Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-29
So They Were
Married
By CLARA DELAFIELD
20, 1929. western Newspaper union.) :

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That's Mr.. Railway, cashier Of
our bank. Well preserved old gen;
tleman, isn't he7 That's Emily Rath.
way. Fine looking young woman!
Yes, they were married last year. a
very good catch-I mean match, for
Emily.
"You see, Jim Bowker had been
hanging around Emily for nearly
seven years. When they began court
ing, Jim worked in Wessel's feed
store for SIS week, and Emily was
clerking in the department store
Blum's department store; you'll see
it on the next corner. Jim and Emily
seemed struck by each other, but
neither was any sort Of catch-I mean
match. Emily is rather plain. isn't
she, though marriage has improved
her. Jim? Oh, he's hanging around
somewheres? 8.
"Well, sir, Jim wasn't exactly what
you might call a saver, and Emily,
she wanted to get married, like aay
other young woman. 1t wasn't In any
sense a love match, you understand. !.
When folks have been courting for
six years, If they aren't married, they
never ought to be. But they'd sort
of got used to each other, and they
honestly meant to get married some
day.
Emily was ready on the drop OF
the hat. But Jim had never saved
cent, and there got to be some talk
about Jims running around with the
youngest Eden girl. People used to
twit Emily about it, and naturally she
didn't like it. Also they were be
ginning to wonder how soon she and
Jim would get married, and whether
It was coming off at all. On Febru-
ary IA somebody sent Emily comic
valentIne-the old-maid kind. That
stung. Emily grew rather desperate.
"Well, old Mr.. Railway had been
friend Of the family for years. Wild.
over for 20 years, no family, most OF
the money that exists in our town,
etc. a splendid catch. But all the
women had long ago stopped setting
their caps for him. Couldn't catch
him. He was a willy old bird. Jolly
as sandboy, and full Of Interest IN
life, and, as I was saying, he'd known W.T.
1 81, nhn n hohu
"And that's where the CATCH
mean the match-came in. You see,
he was suspicious as sin of all the
old maids in town, but Emily-why,
she was a baby. EnEly was almost
like his own child, the way he looked
on her. He sure thought he was safe
with Emily. Besides, wasn't there
Jim Bowker7
"Emily went to him, I'm told, cry.
ing, and said Jim was running round
with the Eden girl, and what was
she to do. Old Mr.. Railway fell for
irrr- Hike :
"Do? he shouted. Make the darned
young cuss Jealous, Of course. Al
long as he thinks he can have. you
whenever he wants you, why natu'
| rally he doesn't care to trouble. Make
him think you're running round with
somebody else
".Oh, Mr.. Railway, It's all very
well to say that answered Emily
but you know 1 couldn't play with 9
mans heart in that way. Now II II
was you-Oh, Mr.. Railway, won't you
let Jim think It's your
Now maybe she didn't use exactly
those words, because there was nc
third party present to hear. But old
Mr.. Railway fell for it-he sure did
And he took Emily to the next church
sociable.
"No end Of a stir that made, and
the old gentleman began enjoying the
fun, and perhaps, too, he enjoyed hav
ing pretty girl to go about with
fairly pretty, anyway-even at his
time of life. Anyway, Emily led him
on and led him on, and the next
thing was that Joe Bludsoe caught 'en
kissing under the elms.
"My, it run through the village like
wildfre. And the next thing was
Emily's going to Lawyer jerks, heart
broken.
"'My life's ruined from love for Mr.
Railway, who won't carry out his
promise to marry me- she said, OF
words to that effect.
| OF course Lawyer jerks was no
fool; he knew as much as any one
of us, and little more, but the
next thing was a breach-of-promise
suit for $25,000.
"Well, old Mr.. Railway wasn't q
fool, either. He loved his money,
and he knew any jury in Travis
county would soak him to the
limit the old bloodsucker. And then
well, you see, as was saying, Emily
had led him on and led him on, so