Show SWIFT retribution how a husband was suddenly imposed so long as women will ie foolish men will bo deceptive one day I 1 sat behind a couple on an ohio mississippi train and it ten minutes before I 1 discovered that tho girl was a village belle who knew nothing of the world and that her companion was a traveler abo saw in her a victim several others noticed them as well but it was hard to see how any thing could he done says a writer in the new york sun iio professed great admiration for the girl and she blushingly queried but how do I 1 know you are not a married man oh but I 1 assure you on my honor that I 1 am not where do you live in louisville and you have neither wife nor children no at that instant the conductor camo in with a telegram and called out the address for me said the man in the seat ahead it was handed to him and he was smiling as he tore it open next moment he fell forward in a heap and rolled into the aisle in a dead faint half a dozen of us including the girl read the dispatch it was dated at indianapolis di and read your wife and baby burned up with the house last night come at once it took us a quarter of an hour to bring him to and it was half an hour later when he left the train he had forgotten the girl who shared his seat and she was crouched down and crying like a baby |