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I ig N By Clive Marshall MarshallO 1 HENRY wrote a story entitled The O Romance of a Busy Broker It had to todo todo do with an overworked business man a pretty stenographer different from the usual ind a and a poor memory Some called it one of the 4 story writers writer's best life pictures Others de declared it seemingly incredible It could never have happened the latter asserted So rema remained ned this mooted q question estion of 0 o. Henrys Henry's fidelity to human traits until Ensign Glenn T. T Aldrich U. U T. T S. S N. N settled the thing definitely a few d days ago by proving the truth of 0 O. Henrys Henry's fiction He lie made a ply four-ply testimonial to the writers writer's genius for truthful imagination als also Only the ensigns ensign's memory being four times as poor as the tho fiction characters character's he be now is In ja jail Charge passing worthless checks place of confinement Portland Ore Ensign Aldrich married Miss Lillian Dombrow Dombrow Dom- Dom brow of Oak Park Chicago Then he wed Miss Esther Carlson of the same city He was perfectly perfectly per per- perfectly guileless In iIi the whole matter He will tell teU you so BO You see it was all aU done under the spell of a marrying jag And his excuse is quite ingenuous In fact it is simplicity itself He merely forgot he was married to Miss Dombrow when he be went with Miss Carlson to Great Fall FaU Mont and got a parson to tie the knot He says so BO His memory is so poor that he cant can't even ven recall the tho names of two New York girls he heis heis heis is said to have wed before he met the Chicago young women Details of the metropolitan ceremonies ceremonies cere- cere monies are wholly lacking He just cant can't recall their names that's all So SoN So N No 3 and No 4 are earnestly aiding the Chica Chicago o prosecutor in his effort to locate No 1 and No 2 Incidentally a number of men are curious t to to discover the sour source e of that whiskey which caused such a consoling floss loss of memory Many and many a married man would like to get some of that stuff a wit said when he read the ensigns ensign's statement which was Wedded Twice in Nine Days DaysI I 1 was drunk In m the peculiar seemingly sober Iway way that drink affects me when I 1 married I cant can't remember any anything thin about it I soon forgot for for- got that I 1 was married although I do seem to Shave have an indistinct ind recollection that I married Miss Carlson But Miss Dombrow why Dombrow-why why I cant can't even Itell tell you just what she looks like The whiskey did it e There it is Theres There's the whole case for the defence if he ho ever goes on trial for polygamous us doings Hell He'll say just about that to the twelve men in in the jury box and the judge Just about that maybe And perhaps he be will continue to slight alight mention of ot the fact that his memory might have been affected because of the long period of time elapsing between his two Chicago marriages They were nine whole days apart ft But to return to the story of 0 O. Henry It tells feUs of ot the arrival at his office of Harvey Maxwell Max- Max wen well a busy broker and his stenographer Miss MissLe Le Leslie lie He Ho plunges into his work and soon becomes becomes be- be comes a machine his bis personality disappearing He is so lO engrossed that ho gruffly dismisses the attentive appearance of ot Miss Leslie Who retires at taken back to the inner office She She asks Basks Pilcher the managing clerk if there ther have bave been any answers from the employment agency ato to the request of Maxwell for tor a new stenographer She gets a negative reply A little later when in an applicant appears Maxwell to the amaze amaze- r l 7 ment meat of the clerk who sa says s the old man has gone off his head tells him he never advertised for a stenographer withdraws the call at the employment agency sends away the girl who had applied for the position and declares that Miss 1 Leslie will do Noontime arrives and as the story r r goes r 1 When the luncheon time dren drew n near ar 1 there came a slight lull in the uproar i Maxwell stood by his desk with his j hands full of telegrams and memoranda with a fountain pen over his right carand ear car and his hair hanging in disorderly strings over his forehead His window was open for the beloved janitress Spring had turned in in a little warmth in the waking registers of earth And through the window came a wandering wan dering perhaps dering perhaps a lost odor lost odor a delicate r r s t tr ty F r y Mrs Esther Carlson Aldrich sweet odor of lilac that fixed the broker for a moment immovable For this odor belonged to Miss Leslie Leslic it was her own and hers only The odor brought her vividly almost tangibly tangibly tangi tangi- bly before him The world of finance dwindled suddenly to a speck And she was in the next room twenty room twenty steps away By George Ill I'll do it now said Maxwell half aloud Til 11 ask her now I wonder I didn't do it lon long ago ago lIe He dashed dashe into the inner office with the haste of a short snort trying to cover He charged upon the desk of the stenographer Sho looked up at him with a smile A soft pink crept over her cheeks and her eyes were kind and frank Maxwell leaned an elbow on her desk Ho still clutched fluttering papers with both hands and the pen was behind his ear Miss Leslie he began hurriedly I have but a moment to spare I want to say something in that moment Will you be my wife I haven't had time to make love to io you in the ord t I J Jt 4 r S ay aR a 9 y R a ay yS y s S 5 Mrs Lillian Dombrow Aldrich nary w way y but I really do love you Talk quick please those please those fellows are aro clubbing the out of Union Pacific Oh what arc are you talking about exclaimed the young young lady She rose roso to her feet and gazed upon him round Dont you understand said Maxwell res res- res- res I want ant you to marry me I love you Miss Leslie I wanted to tell you and I snatched a minute when things slackened up a bit They're callin calling me for the phone now nov Tell em to wait waita a minute Pilcher Wont Won't you Miss Miss' Leslie LesUe The stenographer acted very queerly At first she seemed overcome with amazement then tears flowed from her wondering eyes and then she smiled up through them and one of her arms slid tenderly about the brokers broker's neck UI I know now she said softly It is this old business that has driven everything else out of your head for the he time I was frightened frighten d at first Dont Don't you remember Harvey We were married last evening about 8 S o'clock in the little church around the corner When Wife Meets Wife Wire Wives No 3 and No 4 of the ensign describe him as a lavish spender and a handsome cavalier He seemed to possess the qualifications of a Lothario and th the memory that might b better batter have belonged to one old enough to be his grand granddad His path from Chicago after spending a twenty twenty- hour four-hour honey honeymoon oon with wife No 3 to the Montana town to of his alleged fourth marriage was featured by largo tips and the laying of epicurean napery Newspaper l Feature tur Serice 1820 1920 L j N on l' l Glenn T. T Aldrich the Over Married Young Man in His Uniform as Commander Aldrich of the United States Navy He surely must possess a wonderful personal charm According to latest reports none of his wives will prosecute him Two of them held a together get council of war in Chicago recently recent recent- ly ly- They compared notes They matched his good qualities against his bad qualities and being being be be- ing women had a perfect right to arrive arrive at the reported conclusion that they would not press a charge of bigamy against their handsome and common husband But Mrs Dombrow Aldrich takes exception to the ensigns ensign's explanation of how he came to take two wives unto himself in nine days She says If he insists on that absurd story that he was waa intoxicated I shall shaH surely have him prosecuted prosecuted prose prose- for bigamy Mere annulment wont won't satisfy satisfy satisfy sat sat- me I r really dont don't want to appear against him because of his lovely parents But if he keeps on telling that weird tale tal Ill I'll feel duty bound to do so Reflections of a Bigamist But it seems that the ensign Is Ii rl a pretty bad situation aside from his alleged bigamous mar mar- It is charged by the police that he palmed off checks aggregating on individuals individuals individuals indi indi- and concerns concerns from from Chicago to Portland Up tor to the time of the money-marriage money jag on which he embarked he enjoyed a spotless reputation reputation tation and coming as he does from an excellent family with a good record in the war it was a great shock to those who knew him The thought of what may happen to the ensign ensign ensign en en- sign recalls the uproar at Sin Sing Sing New York after the prison monthly magazine carried the opinions on bigamy by Convict who had bad seven wives In this article the convict wrote in part During my three years of imprisonment I Ibave have bave devoted considerable study to the subJect subject of bigamy and have made some opening eye dis dis- dis- dis There was Solomon Israels Israel's greatest king and the worlds world's champion bigamist times a matrimonial repeater With a house filled with women of the rarest beauty and highest culture he cried aloud in his anguish All AIl is vanity and vexation of spirit Poor devil he knew It was Solomon who said It is better to eat a crust of bread in an attic alone than to dwell in a palace with a contentious woman Amen Ame to that Longevity of Single Wirers I had two of them one for eight years and andone andone andone one for seven years and if the king had as much sorrow proportionately with his as I had with my seven it is little wonder that his days were cut short Solomon cashed in at 70 while Adam Adamand Adamand Adamand and Noah and Methuselah all three of them single were still tearing dates off the calendar at the age of to The sublimity of motherhood is the Inspiration inspiration tion that keeps the love fires burning in the hearts of men Bigamy discourages motherhood and should therefore be suppressed and those who indulge in it should be severely punished In Inthe Inthe Inthe the entire category of criminal ac acts s bigamy has the least excuse Every bigamous marriage is a ablow ablow ablow blow struck at the home the very heart of our social system Does bigamy pay I am doing five and a half years for collecting collecting collect collect- ing m my string of jewels They were not worth n the price Solomon was the worlds world's champ bigamist He cried out in in his d despairs despair All AU Is vanity and vexation of spirit Poor devil he knew knewl The prison mag magazine zine was Immediately suspended suspended sus sus- pende by the warden |