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byes as it they wars hoping to^store op honey enough to sustain their hearts for a three years' fast. And the porter was studying them with perplexity. Me was used, however, to waking people out of dreamland, and he be? gan to fear that If he were discovered spying on the lovers, he might sur? fer. So he coughed discreetly three or four times. 8lnce the Increasing racket of the train made no effect on the two hearts beating aa one. the sutall matter of a cough was as nothing. Finally the porter was compelled to reach forward and tap Mallory's arm, and stutter: ".'Scuse me. but co-could I git b-by?" The embrace was untied, and the lovers stared at blm with a dazed, where-am I? look. Marjorie was the first to realize what awakened them. She felt called upon to say something, so she eald. as carelessly as If she had not Just emerged from a young gentleman's arms. "Oh, porter, how long before tbe train starts?" "Train's done started. Missy." This simple statement struck the | wool from her eyee atd tbe cotton from her ears, and ehe was wide enough awake wben she cried: "Oh, , stop it?stop itr j Thafe mo'n I can do, Missy." the ; Sorter expostulsted. Then Til Jump off." Marjorie j sowed, making a dasn for the door. But the porter filled the narrow path, and wared her back. "Vestibule's done locked up? trains going llckety epllt." Feeling that be had ssfsly checkmated any rashness, the porter equeezed past tho dumbfoundel pair, and went to change his blue blouee for the white coat of bis chambermaldenly duties. Mallory's first wondering thought was a rapturous feeling that circum? stances had forced his dream Into a reality. He thrilled with triumph: "You've got to go with me now." "Tee?I've got to go." Marjorie aa sonted meekly; "then, sublimely, "It's fata Kismet!" They clutched each other again In a fiercely blissful hug. Marjorie came back to earth with a bump: "Are you really sure there's a minister on hoardr "Pretty sure," esld Mallory, sober? ing a trifle. "But you eald you were sure?" "Well, wben you say you're eure, that means you're not quite sure," It was not an entire!} satisfactory justification, and Marjorie began to quake with atarm: "Suppose there ehouldn't be?" "Oh, then." Mallory answered care ? ?*?>?#.-??? Y**r,rsA *~ he one to mo'iow." Mr- 20 the enor a en and tbe morrow, and she gasped "Tomorrow! Tfl tflwtr fftit of tbe wltdow." MaMory c*uld prevert thst but wbj|n so?* plead* d. "What shall we do. pa had* no solution to offer Again it was "ho mho received tbe trat Inspiration. "I hsrs It," she beamed. "Tea, MarjorieV ho assented, du? biously "We'll pretend not to bo married st all" Ho seized the rescuing ladder: "That's HI Not married?just Mends." "Till we can get. married?" "Tee. and than we ean stop being friends." "My love?my friend!" They em braced in a most unfriendly manner. An Impatient yelp from the neg? lected dog-basket awoke them. "Oh, Lord, we're brought Snoozle ums." "Of course we have." She took the dog from the prison, tucked him un? der her arm. and tried to compose her bridal face Into a merely friendly countenance before they entered the car. But she must pause for one more kiss, one more of tnose bitter-sweet good-byes. And Mallory was nothing loath. Hudson and Shaw were still glumly perplexed, when the porter returned In his white Jacket. "1 bet they missed the train; all this work for nothing," Hudson grum? bled But Shaw, seeing the porter, caught a gleam of hope, and asked anxiously: "Say, porter, have you seen any? thing anywhere that looks like a fresh? ly married pair?" "Well." and the porter rubbed his oyee with the back of his hand as he chuckled, "well, tbey's a mighty lov la' couple out theah In the corridor." "That's them?they?it" Instantly everything was aitve and In action. It was as If a bugle had shrilled In a dejected camp. "Get ready!" Shaw commanded. "Here's rice for everybody." "Everybody take i n old shoe," said Hudson. "You can't miss In this nar? row car." "There'e a kazoo for everyone, too." eald Shaw, se the outstretched hands were equipped with wedding ammuni? tion "Do you know ths Wedding March'r "I ouirH -II Mrs. Whitcomb. Right Into th) t Ogle of prepara? tion, old lra Lath. ;? ? m k.-u, on his way back to bis seat to get more cigars. "Hare somo rice for the bridal couple?" said Ashtou, offering him ol bis own double handful But Lathrop brushed him aside with a romance-hater's growl. "Watch out for your head, tb*?n," erted Hudson, and Lnthrop ducked just too late to estate a neck tilling, hair (Illing showor. \u old shoe took aha i clip abaft the ear, and the o!u w jinan-hater dropped raging into the same berth where the spinster, Anne Oattle, was trying to dodge the same downpour. Still there ans enough of the shrapnel left to .overwhelm the two young "friends," who marched into the aisle, Dying to look Indifferent and prepared for nothing on earth less level for u wedding charivari. Malleiy should have done better than to entrust his plans to fellows like Hudson und Shaw, whom he bad known at West Point Tor diabolically Joyous hazers and practical jokers. Even as he sputtered rice and winced from the Impact of flying footgear, he was cursing himself as a double dyed idiot for asking tuen men to en? gage his berth for blm. He had a sudden instinct that they had doubt? less tedecked his trunk and Mar Jorle's with white satin furbelows and ludicrous labels. But he could not shelter himself from the white sleet and the black thumps. He could hardly shelter Marjorle, who cowered behind him and shrieked even loud? er than the romping tormentors. When the assailants had exhausted the rice end shoes, they charged down the aisle for the privilege of kissing the bride. Mallory was dragged and bunted and shunted here and there, and he had to fight hla way back to Marjorle with might and main. He was tugging and striking like a demon, and yelling, "Stop it! stop it!" Hudson took hla punishment with uproarious good nature, laughing: "Oh, shut up, or we'll kiss you!" But Shaw was scrubbing his wry Hps with a seasick wall of: "Wow! I think I kissed the dog." There was, of necessity, some pause for breath, and the combatants draped themselves limply about the seats. Mallory glared at the twin Benedict Arnolds and demanded: "Are you two thugs going to San Francisco with me?" "Don't worry," smiled Hudson, : "we're only going as far as Kedzle | avenue, Just to start the honeymoon j properly." | If either of the elopers had been calmer, the solution of the problem would have been simple. Marjorle could get off at this suburban station and drive home from there. But their , wits were l'ke pied type, and they < were further jumbled, when Shaw broke in with a sudden: "Come, see the little dove-cote we fixed for you." Before they knew it, they were both haled along the aisle to tho white satin atrocity. "Love in a bungalow," said Hudson. "Sit dows*?make your? selves perfectly at home." - "No?never?oh, oh, oh!" cried Mar Jorie. darting away and throwing j herself into the first empty seat?Ira Latbrop's berth. Mallory followed to ! console her with caresses and mur- ; murs of. 'There's there, don't cry, dearie P .dson and Shaw followed close with mawkish mockery: "Don't cry, <.>orle." I id now Mrs Temple Intervened, ghe had enjoy od the initiation cere? mony as well as anyone. But when the little bride began to cry. she re membered the pitiful terror and shy shame she bad undergone as a girl wife, and she hastened to Marjorie'a side, brushing the men away like gnats. "Ton poor thing," she comforted. "Come, my child, lean on me, and nave a gooo cry. Hudaon grinned, and put out his own arms: "She can lean on me, if she'd rather." Mrs. Temple glanced up with Indig? nant rebuke: "Her mother is far away, and she wants a mother's breast to weep on. Here's mine, my dear." The impudent Shaw tapped his own military chest: "She can use mine." Infuriated at this bride-baiting, Mal? lory rose and confronted the two Imps with clenched fists: "You're a pretty pair of friends, you are!" The imperturable Shaw put out a pair of tlcketa as his only defense: "Here are your tickets, old boy." And Hudson roared jovially: "We tried to get you a stateroom, but It was gone." "And here are your baggage checks," laughed Shaw, forcing Into his fists a few pasteboards. "We got your trunks on the train ahead, all right. Don't mention It?you're entirely welcome." It was the porter that brought the first relief from the ordeal. "If you gemmen is gettin' off at Kedzle avenue, you'd better step smart. We'^ slowln' up now." Marjorle as sobbing too audibly to hear, and Mallory swearing too ln ' audibly to heed the opportunity Ked? zle evenuo offered. And Hudson was yelling: "Well, gooo-bye, old boy and old girl Sorry we cant go all the way." He had the effrontery to try to kiss the bride good-bye, and Shaw was equally bold, but Mallory's fury enabled him to beat them off. He elbowed and shouldered them down the aisle, and sent after them one of his own shoes. But it just missed Shaw's flying coattalle. Mallory stood glaring after the de? parting traitors. He was glad that they at least were gone, till he real? ized with a sickening slump in bis vitals, that they bad not taken with them bis awful dilemma. And now the train wai one* m cT!ckat*> clicking Into the Bight and Iba N est. CHAPTER X. Excess Bsggaye. Never was a young soldier so stumped by a problem In tactics at: Lieutenant Harry Mallory. safely aboard his train, and not daring to leave It, yet hopelessly unaware* of how h?? was to dispose of his lovely but unlahelled bnggago. Hudson and Shaw had erected a white satin temple tr? Hymen In berth number one, bad created such commo? tion, and departed In auch confusion, that there had beon no opportunity to proclaim that he and Marjorie were "not married!?juiit friends." And now the passengers had ac? cepted them as that enormous fund of amusement to any train, a newly wed? ded pair. To explain the mistake would have been difficult, even among friends. But among strangers?well, perhaps a wiser and a colder brain than Harry Mallory's could have stood there and delivered a brief ora? tion restoring truth to her pedestal. But Mallory was In no condition tor auch a stoic delivery. He mopped his brow In agony, lost In a blizzard of bewilderment He drifted back toward Marjorie, half to protect and half for companionship. He found Mrs. Temple cuddling her closo and mothering her as if she were a baby Instead of a bride. "Did the poor child run away and get married?" Marjorie's frantic "Boo-hoo-hoo** might have meant anything. Mrs. Temple took it for assent, and mur? mured with glowing reminiscence: "Just the way Doctor Temple and 1 did." gha could not see the leaping flash of wild hope that lighted up Mallory's face. She only heard his voice across her shoulder: "Doctor? Doctor Temple? Is your husband a reverend doctor?" "A reverend doctor?" the little old lady repeated weakly. "Yes?a?a preacher?" The poor old congregation-weary soul was abruptly confronted with the ruination of all the delight in her lit? tle escapade with her pulpit-fagged husband. If she had ever dreamed that the girl who was weeping in her arms was weeping from any other fright than the usral fright of young brides, fresh from the preacher's ben? ediction, she would have cast every other consideration aside, and told the truth. But her husband's last behest be? fore he left her had been to keep their precious pretend-secret. She felt?Just then?that a woman's first duty is to obey her husband. Besides, what business v/as it of this young husband's what her old husband's business was? Before she had fairly begun to debate her duty, almost auto, matlcally, with the instantaneous In? stinct of self-protection, her lips had Uttered the denial: "Oh?he's?Jnst a?plain doctor. There he Is now." tTO BE CONTINUED) Mail Carriers Will My, This \h an age of great discover Progress rides on the air. Soon s/e may see Unodle Bom's mall car lets flying In nil directions, trans? porting mall. 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Thomps< JEWELED I Ml OPTICI A Condemnation Jury Drawn. Thii morning in the e< unty clerk's office n Jury was drawn in the condemn ition proc< edings gainst Mr. J. x.' Phillips. Condemnation proceeding wer?? taken out some time ago ; nd the hearing will take place <?n the 12th <f July before tie Jury which wa?i drawn today. The proceedings were taken out for tight of way of 11 ie Carolina Western Rail? road through Mr. Phillips' - lace on the northern edge <? the city, Those on tin- Jury are; W, S. Reames, W. R, Du Dose, J. W. Bradfard, J. r. Jenkins. if t. Edens, Singleton Bradford, .1. M. Brogdon, T, H. Clarke. S. A. Harvln, Willie Shaw, A. C. Thompson, w. B. Segars. Insect Bite Cost* Leg, A Boston man lost his I,-.? from the bite of an Insect two years i>? (ore. To avert such calamities from stingy and bites of inserts use Bucklen's Arnica .-aha- promptly t<. kill the poison and prevent Infiamatlon, swelling and pain. Heals b urns. ia?i'.s, ulcers, pile?. eczema, cuts, bruises, Only -?" cents at Sibert's i h a * Btore. At a meeting of the committee on Friday It was decided to have the \V. 11. W. picnic at Cain's Mill on July 24th. All of the Woodmajn and their families will be present and a big Dine is expected. Dysentery is always serious and "f ten a dangerous disease, but it can be cured. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has '.?tired it even when malignant and ?pidemic, For sate by all dealers. Every day and night now many citizens Interested in the political sit? uation hang around Sibert's Drug Store waiting for the latest bulletins Crom tin- National Convention at Baltimore. The bulletins are always re< eived with interest. * Georg? f. Higbie, Manton, Mich., ised Poley Kidney Pills for kidney and bladder trouble. He says: "1 find for my case no other medicine tquale Foley Kidney Pills for bene? ficial effect." 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(7) Several handsome Brick Residences being erected, in add-ltion to a number of smaller dwellings thrDUghout the city. Investments in real estate made with judgment, in a growing city are tne surest and most profitable investments to be had. We are offering some good propositions in business property. Write for list of offerings. COY PROPERTY tt\ T% D~1?^? /"> ^ real estate loans FARMS K K tlGlSCr IjO. mortgages ahb v MBER LAND AV* S-SV'AwJVrX ^KJ* investments 261-2N.Main St HFAL ?*??!? naum Sumter, S. C. R. B. BEL8ER. ERNEST FIELD. Is calling you.?trie turf, the music, all cry out for you to EottOSB life crowd. The ATLANTIC COAST LINE has provided the schedules and rates, beginning Saturday, June 1st, to continue during (lie season. TO CHARLESTON For all trains of SoturdS) and m ornlng trains of Sunday, I tail ted to return until Titeedoy mid-nlglM following. For any Information, call on, T. C. WHITE, General Pa**engor Auen:. Wilmington, V C, o. \ . PI.A1 ER. Ticket tccut.