The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-05-03
TO Whattie Hitney, the apple of my

-Oglesby announced that he loved
ms new found friends and the glorious
metropolis of Hot Eye so we'll that he
was gong to build Hattie the finest
nome IN Hot Eye. This would not have
1een much of a boast if he had not
described the new domicile as a sort
% enlarged Alhambra, with Lake Como
tor a swimming pool and Central park
Tor a window box.
nullln, Cochran, and Gorrell, as good
c.tizens, welcomed any public spirited
Hu11ln suddenly remembered that the
quartet made up all the officers of the
f1ot Eye Chamber of Commerce, and, in
1act' almost all the members. Cochran
had an idea:
u rise to p'pose-I sit to p'pose we
the ethyl"
Rutfin, as president, called the meet
ing to order and directed Secretary
Mlnge to read the minutes of the pre-
vlous session.
Minge had not been idle. He had
gone straight to Hattie-not exactly
straight, of course, but had gone to
Hattie. She had been doing a bit of
thinking in the absence of the men.
She could always think better when
there were no men around.
She had dreamed of marrying the
handsome stranger-because he was a
stranger and because he was handsome.
linen h had insisted on the marriage
to save him from destruction. But she
had to admit that his chivalry had de-
parted as fast as his sobriety had re-
turned. He had done everything he
could to get out of the marriage and the
town.
Who was the fellow, anyway? He
might be a tinhorn gambler. He
might have been put off the train for
lack of railroad fare. Why should she
sacrifice herself for an unknown and
an unreliable? No! She resolved that
she would never be Mrs. Harold Snow
den or Mrs. J.. Galahad Oglesby or
Mrs. Whomeverhewas. She could con-
thu as she began.
Then Minge reeled in, sobbing.
She demanded:
NOV what you blubbering about,
You're goin' to marry Har'l, and it
breaks my yart."
Whats it to you who I marry, SEEM
you don't want to marry me yourself?"
"Of course I do! I'll die if I don't"
CAV, go on! Why should you want
to marry me?"
Because I love you, you darn fool"
"Well. I suppose that's as close to a
go to Joe Garcia's and get married"
"We-you and me?-us?"
IF you want me, grab me quick"
HAT! o, Hat, you don't mean it
you can't mean it. YOU"
"Aw; shut up and git going! COME
Minge and Hattie were hardly man
and wife before the Hot Eye Chamber
of Commerce and it's almost extinguish-
ed visitor set out in search of the alb
sconding secretary.
professions met in front of the Pant
atorium. At sight of Hattie, Oglesby
flung his hands wide with a joyous cry:
Come to m rms, mlife, invite, M
all! Fly with me to the neares' Peace
of the Justice and be made n in bOn's
of molly hatrimony."
Minge advanced in lofty wrath. drag
ging his anchor. Hattie barely manag-
ed to prevent him from shifting his
defeated rival with anything more
b~onebreaking than hard words. Ogles-
by, however, was in a mood OF such
universal love that he tried to embrace
gy, dear OIL NANCY Mingy, se'ty Of the
chommerce of Gambler. When at last
he was made to realize the truth his
eyes wavered from Minge to
Hattie and he reproached her bitterly.
Don't tell me my ladye fayre-with
eyes and ease-is already the wife Of
another. Don't tell me such perdify
is possle. Don't tell me! I can't STAN
it! Why, it's downri' treasury. It's
decide dulling. My deares' frien'
Mincemeat turns out-after all these
rv4@~ kro- 4,,k NH;~41~a41k n %hoCc
bad! Thass terrible. But that you,
Miss Hittie Whatty-O, faceless female,
at you should stab me lima back be-
fore my very FACET can't believe it.
It's absolimpossiblutable."
He actually tried to win Hattie back,
to lead her aside and conspire with her
to fly with him and abandon both
Minge and Hot Eye. The enchanted
citizens swarming to the spectacle
might have seen the universal Romeo
slaughtered before their eyes if the
shrill whistle of the eastbound local
mad not pierced the sunset air and in
die:
It'll tell you what! You boys hustle
Harold to the deepo and slam him on
that train"
The entire chamber of commerce fell
upon the struggling Oglesby and rush.
ed him to the station. There Cochran,
his official capacity as railroad agent,
him over to the conductor and
two brakemen with the most positive
take this guys far as you go and
then transfer him to the EN- O. the line.
The en- of the worl's too close for COM
Oglesby, wrapped in the fervid EN-
of the conductor and the brake
nan, was still shrieking for Hattie
when the train pulled out. The brake
man and the conductor were petting
aim and telling him to be brave, but
re was inconsolable and his cries made
heart ache, yet as pleasantly
hearts can ache, for she had the
are, the supreme womanly privilege of
to the husband of her choice
while a desperate lover of her discard