissonally." Mr.
Baumann FASTENED to explain.
II OH"
II In Nevada" Baumann insinuated
still hopeful. 81 could mary you my
: self-now, right here"
d Gould you marry us in this smok
e ing room?"
" In cattle car, If you want It,"
IT'S not a bad idea" said Mallory
n IN let you know"
Seeing Marjorie coming down tn,
u aisle, he FASTENED to her, and hugget
/ her good-morning with a new conf
dence
It Dr. and Mrs. Temple, who had re
turned to their berth, Witnessed thi
3 greeting with amazement After tn
quarrel Of the night before surel
some explanation should have beel
n overheard, but the puzzing Mallory
IT flew to each others arms without
moments delay. The mystery was eN
citing the passengers to such a poin
u that they we're vowing to ask fey
y questions point blank. Nobody ha
quite dared to approach either q
10 them, but frank curiosity was prefer
able TO nervous prostration, and tn
secret could not be kept much Longer
Fellow-passengers have some right:
Not even a stranger can be permitte
le to outrage their curiosity with in
punity forever.
ITO BE CONTISUED)
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