The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1922-11-09
So They Were
Married
BY CLARA DELAFiELD
70, 1872, Western Newspaper Unlon.J }

'That's Mr.. Railway, cashier of
our bank. Well preserved old gen
tleman, isn't he2 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 Wessels feed
store for SIS week, and Emily was
clerking in the department store
Blum's department store; you'll see
1t 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?
"Well, sif, Jim wasn't exactly what
you might call saver, and Emily,
she wanted to get married, like any
other young woman. 1t wasn't in any
sense love match, you understand.
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 Jim's running around with the
youngest Eden girl. People used to
twit Emily about it, and naturally she
didn't like 1t. Also they were be-
ginning to wonder how soon she and
Jim would get married, and whether
1t was coming off at all. On Febru-
ary ID somebody sent Emily comic
valentine-the old-maid kind. That
stung. Emily grew rather desperate.
well, old Mr.. PATHWAY 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 1 was saying, he'd known
Emily since she was baby.
"And that's where the catch-l
mean the match-came in. You see,
he was suspicious as sin of all the
old maids in town, but Emily-why,
she was baby. Emily 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 Bowker?
"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.. Pathway fell for
her like child.
"Dor he shouted. Make the darped
young cuss jealous, of course. As
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
we'll to say that answered Emily,
but you know i couldn't play with
mans heart in that way. Now II 1t
was you-Oh, Mr.. Railway, won't you
let Jim think it's YOU?
"Now maybe she didn't use exactly
those words, because there was no
third party present to hear. But old
Mr.. Railway fell for it--he sure did.
And he took Emily to the next church
sociable.
mo end of 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 'em
kissing under the elms.
my, II run through the village like
And the next thing was
Emily's going to Lawyer jerks, heart
broken.
my life's ruined from love for Mr..
who won't carry out his
promise to marry me- she said, or
words to that effect.
OF course Lawyer jerks was no
fool; he knew as much as any one
Of us, and a little more, but the
next thing was breach-of-promlse
suit for $4,000.
"Well, old Mr.. Railway wasn't a
fool, either He loved his money.
and he knew any jury in Travis
county would soak him to the
INIT, the old bloodsucker. And then
veil, you see, as was saying Emily
lad led him on and led him on, so
hat in the END he came to ths con-
lusion that maybe he'd rather have
pretty young wife than lose $4,000.
nd be the laughing stock of the
own
"So-they were married last year.
tules him pretty stern, too, they say
he does, but she looks after him, and
guess the old gentleman's never re-
retted the step he took. or course
e doesn't know all the towns wise to