The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-07-29

waitstill in its ungeerous reproach
was repented OF as soon as II left her
tongue. "Oh. did not mean that my
darlngr' she cried Il would have
welcomed any change for you and
thanked God for IL, II only II could
have come honorably aud aboveboard."
But. don't you see. Waity. how my
marriage helps everything? That Is
what makes me happiest; that now
shall have home and II can be yours
Father has plenty Of money aud ran
get hOusckeeper. He Is only sixty
FIVE. and as hale and hearty as man
can be. You have served your time.
and surely you need not he his drudge
for the rest Of your life. Mark aud
thought you would spend half the year
with us"
waitstlll waived this point MS too i'm.
possible for discussion. when and
where were you married. Patty she
asked
"1n Allentown. n. H.. last Monday.
the day you and father went to Saco.
Ellen went with us. You needn't sup.
pose It was much fun for me! Girls
that think running away to I've mar.
ried is nothing but a lark do not have
to deceive sister like you nor have
n father such as mine to reckon with
afterward."
"You thought of all that before.
didn't you, child?"
Nobody that hasn't already run
away to be married once or twice
could tell how 1t was going to feel.
Never did pass so unhappy a day.
IL Mark was not everything that Is
kind and gentle he would have tipped
me out OF the sleigh into snowbank
and left me by the roadside 10 freeze.
IL might have been murdered instead
Of only married by the way behaved.
but Mark and Ellen understood Then
the very next day Marks father sent
him up to Bridston on business, and
he had TO go to Allentown first to re-
turn friends horse so he couldn't
break the news to father mt once, as
he intended"
Does n New Hampshire marriage
hold good in Maine?" asked Waitstill,
still intent on the bare facts at the
bottom Of the romance.
"well, Of course. stammered Patty,
somewhat confused. Maine has her
own way of doing things and wouldn't
be likely 10 fancy New llampshire's.
But nothing can make IL wicked or
anything but according to law.
"Besi.ies. Mark considered NIL the diff
ficulties. He Is wonderfully clever,
and he has clerkship In a Ports
mouth law Office waiting for him, and
that's where we are going to live, In
New Hampshire, where we were mar
ried, and my darling sister will come
soon and stay months and months with
u.s."
when Is Mark coming back TO ar
range all this?"
Late tonight or early tomorrow
morning"
Where did you go after you were
married?'
where did | go?" echoed Patty in a
childish burst of tears. Where could
go? 1t took all day to be married
all day long, working and driving hard
from sunrise TO Z o'clock In the even
ing Then when we reached the bridge
Mark dropped me. and ! walked up
home In the dark and went to bed
without any supper for fear that you
and father would come back and catch
me at 1t and ask why was so late"
"My poor, foolish DEAR sighed Wait
still
Patty's tears flowed faster at the
first sound Of sympathy In Waitstill's
voice. for self pity is very enfeebling
She fairly sobbed as she continued:
80 my only wedding journey was
the freezing drive back from Allen
town, with Ellen CRYING all the way