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RUPERT HUGHES jNovmzed won to COMEDY OF TflE SAME v; flAME. T T T I LWSTitATED E?6h PHOTOft?APH8 OF THE PtAY AS BRODUCED W. S^AGBlj . ?. ' ? <ropYi^ioMT ^ M. H- ftv ca ?YNOPtir CHAPTER J. I /teut. Harry Mallory U ordered to the Philippines. lie and Mar Jorl#! Newton de<l<ie to elope, but wreck of taxtcub prevent# their seeing minister on the way to the train. CHAPTER JI. -Transcontinental train la taking on passengers Pprter has a Uvely tlm? with an rlngliiihman and Ire lAthrop, a TauKM business nun. CHAPTER III. -The elopers have aJi exciting time getting to the train. CHAPTER IV.? "kittle Jlmmle" Wel lington. bound for Reno to get a divorce, S tarda train In maudlin oonditlon. ImAw re. JLmmle appears. CHAPTER V.? She U also bound fa* I Reno with lame object. IJkewla? Mm. ' Sammy Whltcomb. CHAPTER VI. ? Latter blames Mia. Jlmmle for her marital trouble*. Class matea of Mallory decorate bridal berth. CHAPTER VII.-Rev. and Mrs. Temple ?tart on a vacation. They decldo to cut loone and Temple remove! evidence of hie oalHng , 1_ . CHAPTER VIII.? MarJorle dec idee to let Mallory proceed alone, but train starts while they are loat in farewell. CHAPTER IX.? Passengers join Mal lory's claeematee In giving couple wed ding hairing. CHAPTER X. ? MarJorle la detracted over their eltuatlon. CHAPTER XI. ? Ira I^athrop, woman hating bachelor, diavovera an old sweet heart, Anne Uattle. a fellow paaaenger. CHAPTER XII.? MaJ lory vainly hunte tor a preacher among the paeaengera. CHAPTER XIII.-Mra. Wellington haare Little Jlmmie'a voice. Later ahe meets Mre. Whltcomb. CHAPTER XIV.? Mallory reporta to MarJorle hie failure to And a preacher. CHAPTER XV.? They decide to pretend a quarrel and Mallory flnds a vacant berth. CHAPTER XVI.? Mra. Jlmmle discov ers Wellington on the train. CHAPTER XVII.? Mallory again make* an unsuccessful hunt for a preacher. CHAPTER XVIII.? Dr. Temple poses aa a physician. Mre. Temple la inouced ? by Mre. Wellington to amoke a cigar. . CHAPTER XIX. -Sight of preacher on a station platform raises Mallory's hopea. but he takes another train. CHAPTER XX.? Missing hand baggage compels tho oouplo to borrow from pas sengers. ? CHAJTER XXI. -Jlmmle gets a cinder in his eye and Mrs. Jimmie gives first aid. Coolness is then resumed. CHAPTER XXII.? Still no clergyman. ! More borrowing. CHAPTER XXIII.? Dr. Temple puzzled by behavior of dlfTerent couples. CHAPTER XXIV? Marjorle's Jenlousy aroused by Mallory's baseball Jargon. ? CHAPTER XXV - MarJorle suggests wrecking tho train in hopes that accident will produce a preacher. CHAPTER XX VI. ? MarJorle tries to in duce the conductor to hold the train so uhe can shop. CHAPTER XX VII -Marjorle's dog is missing. She pulls the cord, stopping the tmln. Conductor restores dog anu lovers quarrel. CHAPTER XX VIII.? I^athrop wires for a preacher to marry him and Mlsa dat tle Mallory tells Eathrop of his predica ment and arranges to borrow the preacher. CHAPTER XXIX. -Kitty Leweltyn. for mer sweetheart of Mallory's. appears and arouses Marjorle's Jealousy. CHAPTER XXX? Preacher boards train. CHAPTER XXXI.? After marrying La thro p and Miss Oattlo the preacher escapes Mallory by leaping from moving train. CHAPTER XXXII. Mallory's dejection moves MarJorle to reconciliation. CHAPTER XXXIII The last day on the trntn brings to Mallory the fear of missing his transport CHAPTER XXXIV. Tho Complete Divorcer. The other passengers wore growing nervous with their own troubles. The next stop was Iteno, and In spite of nil the wit that Is heaped upon the town, it Is a solemn place to those who must go there In purgatorial pen ance for matrimonial error. Some honest souls regard such di vorce-emporiums as dens of evil, where the wicked make a mockery of tho sacrament and assail the founda tions of society, by undermining the home. Other equally honest souls, believing that marriage Is a human Institution whose mishaps and mis takes should be rectified as far as possible, regard tho divorce courts as cities of refuge for Ill-treated or ill mated women and men whose lives may bo saved from utter ruination by the intervention of high-minded judges. Hut, whichever view Is right, the ordeal by divorce t? terrifying enough to the poor sinners or martyrs who must undergo It. Little Jlmmle Wellington turned pale, and stammered, a* he tried td ask the conductor casually: "What kind of a place la that ? Renor The conductor, somewhat cynical from cloee association with the di vorce-mill and it* grist, grinned: "That depends on what you're laav vln* behind. Mo* folks seem to get ' ajnoigh of it u afcotft at* psmmrm 'Than h^ want his way, leaving Weil lngton rod, agape and perplexed. The trouble with Wellington wan that be bad brought along what be wan leav ing beblud. Or, as Asbton impudently observed: "You ought to enjoy your residence tbere, Wellington, wltb your wife on hand." The only repartee that Wellington could think of was a rather unln uplred: "You go to ? " "Ho long aa It lan't Heno," Ashton laughed, and walked away. Wedgewood laid a sympathetic hand on Little Jlmmle'a shoulder, and said: "That Ashton Is no end of a bound er, what?" Wellington wrote his epitaph In these words: "Well, the worst I can say of him Is, he's the kind of man that doesn't lift the plug out when he's through with the basin." ~ He liked this so well that he wished he bad thought of It In time to crack It over Ashton's head. He decided to hand it to him anway. He forgot that the cardinal rule for repartee. Is "Better never than late." As he swung out of the men's room he was buttonholed by an Individual new to the little Trans-American col ony. One of the camp-followers and sutlers who prosper round the edges of all great enterplse* had .waylaid him on the way to the battleground of marital freedom. The stranger had got on at an earlier stop and worked his way through the train to the car named "Snowdrop." Wellington was his first victim here. His pushing manner, the almost vulture-like rapacity of hie gleaming eyes, and the very vul turine contour of his profile, his palmy gestures, his thick lisp, and every thing about him gave Wellington his Immediate pedigree. It 111 behooves Christendom to need reminding that the Jewish race has adorned and still adorns humanity with some of Its noblest specimens; but this interloper was of the type that must have irritated Voltaire Into answering the platitude that the Jews are God's chosen people with that other platitude, "Tastes differ." Little Jlmmie Wellington, hot in pursuit of Ashton, found himself checked in spite of himself; In spite of himself deposited somehow Into a seat, and In spite of himself confront ed with a curvilinear person, who said : "Excooae, pleass! but are you get tlnk off at K-r-reno?" "I am," Wellington answered, curt ly, essaying to rise, only to be deli cately restored to his place with a gesture and a phrase: "Then you neet me." "Oh, I need you, do I? And who are you?" "Who ain't I? I am Baumann and Blumen. Our cart, pleass." Wellington found a pasteboard In his hand and read the legend: Real Estate A genu Baggage Transfer Baumann $ Blumen Divorce Ourflttcrs in HIImosv JHksm, Rene, naa<U Notary Public Dlrorce* Secured JuKice of the Peace fcatlifactlon Guaranteed Wellington looked from the crowded card to the zealous face. "Divorce Outfitters, eh? I don't quite got you."* "Veil, In the foist place ? " " "The foist place,' eh? You're from New York " "Yes, oritchinally. How did you know It? By my feshlonable cloth ink?" "Yes," laughed Wellington. "But you say I need you. How?" "Veil, you've got maybe some beg getch, some trunks ? yes?" "Yes." "Veil, In the foist place, I am an expressman. I deliver 'em to your address ? yes? Vere isa it?" "I haven't got any yet." "Also I am addressman. Do you vant it a nice hotel?? or a fine house? ? or an apartment? ? or maybe a l)oardlng-house? ? yes? How long do you make a residence?" "Six months." "No longer?" "Not a minute.'* 'Take a line house, den. I got some beauties just wacated." "For a year? ? no thanks." "All the leasee In Reno run for six months only." "Well, I'd like to look around a lit tie first." "Good. Don't forget us. You come out here for six months. You vant maybe a good quick divorce ? yes?" "The quidkest I can get." "Do you rant it confidential? or very nice and noisy T** "What's that?" t, "Ve are preee agents and also sup press agent*. Borne likes 'em one way. some likes 'em an udder. Vtefc do you rant It?" "Quick, and quiet." j/Ar # j(jiT M T ? .1 HI I ff fl^pn "Painless divorce la our specialty. | If you pay m? an advance deposit now, I file your claim da minute de train stops and your owb vife don't know you're divorced." "I'll think it over," said Wellington, lining with reaolutlon. "Don't forget ua. Baumann and Biumen. Satisfaction guaranteed or your wife refunded. Avoid substl toots." And then, aeeing that be could not extract any cksb from MtUe Jim* mle. Mr Baumann deaoended ui?on Maliory, who waa Just tinlahlug bin Bhave. Laying bla hand on Mallory's arm, he began: "ttxeoose, pleass. Can I lit you out vlt a nice divorce?" "Divorce? ? me! ? ttoat'a good,*' laughed Maliory at the vielon of it. Then a sudden Jdea atruck him. It took no great genlua to aee that Mr. Baumann waa not a clergyman, but there were other inarrlera to be bad. "You don't perform marriages, do you?" be asked. Mr. Baumann drew blmaelf up: "Who aaya I don't? Ain't I a Justice of the peaces?" Maliory put out hla hand In wel come: then a new anxiety chilled blm. He had a llcenae for Chicago, but Chicago waa fas away: "Do I need a llcenae In Nevada?" "Why shouldn't you?" aald Mr. Bau mann. "Don't all aorta of things got to have a lloenae in Nevada, galoone, husbands, doga ? " "How could I get one?" Maliory aaked an be went on dreaalng. "Ain't I got a few vlt me? Do you vant to get a nice re-marriage ll cenae V' "Re-marriage ?? hu h ! " he looked r^>und, and, aeeing that no one elae w?? near: "I haven't taken the ttrat atep yet." ? ? Mr. Baumann laved bis bands In one another: "A betchelor? Ah, I aee you vant to marry a nice divorcee lady in R-r-reno?" "She isn't in Reno and she baa never been married, either." This simple statement seemed to astound Mr. Baumann: "A betcheller marry a maiden! ? in Reno} ? ol? oi, oil It haant been done yet, but it might be." Maliory looked htm over and a twinge of distaste disturbed him: "You furnish the llcenae, but ? er ? ah ?la there any chance of a clergyman ? a Christian clergyman ? betng at. the station?" "Vy do you vant it a clolgyman? Can't I do it Just as goal? Or a nice fat alderman I can get y6u?" ?? ; i Maliory pondered: "I don't think abe'd like anything but a clergyman." "Veil," Baumann confessed* "a lady is liable to be particular about her foist marriage. Anyvay I sell you de license. " "All right." % Mr. Baumann whipped out a port folio full of documents, and as be searched them, philosophised : "A man onght always to carry a good max*, rlage license. It might be be should need it in a hurry." He took a largo iron seal from his side-pocket and stamped the paper and tben, with fountain pen poised, pleaded: "Vat la the names, pleass?" "Not so loud!" Maliory whispered, j Baumann put his finger to his nose, ! wisely: "I see, It is a confidential ? marriage. Sit down once." When he had asked Maliory the j necessary questions and taken his fee, he passed over the document by which the sovereign state of Nevada graciously permitted two souls to be made more or less one In the eyes of , the law. , ' "Here you are," said Mr. Baumann. , "Vlt dat you can get married anyyere I In Nevada." i Maliory realised that Nevada would j be a thing of the past in a few houra ; more and he asked: | "It's no good In California?" . n j "Himmel, no. In California you hot* I gotta go and be examined." "Examined!" Maliory gasped, in dire alarm. "Vlt Questions, polssonally," Mtir; Baumann hastened to explain. ! "Oh!" I "In Nevada," Baumann insinuated, ' j still hopeful, MI could mary you my I self ? now, right here." j "Could you marry us in this smok j ing room?" I i "In a cattle car, if you vant it." j "It's not a bad idea," said Mallory. ? "I'll let you know." 1 Seeing Marjorie coming down the i aisle, he hastened to her, and hugged j her good-morning with a new confi dence. 1 Dr. and Mrs. Temple, who had re turned to their berth, witnessed this greeting with amazement. After the quarrel of the night before surely some explanation should have been overheard, but the puzzling Mallorys ilew to each other's arms without a j moment's delay. The mystery was ex j citing the passengers to such a pelnt i that they were vowing to ask a few. J questions point blank. Nobody bad | quite dared to approach either of ! them, but frank curloBlty was prefer* ! able to nervdua prostration, and tbe ' secret could not be kept much longer. Fellow-passengers have some rights. Not even a stranger can be permitted I to outrage their curiosity with lift-' I punlty forever. ifc Seeing them together, Mrs. Temple watched the embrace with her dally renewal of joy that the last night's quarrel bad not proved fatal. Bbe nudged ber husband: "See, they're making up again.** Dr. Temple was moved to a violent outburst for blm: "Well, tbat the darnedest bridal couple? I only said darn, my dear.'* He was still more startled when Mr. Baumann, cruising along tbe aisle, bent orer to mwrpiur: "Can I Hi you a aloe divorcer* ^ *1 ffjg Dr. Temple rose in such u attttjjt of horror as be assumed in tbe pulfl* when denouncing die greatest curse of foctoty. an J" Mr. Baumann retired. As be passed Mallory lie cast an ap preciative glance at Marjorla and, tapping Mallory's shoulder, whispered: "No vonder you want a marriage li cense. I'll be In the next car. should you neet me." Then be went on bis route. Marjorl^ stared after him in won der aud asked: "What did uot person mean by what be said?" "It's all r|gbt, Mforjorle," Mallory explained, in the highest cheer: "We can get married right away." Marjorle declined to get her hopes up again: "You're always saying that." "Hut here's the license ? see?" "What good Is that?" she said; "there's no preacher on board " "But that man is a Justice of the peace and he'll marry ulf. Marjorle stared at him Incredulous ly: "That creature! ? before all these passengers?" "Not at all." Mallory explained. "We'll go Into the smoking room." Marjorle leaped to her feet, aghast: "Elope two thousand miles to be mar ried in a smoking room by a Yiddish drummer! Harry Mallory, you're crazy." Put Just that way, the proposition did not look so alluring as at lirst. He sank back wl)th a sigh: "I guess i am. I resign." ' I . . He was as weary of being "foiled again" as the villain of a cheap melo drama. The two lovers sat In a twi light of deep melancholy, till Mar Jorle'a mind dug up a new source or alarm: "Harry, I've Just thought of some thing terrible." "Let's have it," he sighed, drearily. "We reach San Francisco at mid \ night and you sail at daybreak. What of mat" Mallory had no answer to this prob lem, except a grim: "I'll not desert you." "But we'll have no time to get mar ried." "Then," he declared with iron re golve, "then I'll resign from the army." Marjorle stared at him with awe. He was so wonderful, bo heroic. "But what will the country do without you?" "it will have to get along the best It can," he answered with finality. "1X> you think I'd gtve you up?" But this was too much to ask. In the presence of a ruined career and a heroless army, Marjorle felt that her own scruples were too petty to count She could be heroic, too. "No!" she said, In a deep, low tone, "No, we'll get married in the smoking room. Go call your drummer!" This opened the clouds and let in the sun again with such a radiant ' blnxe that Mallory hesitated no longer, j "Fine!" he cried, and leaped to his | feet, only to be detained again by Marjorle's clutch: "But first, what about that brace let?" "She's got It," Mallory groaned, slumping from the heights again. "Do you mean to say Bhe s still wearing it?" "How was I to get it?" "Couldn't you have slipped into her car last night and stolen It?" | "Good Lord, I shouldn't think you'd want me to go ? why, Marjorle? I'd be : arrested ! " " But Marjorle set her jaw hard: "Well, y&u get that bracelet, or you don't get me." And then her smoul dering jealousy and grler took a less : hateful tone: "Oh, Harry!" she wailed, "I'm so lonely and so helpless j and so far from home." I "But I'm here," he urged. i "You're farther away than any i body," she whimpered, huddling close | to him. | "Poor little thing," he murmured, I soothing her with voice and kiss and i caress. "Put your arm round roe," she cooed, like a mourning dove, "I don't care ^everybody la looking, on, I'm bo loi^y." !. "I'm Just as lonely aa you are," he pleaded, trying to creep Into the com- j pany of her misery. "Please marry me soon," she lm- j plored, "won't you, please?" 1 "I'd .marry you this minute If you'd say the word," ho whispered. "I'd say It if you only had that j bracelet," she sobbed, like a tired j child. "I should think you would un derstand my feelings. That awful per son Is wearing your bracelet and J have only your ring, and her bracelet Is ten times as big as my r-l-ng, boo hoo-hoo-oo ! " "111 get that bracelet If I have tc fehop her arm ofT," Mallory vowed. The sobs stopped short, as Mar Jorle looked up to ask: "Have you got your sword with you?" 'It's In my trunk," he said, "but I'll manage." "Now you're speaking like a sol dier," Marjorle exclaimed, "my brave, noble, beautiful, fearless husband. I'll tell you! Th&t creature will pasa through this car on her way to break fast. You grab her and take the bracelet away from her." "1 grab her, eh?" he stammered, hit heroism wavering a trifle. "Yes, Just grab her." "Suppose she hasn't' the bracelet on?" he mused. "Grab her anyway," Marjorle an swered, fiercely. "Decides, I've no doubt It'i wished on." He aald noth ing. "You did wish It on, didn't you?" "No, no ? never ? of course not ? * be protested. "If you'll only be caltn. Til get It If I have to throttle her.*? Like a young Lady Macbetb, Mar jorte gave htm ber utter approval In any atrocity, and they ?at In ambus? for their victim to paas Into view. They bad not bad tbelr breakfaat, but they forgot It. A dusky waiter went by chanting bla "Lata call f<* breakfusa in Rlnlng Rar." He oh*nt? ft tfcttee in their ears, bvt tfettl never beard. Marjorle gloating over the diacomflture of the odious creature who bad dared to precede her to the acquaintance of ber hus band-to-be. The busband-tobe waa mlaerably wishing tbat be bad to face a tribe of bolo-brandlsblng Moros, In stead of tbla trivial girl whom be had looked upon when ber cbeeka were red. (TO BK CONTINUED) Qr??t Vftut o? r-.'.oknut, The coconut is oci omiy m a source of food and drink ^73 teal oouotrten, but It aUo Ui? u/J tU treed tor shade. in PraUe of Frugality. 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