The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 10, 1912, Image 2
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Cbta?g* a
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jftlgfct fee, **4 wbltfe** fc ?lg*.i r*?.
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F?rUH> k? thoegfet iWr <i?lt?i ;
tt*re*y ? f/v*pad ? totrotf action to ft
**ft*b*gg?*g In CM?f9 ftt
night mm kaowe,
"A* m f ua auk? out wfi? t? .
taM, Ma^y/rle," Ut? tteotiMoajtt pod*
4?red akrsd, "we wftlk atraight pti**A \
till ?? eo?ft to l.'rr.ptywiop atreet, I
a/?d we flod a ftasar* ear tut >
wtfl take oa to tfloptybiop ftveftoe I ?
WrT<rf iU^M (rf any l?<t <1W i
fouT*
ahft panted, a* *be )of- ?
(rMM alongalde bU wlHUrr ?
"L-rt'a take the ftrat /,-ftr we meet, and ?
{^lTi{fl tU conductor eaft pot Oft off ;
at the atreef wb*re lb# rain later j
ttVft?"
"Perhftp*," T here wjh got much j
tn that * p^rhap*,"
When they r?a^ the atreet-cftrred
?treef, they found two t racks, but
r>otiifr>it occupying them, a* far aa
they eocM ^ ?Ub?r way. A arnail
ahopkeeper in ft tiny abop proved to
be a dmt dkftAt no busily
gelling foreign terror* to aliens, tbat
they learned ttoUHtf ftW blm.
At length, In lb# far-away, they
ina4? out a headlight, and Iwwd the :
grind and atyueal K a car. LteuUnant
Mallory waited for ft, watch In hand, i
lie boosted MSTjorUm elbow al>oard
and bombftrdfed tb<u cooduotor with
q*f*M 'Xiftup.. But Itwi cooduetAr ha4 no
tnofft heard of their #tr??t than tbey
had of bJ* Their agitation did not
dtatrirb bin atol'. *'.n\\n, but he tnrited
them to coiiffe along to th? next croaa
InK. whtre tb*y could find another car
and more J earned conductornj or,
what proiwlJWfd p^rbapti a cab.
fie threw . Marjorlft Into a panic by.
ordering her to Jcrtiieon HUoo/Jcumii,
a rn ^ 1 1 price, aTid ovcrJoolfed the fact
that be did net r\nr, up their rareM.
The young coupl*- ?iueexe*i Into a
peat and Ulkcl am loudly In ubarp
whlspent.
?^Voaldn't It be terrible, Harry, ir,
Juut uh 'a?) v/> t to the Ujtt\iaU;r'H, n*s
Mh'Mild ilnd papa tn#re ahead of un,
waiting to forbid the bandM, or what
ever It l?? Wouldn't It be Jufct ter
rible?"
"Yen, It would, honey, but It
doean't nccm probable. There are
thou?ST;djj of mlnlntcnt In Chicago.
He could never Ilnd our*. Fact la, 1
doTibt ff we Hitd l?l"? ouraelvua."
Her clutch tightened till ho would
have winced, if he had not' been a
ftoldler.
"What do you mean, Harry?"
"Well, In th p. f I r h t place, honey, look
what time It Ik. Hardly more than
time to get the train, to way nothing
of huntliiK for that pretuher and
Mtandlng up through a long rigma
role'^
?hy, Harry Mftllory, are you got
lug ready to Jilt ino?"
"Indeed I'm not ? not for worldn,
honey, hut I've got to get that train,
haven't. I?"
"Couldn't you wait over one train?
Junt one tiny little train?"
"My own, own honey love, you
know I L'h lrnpo*Klbl?! You muat re
member that I've already waited over
three traltyx while you trlwl to make
up your mind."
"And you rauHt remember, darling,
that I t'n no pany matter Tor a glrJ to
decide to nneak itway from home and
' be married necretly. and ko all tha
way out to that hld<-oufl Manila with
no troiiHfloau and no woddlng prea?
enta and no anything."
"I know It iHnt, and I waited pa
tiently while you got up th? courage.
But now there aro no more trnlnw. 1
ahuddor to think of thla train being
late. We're not due In Han Fran
claco till Tburadfty evening, and my
tranaport aalla at aunrlae Friday morn
the Oh. Lord, what If 1 ahould mlaa
that tranaport! What If I ahould P
"What if we ahould mlaa the rain*
latarr
"It beglna to look a great deal like
"But; Harry, you wouldn't deaert
ma now? abandon me to my fate?"
"Wall, it lan't exactly Ilka abandon*
noent, aeelng that yoo oould go bona
to your father and mother la a taxi
''at. (Ur?d M him la horror.
you Ml want ma tot roar
i ifTtS: ? ':;y>v,. , . . "?'?so. j - i -
r??? rtifH MM!
Y??r* tfcretf ? CWy a* I
fewr U|XW/ **4 r?Tw *fc ?f jot.
fce/gftto: Tui'rt MyllM H? ???? *14 ??
*<J*r kUHf, I wi
Mftfafatc *ft?e 0? OCTf*, IM I'M ft!
widter, otiit, * Mmmn
tJU r??rtw *my, ?M I'm Ufa#
tA tbe |?*?lMfcett !'*?
W|X FtMt. U4 (Mr vttt
?ii> rM^Mtate/ est* U I A4, w?ra
etftrre. ^Tbey
rMlfMOo*, tot UM>f4 to ?ttdf (o
??ttaifflil ?# Mi ll<WiH (MrlTfM*;
tk Mok* li dlecrace Tht? r<
vMiito't ??m to muuif mm >?< f
alv/sMt't l?f* my ?*y of
y?* U yum did, f eat y know ^
trade, mmd that'*
"Dom't call It ft t rmdm, Uknmd, Wm
the Bobtext profeemkm tm all tbe
worid, ft?d you're ifc? nobW*t soldier
UW ever wft?, *ad to ft ftmH or two
you'll be tbe M?Mt fCMnl to the
arsey,"
H? eoeld sot iflortf to shatter MKfe
m derovt itoutUm of quench tin WM
of faltb to those belated and loving
eyes tie tacitly mdm Itted hie ability
to U promoted cwnnftBdef'ixbUf to
ft year or two, Me allowed Uiat glit
tering possibility to remain, used it
m a basis for argument.
~Tben, dearest, yon must belp m?
to do tor duty."
gbe clapped bto upper arm aft It It
were an altar and a be an ipblgenla
about to be sacrificed to aftre tbe
army. And she murmured wltb utter
heroism : V * m,
"I will! Do wbftt you like wltb
ibe!"
Ho squeezed ber band between bla
biceps and bla ribs and accepted tbe
offering In m look drenched with grat
itude. Then be said, matter-offac*!/:
"We'll aee bow much time we hare
when we get to ? whatever the nemo
of that atreet la."
The car jolted and wailed ?? i*a
,.;way like an old drifting rocking
1 chair. Tbe motorman was In no bur
ry. Tbe passengers seemed to bave
no occasion for baate. Homebody got
r on or got off at aimoat every corner,
! and paused for convocation while
I tbe car waited patiently. Hut eventu
i ally the condu ctor put bis bead in and
t drawled:
"Hay! Here'a where you get. off
at."
Th#-y hastened to debark and found
themselves In a narrow, gaudily light
ed region where they Raw a lordly
transfer-distributor, a profound scbol
ar in Chicago utreeta. He Informed
them that ? the minister'* wtreet lay
fur back along , the path they had
come; they should have taken a ear
In the opposite direction, transferred
at Home remote center, descended at
*orne unheard-of Htreet, walked three
blocks one way and four another, and
there they would bave been.
Mallory looked at his watch, and
Marjorle's hopes dropped like a
wrecked aeroplane, gor he grimly
asked bow long It would take them to
reach the railroad station.
"Well, you'd ought to make It In
forty mlnntcH," the transfer agent
said ? and added, cynically, "if tbe car
mnfcru schedule/'
"Good Ix>rd. tbe train starts In
twenty minute*!"
"Well, I tell you ? take this here
green car to Wexford avenoo ? there's
usually a taxlcab or two standln
there."
"Thank you. Hop on, Marjorle."
Marjorie hopped on, and tbey sat
down. Mallory with and thoughts
on nothing but the watch he kept In
bis hand
During this tense Journey the girl
pfcifected her soul with graceful
martyrdom.
"I ll go to the train with you, Hai>
ry, and then you can ?end me home
In a taxlcah."
Her nether lip trembled and her
eyes were filmed, but they were brave,
and her voice wan so tender that it
wooed bin mind from his watch. He
gazed at her, and found hef so dear,
ho demoted and so pitifully exquisite,
that he was alino*t overcome by an
impulse to gather her Into his arm?
there and then, indlfforent to the im
mediate passengers or to his far-off
military superiors. An hour ago they
wero young lovers in all the lilt and
thrill of elopement. She had clung to
him In the gloaming of their taxlcab,
as It sped like a genie ftt their whim
to tho place where tho ^ minister
would unite their hsndft and ralee hlft
own in blessing. Thenco the new
husband would hare carried tbe new
wife away, bto raty own, jool and_
body, duty and beauty. Than,' ah#
then in their minds the future wa? an
'unwanlng honeymoon, the Journey
across the continent, a ? troll along a
lover's lane, the Pidflo oo'ofttt a |WS
den lake, ?nd the Philippines 'A chftln
of Fortunate Islee decreed dtpectolUr
for their Eden. And then the tftXl
cftb encountered ft lamppotf. Tbey
thought they bed merely wrecked a
motor car? and lo, tbey lu* wrecked
a Pftredlse.
~lt'a * m?mn oM world. taTt HT*
~Awf?i!~
A&4 then tlicr MMt |fl* o?t Into
tk* atrMt mis so lost fen worn ttut
tier 414 not kaov bow tkcr vere
train pled or ?Oov(4< Marjories <i<
?pairwufptooptdc that ttfaftlyt^
instinct Sko forgot ftworiniw! A
thoughtful p? iitnir raa oet and!
towtd the b*?iwt into MaUorrt tm*
even as the ear moved oC.
FortflM reiwttd a mooxat and
they found a tajricab watting where
they bad expected to find it- ^pcc?
more they were coey In the iBying
twilight, but their grief wan their
only t&gg^ge, and the claap of their
hands talked all the talk there was.
Ansl etr within anxiety tormeatea
them and they feared snofhar wreck .
But as they swooped dm s|?R th?
station, a kind-faced tower dock
beamed the reassurance that they
bad three minutes to sf?re.
The taxlcab drew up and halted,
bnt they did not get oat. They were
kissing good-byes, fervidly md nu
merously, while a grinning atatlcwv
porter winked at the winking cfeanr
fear.
~MarJorle simply eould not bare
done with farewell*. - ?'? "
"I'll go to the gate with yon," she
said. " :v'
lie told the chauffeur to wait and
take the young lady home. The" lieu
tenant looked so honest and the -Ctrl
so sad that the chauffeur simply
touched bis cap, tbougb It was not
bin custom to allow strange fares to
vanish Into crowded stations, leaving
behind nothing more negotiable than
Inntructlons to wait.
CHAPTER IV.
A Mouse and a Mountain, . ?
All -the *WI? the foiled eloperrf
were eloping, the San Francisco
sleeper wan filling up. It had been
the receptacle of assorted lots of hu
( rnanity tumbling Into It from all dl
i rectlons, with all sorts of souls, bodies
1 and destinations.
The porter received each with that
j expert eye of his. His car was bis
laboratory. A railroad^ Journey is a
sort of test-tubi?f&f character; strange
elements meet under strange condK
lions and make strange combination*.
The porter could never foresee tbe
Ingredients of any trip, nor their ao^-j
tions and reactions.
lie had no sooner established Mr,.
Wedgewood of London and Mr. Ira
Lathrop of Chicago, In comparative
repOfce, than his car was Invaded by
a woman who flung herself into the
first seat. She was flushed with run
ning, and breathing bard, but she
managed one gasp of relief: j
"Thank goodness, T made It in
time."
The mere sound of a woman's voloe
In tbe seat back of him was enough
to disperse Ira Latbrop. With not 00
much as a glance backward to see
what manner of woman It might be,
ho jammed his contract into his pock'
et. seized his newspapers and retreatr
ed to tbe farthest end of the caiy
bouncing down into berth number onet
like a sullen snapping turtle.
Miss Anne Gattle's modest and
homely v&llse had been brought
aboard by a leisurely station usher,
who set It down and waited with ft
speaking palm outstretched. She had
ber tickets In her hand, but trans
ferred them to her teeth while she
searched for money In a handbag old
fashioned enough to be called a ret*
cule.
The nsher closed his flat on the pit
tance she dropped into It and depart
ed without comment. The porter ad
vanced on her with a demand for
'Tickets, please."
She began to ransack her retlcuW
with flurried haste, taking out of it Jr
email purse, opening th at, closing It*
putting ft back, taking it out, search
in# the reticule through, turning out
a handkerchief, a few hairpins, a fslh
trunk keys, a , baggage cheek, a baK
tie 0 1 salts, a card or two and nu
merous other maidenly articles,
storing them 10 placet looking in
parte agsin* restoring that,
the reticule, setting It down,
out a book
M!m aim GMt^ wttH prts tMlttj.
*Xo, ttelfc 7??- I totaMl to ?U Bp
till ererjrtedr ?iw kM nUrtC*
TW porter rtdrW. XJhs Gtttk
took ??t ? bit of or In* ? nfiii
fajwr siitfUaf u4 Mt to pork ttk?
>toU?f Dortfeft. Her Maxtor Itl Ml
(tired In ad wrgtd mv tfirw be
fore tW ?u fcoMfin ttiput ??ip
on of 4ff?M against A roddee jb?>
Btt tlat tfcrreteaed to
crwfli b?r.
A nfse mad tec*, base and red
a* a rittee moo?. dawned before ber
Mr?, Jlmmie Wellington.
eye# and from it came an uncertain j
voice:
"feHscuzhe me, mad'm, no 'fensh in
tended."
The words and the breath that car
ried them gave the startled spinster
an instant proof that her vis-a-vis did
not share her prohibition principles
or practices. Sh*> regarded the ele
phant with mouse-like terror, and the
elephant regarded the mouse with
elephantine fright, then he removed
himself from her landscape as quick
ly as he could and lurched along the
aisle, calling out merrily to the por
ter: r
"Chauffeur! chauffeur; don't go so
fasht 'round these corners."
He collided with a small train-boy
singing his nasal lay, but it was the
behemoth and not the train-boy that
collapsed into a seat, sprawling as
helplessly as a mammoth oyster on a<
table-cloth.
The porter rushed to his aid and
hoisted him to hi* feet with an un
easy sense of Impending trouble. He
felt as If someone had left a mon
strous baby on his doorstep, but all
he said was:
"Tickets, please."
J There ensued a long search, fat,
flabby hands flopping and fumbling
from pocket to pocket. Once more
the porter was the discoverer.
"I flee It. Don't look no mo'. Here
It is ? up In yo' hatband." He lirted
It out and chuckled. "Had It right
next his brains and couldn't remem
ba!" He took up the appropriately
huge luggage of the bibulous wan
derer and led him to the other end of
the aisle. -
"Nudiba two Is yours, sah. Right
heah ? all nice and cosy, and already
made up."
The biff man looked through the
curtains into the -cabined confinement,
and groaned:
"That! Haven't you got a man's
SUa berth?"
"6orr?. ?S|L- That's as big a bunk
as they is <m I S* train." ~
"Have I got to be looked up in thdt
pigeon-hole for?tor how many days
is it to RenoT"
"Reno r The porter ffreet*0 that
Meaningful name with a smile. "We*ra
doo is R*n6 the ? the ? mawnln' of
the fo\'b "IT. fab. Yassah." He put
the baggage down and started away*
but the fat idu atlitd bis with
!?c 1" w"C?ri
Wl w ?*? m M WW
D*y to tWHte ? ' BH It
cmW MX ri? Ilur vtet ?? ty wpm*
mmd hi voaM tow ??m< ?C <o
4m?. if tototf boi U?a ?hrm lr
* hirttor fok* vttfdl (to pprt?r to4
tacfcMy ; . /
*Pi?ik! rwrnh! Cut yoa rate*
tM? or nttor on't jam tonr
It? Ftvuli! TU? Mflt to oo Ift
U*9*Oj 4to l cat nM.* *
To tto emcttduMa't lifiwriMii
Mat Mi call Imifct to kin oot tto
j>ofMr, tot * rtoac bom vttfli tto
( ?'pWCoaBi 4PMM7"
"Wteat ? ttl *f? lifbt,
vto? tto UsM of foot Ufo tos com
ootr*
-I bee Tow ptrtotr
Without further mvttadoa. Om
moumU on tte
Mft't territory .
Tb a ivoktn^Miitd bW, Mr. ?
Mr.? I didn't get four mum."
"Br ? All ? I djure ?ay."
-Thanks, I will stt Iowa." He lift
ed a great carry-all tod airily toaeed
It teto the aiale, set the Gladstone
am the lay of the Infuriated Knglisb
qka, and squeezed Into the aeat op
posite, making a fad mlx-up of knee*.
**My name's Wellington. Kref hear
<tf 111 Jlmmle Wellington! That's
ma."
"Any relation to the Duke?"
"Nagh!w
- He no longer Interested Mr. Wedge
wood. But Mr. Wellington was not
aware that be waa being snubbed. He
want right on getting acquainted:
"Are you married, Mr- ? Mr. ? f
? "Nor . j- ? i
"My heartfelt coograahlatlpn*.
Hang on to your luck, my boy. Don't
let any female take it away from you."
He slapped the- Engllabman on the
elbow amiably, and his prisoner was
too stilled with wrath to emit mora
than one feeWe "Pawtah!"
Mr. Wellington muaed on aloud:
"Ob, If 1 bad only remained single.
But she was so beautiful and she
swore to lore, honor and obey- Mrs.
Wellington Is a queen among women,
mind you, and I bare nothing to say
against ber except that ahe has the
temper of a tarantula." He italicised
| the word with a ligfet fillip of bis left
hand along the back of* the seat. He
did not notice that he filliped the
angry head of Mr. Ira'l^athrop in the
next seati He went on with his por
trait of his . wife. "Bhe has the
'stravaganza of a sultana" ? another
fillip for Mr. Lathrop ? "the zhealousy
of a cobra, the flirtatiousness of a
humming bird." Mr. Iiafhrop was glar
ing round like a man-eating tiger, but
Wellington talked on. "She drinks,
swears and smoke* cigars, otherwise
she's fine ? a queen among women."
Neither this amazing vision of wom
ankind, nor this beautiful example of
longing for confession and sympathy
awakened a response in the English'
man's frozen bosom. His only action
was another violent effort to disengage
his cramped knees from the knees of
bis tormentor; his only comment a
vaifi~ and -weakening, cry for help,
"Pawtah! Pawtah!"
Wellington's bleary, teary eyeB were
lighted with triumph. "Finally I Baw
I couldn't stand it any longer so I
bought' a tio-hic-et to Reno. I 'stab1
llsh a reaidensh in six monfths ? get a
divorce ? no shcandal. Even m'own
wife won't know anything about it."
The Englishman was almost attract
ed by this astounding picture of the
divorce laws in America. It sounded
sa barbarically quaint that he leaned
forward to hear more, but Mr. Welling
ton's hand, like a mischievous run
away, had wandered back into the
shaggy looks atop of Mr. Lathtop. His
right hand did not let his left know
what it was doing, but proceeded quite
independently to grip as much of
Lathrop's hair as It would hold.
Then as Mr. Wellington shook with
Joy at the prospect of "Dear old.
Reno!" he began unconsciously to
draw Ira Lathrop's head after his hair
across the seat. The pain of it shot
the tears Into Lathrop's eyes, and as
l)e writhed and twisted he was too
full of profanity to get any one word
out
When lie managed to wrench his
skull free, he was ready to murder his
tormentor. But as soon as he con*
fronted the doddering and blinking
tope{, he was helplesa. Drunken men
hav? always been treated with great
tenderness In America, and when Weir
llngton, seeing Lathroyt white hair,
exclaimed with rapture: "Why, hello.
Pop! here's Pop!" the most that Lath
rop could db wa* to tear loose those
fat, groping hands, slap them H)te a
school teacher, and posh the man
*Bnt that dn* shot* np^ firTW*
llngton And sent him toppling down
upon the pit of the Englishman's stom
For Wedgewood, It W?s suddenly as
If all the air had been removed from
tha world. Jfe gulped Ilk* a fish
drowning for lack of He was a
Ion* while getting breath enough tor
. ry^JlLSU!!1* _wofms i we*f
Tit naeflr ?asa* o?t with ?
snap. He QM to echo it, T**
"I tatW that Tferop. t|i
kind of a ieidc> ???, isn't hr
log the newspaper still interred
tween him and Wo prey, he <
.tore R down the Middle u4 |
through it like a moon coming Q
t cloud. "B it a men cant dp
name by marrying, can he? :'i
of a hesrtlias cobr? <H eepellsfra
an'i form wearing my fair mi? j
wearing it oat. Mr. Le-throp, $4 j
ever pot year trust in a ftitri^r
woman V VHH
"Nerer pot my tract in sayfcdj
"Didn't you ?w lore a voenf
"Ko!"
"Well, .then, didn't you ever suir
womanr ]
"Hot one. r*e had the messiest
the mumpe, bat Pre never hid m
mony." ''vJaS
"Oh , tacky man," beamed Vl
ton . "Hang on to your luck."
"I intend to/* aaid Lathrop, 1 1
born single and I tike It."
"Oh, how I envy you! Yoa i
Mrs. Wellington ? she's a queeaaj
women,, mind you ? a qqeen m
women, but die baa the 'strstRjg
of a?'*
Lathrop bad endured all h* oo
endure, even from a privileged dm
ter like little Jimmy Wellington,
rose io take refuge in the atgi
room. But the very vigor of this
parture only served to help Wefl
ton to his feet, for be seised lathn
coat ' and hung on. throughthe*
down the little corridor, ataiij
plaining:
"Mrs. Wellington ig^a queen aa
women, mifad you, but I cant ah
her temper any longer."
He had hardly squeeaed into
smoking-room when the porter aai
usher almost invisible under the!
gage they carried brought in * l
passenger. Her first question vai
"Oh, porter, did a box of flowed
candy, or anything, come for mef
"What name would they he /
miss?"
"Mrs. Wellington ? Mrs. James 1
liogton."
(TO . BE CONTINUED)
We have just install
in our shop one of j
largest and .finest lad
ever brought to Cami
and are now prepaitq
do any kind o( {fl
work on engines angl
chiriery of all kinds. I
V^. O. Hay, who has I
years of experience i toi
land ofjwork, is] with
and he will be glad
have his friends to call
him. ? ?: ? WM