Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-29
KIN you tell what the law is bout

Michael smiled and rose. to give her
a chair as courteously as though she
had been a lady born.
"Sit down." he said. Eyes, I am a
lawyer. What can I do for you?"
II s'pose you charge a lot" said
the girl with a meaning glance around
the room. You've got thin's fixed
fine as silk here. But I'll pay any
thin you asst eff it takes me a life
time to do it, eff you'll jest tell me
how I kin git my rights"
your rights?" questioned Michael
sadly. Poor child! Had she any
rights in the universe that he could
help her to get?. The only rights he
knew for such as she were room In
a quiet graveyard and-a chance to be
forgotten. .
Say. amt 1t against the law fer a
man to marry a woman when he's al
ready got one wife?" ~
1T is" said Michael. unless he
gets a DIVORCE" o j..
well. 1 amt goin' to give him no
divorce, you bet!' said the. girl fierce
W, II worked hard enough to get a
up to no fash-nable swell. TINS
goods she is. an I've got my rights
an III hev. 'em. An besides. there's
baby Her face softened and
took on a love light; and Immediate
~ Michael was reminded of the ma
donna picture again. .''I've got to
think Q, him." Michael marvelled to
see that the girl was reveleling in her
possession of the little helpless bur-
den who had been the cause of her
sorrow
Tell me about it," His voice was
very gentle. He recalled suddenly
that this was Sans girl. Poor Sam,
tooN The world was a terribly
tangled mess OF trouble.
We'll, there amt much to tell that
counts. only he KEEP com'pny with
me, an I wouldn't hev ennythin' else
but q real MARRIAGE, an so he Civ in,
an we he'd a couple O. rooms in a real
respectable house an he'd it fine till
he had to go away on business, he
said. I never 'b'leeved that. Why he
was downright rich. He's a real
swell, you know, What kind o. bust
ness cud he have?"! Lizzie straighten-
Ned herself proudly and held her head
high.
ABOUT whom, are you talking?-
asked Michael.
why, my husband, course, Mr..
6ty-ve-zant. Carter. You ken see his
name in tthe paper real often. He
didn't want me to know his real
name. He he'd me call him Dan
Hunt fer two months, but 1 caught
on, an he was real mad fer a while.
He said: his ma didn't like. the match.
an he didn't want folks to. know he'd
got married, It might hurt him with
some of his swell friends
4 you don't mean to tell me that
MI. Stuyyesant Carter ever really
married you!" said Michael In
credulously.
"sure!" said Lizzie proudly, mar
5ried me Jest like emmy swell; got me
a dimon ring. an a silk lined suit an
a willer plume an eyerythin'." Lizzie
held mp a grimy hand on which Mi
chael saw a snowy glitter Of jewelry.
Have you anything to show for
IT.? asked Michael. expecting her OF
course to cay no. "Haveyou any GER
tifcate or paper to prove that you
were married according to law?"
"Sure!" said Lizzie triumphantly,
drawing forth Q crumpled roll from
the folds OF her dress and smoothing
it out before his astonished eyes.
There AZ was,ssa printed wedding
d colored picture ofstwo clasped hands
under . white dove with a gold ring
in it's beak. Beneath was an idealized
boat with silken sails bearing two
people down q ross lined river Of life:
and the whole was bordered with
orange blossoms. It was one OF those
old -fashioned affairs that country
ministers used to give their parishion-
ers III the years gone by. and are still
to be had In some dusty corners OF q
forgotten drawer in country book
stores.sS But Michael recognized II
once that It wAs aSreal certificate. He
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