Show S T DRY el m novelized from the comedy of the same name by I 1 R fm adf of the play a r C ed hughes ily houry W L 00 1911 by U AL ca 8 harry mallory lary Is in ordered to the philippines ile he anil and marjorie marjoree Marj orle newton decide to elope but wreck of taxicab prevents their seeing minister on tho the way wal r to the train transcontinental train Is tr taking it on pao n r 11 porfir 0 arter has a lively time with an en englishman EnK lishman an and ira lathrop a yankee business mart man the ha have e an exciting time getting to tho the t train little gimmle V We ellin lUnston lon bound for it heno no to get ent a divorce b boards g r train in nau alln condition later mrs 31 amle 8 appears she la Is also bound for or reno with same bama t likewise mrs sammy whitcomb oble exter bitter blames mrs bira jimmia for liers lien marital troubles lea classmates ot of mallory decorate bridal berth rev d mrs mra temple start on a vacation they decide to cut loose and temple removes remove sevi evidence dance of lils his calling marjorie Marj orle decides to let mallory proceed alone but train starts while they are lost in farewell fare well gers join mallorca Mall Mal orya logs in giving couple wedding hazing CHAPTER X continued Us lie sank bank into the sent seat opposite marjorie who gave him one led glance and burst into fresh sobs soba oh oh boohoo boo hoo im so hop hap py perhaps mrs mra temple was was a little miffed at the couple that had led her astray and opened her own honeymoon with a iv wanton fib in any case the best consolation she could offer ocher marjoree Marj orle was a perfunctory pa batand pat tand and a cynicism there there dear you dont know what real unhappiness Is yet walt wait till youve been married a while and then she noted a startling I 1 ack of f completeness in the brides hand why my dear wheres your wedding ring with what he considered great presence of mind mallory explained S it it a slipped I 1 off 1 I 1 I picked it u up P I 1 have it here and ho he took tho the little gold band from his aalst waistcoat coat and tried to lam jabi it on marjories Marjor Mar jortes laB rig right 11 t thumb not on the chumbl mrs temple cried dont you know you see its my first marriage you poor boy this finger nigerl and mrs temple raising marjories Marj orlea limp hand selected the proper digit find and held it forward while mallory pressed the RAM fatal circlet home ani and then mrs temple having corni comi plated their installation an aa man iuan and wife utterly confounded their confusion oy y her final effort at comfort well my dears dears ill go back to my seat and leave you alone with your i dear husband my dear what marjorie Marj orle mumbled i inanely and belian began to sniffle again whereupon mrs temple r resigned her to mallory and consigned her to fate with a consoling platitudes platitude cheer up my dear y aull be all tight light in the morning marjorie Marj orle and malloris Mal lorys eyes met in one wild clash and then both stared into the window and did not notice that the shades iliades were down CHAPTER XI A chance encounter while mrs temple was confiding to her husband that ohp th agitated couple in n the next seat had bad just come from a wedding factory and had bad got on while he was lost in tobacco land the atie people in the seat on the other side elde of them were engaged in a little drama of their own ira Lath lathrop roli known to all who knew him as a woman hating snapping tur tie tic was so BO busily engaged trying to drag the farthest invading rice rice grains out out of of the back of his bla neck that tie he was late in realizing his whereabouts when he raised his head ho he found apat that he had crowded into a sent seat with rin an tin uncomfortable comfortable looking woman who crowded against the window with old maidenly timidity tie ile felt some apology to be necessary and be snarled disgusting things those these weddings after he heard beard this it did not sound entirely felicitous so ho be grudgingly ventured excuse me you married L she denied the soft impeachment so heartily that he softened a little youre a sensible I 1 guess you and I 1 are the only sensible people on train it seema so she giggled it was the amt time her had been ta acken hen as material tor for a compliment ment something in the ae girlish giggle and the strangely young smile that hat swept twenty years from tier ler face aud aua belled the silver allver lines in her hair seemed to catch thoi th old bachelors elors attention lie he stared at her bu fiercely that she looked about for way to escape then a curiously almost a hungry lubic abott softened his bla leon leontie fite jowls into st boyish eagerness ind his growl became a sort oi of gruff purr say you took look something like art an old sweet er br friend of mine j were you ever in brattleboro Bratt leboro VLY vt A husk her hei cheek anda bense of home hom warmed her prim bruu speech lie aa alfe B be confessed i A f 1 I came fo arom M there originally so did I 1 1 I said ira iia lean ins ing closer and be beaming arning like a alj sun aun 1 I dont suppose you reine ratter ira the old mald maid stared at tho the bachelor its as it if she bhe were trying to see the boy ilie aha had known through the maali that time had modeled on his face and then she wm was a girl again and her lier voice chimed as aa she cited why iral ur mr lathrope Lathro pl la 18 I 1 it t sho she gave him her hand annd both her bor hands and he smothered them in orl one big paw and laid the other on aorl lor extra warmth ns as lie ho nodded hla his aalf eay age head and roared retired as aa gentle aa a 1 sucking dove well annie anne hlis alaa gantlet what do you think or of that they gossiped across the chasm pt of of 0 years about people and ann and know nothing of the excite excitement ft ont so 60 close to thorn them saw no nothing tilt of 0 chicago slipping jIng back into the distance with its many lights shooting across the windows like burled buried torches suddenly a twinge of ancient jealousy shot through the mans hoart heart rec recurring to old oid emotions so youre not married anne whatever became ot of that fellow who used to hang round you all the 00 1 7 I 1 time tam e I 1 charlie selby she blushed at the name and thrilled at the luxury of meeting jealousy oh hi ha entered the church lies a minister out in ogden utah 1 I always know hed never amount to much was lathrope Lath epitaph on his bla old rival then he a started t i with a new you bound for caden too oh no sue she smiled enraptured at the new sensation ot of making a man and understanding all ju li a flash the motives that make coquette o then she told him her destination im on my way to china chenal nal he exclaimed som IS 11 she stared blared at him with a new thought and gushed oh ira are you a missionary too missionary hou toa he roared 0 excuse me im an tw importer teporter porter ann aan o 0 I 1 I 1 nut but the sonorous swear reverberated in their ears like a smitten belt and he blushed for it buc could not recall it CHAPTER XII the needle in the Hai haystack stack the almost married couple sat I 1 olig long in mutual terror and a common paralysis ot of ingenuity marjorie Marj orle for lack ot of anything better to do was absentmindedly mind edly twisting ears while he that pocket abridgment of a dog in a well meaning effort to divert her from her evident grief made a gre great at pretense of ferocity growling and threatening to bite her lingers of off r the new ring attracted his sp special jealousy ile he was growing discouraged cou raged at the ill success of his impersonation of a wolf and dejected at t being so crassly ignored when ho he suddenly became in hl his turn a center of interest marjorie Marj orle was awakened from her trance of by the porters voice olce v ills hla plantation voice was ordinarily dina rily as thick and egweet as his own new orleans sorghum but now it had a bitterness Itt erness that curdled the blood me but how did you alt alf git that theah dos dog in this heah cab Is always with me said marjorse Marj orle briskly as it if that settled it t and tur turned ofed for co to the d dog og himself arent you Nr well ell the porter drawled trying to be gracious with his great power the rules dont low no live stock in cars ck captin cep PW tin humans marjorie Marj orlo rewarded his condescension with a blunt is more human than you are 1 11 I he is Is the porter admitted but he ca cant nt m make ahe up berths anyway the rules rues says dogs goes with the baggage marjorie swept rules aside with a defiant 1 I dont care I 1 wont be separated from my she looked to mallory for support but he was too tao sorely troubled with greater anxieties to be capable of any action the porter tried persuasion you botta lemmo take him the conduct a Is what I 1 am a couple of dogs out the window trip bafo last the b brute ohl ohi cassum he la is a rebulah brute lie he just loves to hear im m when they light noting the shiver that shook ane girl the porter offer ed abit a bit of consolation ll belter etter lemme have the pore little thing up in the baggage cab liell hell be in charge of a lovely baggage smash er are you sure hes bes a nice man olt oil yas Bura lies hes death on trun trunks lis but hes heg a natural born bork angel ange to doga welt well if I 1 must I 1 must she sobbed poor little can ho be bome back and seo see me tomorrow tomo now marjories Mar jorles tears were splashing on the puzzled dog who nestled close with a foreboding of disaster i reckon chaps better visit him poor dear little good night my little darling darlane darl lne poor little a child aits the first night bos bes slept all by hla his ittle lonesome and the porter was growing desperate lie he clapped his hards barda together impatiently and urged 1 I think thin I 1 hear bear that conducta conduct a comin 11 tua the ru ruie e succeeded eded marjorie Marj orlo fairly forced the dog on hiru him quick bids him hurry she gasped and sank bank on the seat completely crushed til ill be so lonesome without tilia 11 Mall madory liry felt called upon to remind her of his big pro presence erico I 1 I 1 im bete jarjorie Al jar arjorie jorte she looked at him ju lust i it him tho the burco bourbo of all her i troubles burled her head bead in her arms and resume her br grief mallory stared at her helplessly then rose and bent over to whisper im going to look through the train oh dont leavo leave me eno pleaded clinging to him with a dependence that restored his respect 1 I must feml a clergyman he wills ill be back the minute I 1 tind one and ill bring him atti me ino the porter thought he wanted the dog back and quickened hla his pace till he be reached the corridor where mat lital lory overtook overto olt him and asked in nn an effort effort at ansual it he hart had seen anything ol of a clergyman ou on board aint seen been bothin that even looks looka ithe one said the porter thou then ui ito barton cd ahead to the baggage car with the squirming while mallory loll hollowed owed slowly going from seat to seat and car to eat car subJect subjecting subjection In ull ali the males to an inspection that rendered some of them indignant others of then them ul lonsy it ir dear old doctor templo temple could only have known whitt what Aini lory was limiting ting lie ho would have snatched olt off lio ile mask and thrown aside asido tho the becu lar scarlet tie at nil all costs but poor mallory unable to recognize a clergy man so dyed lu ln tho wool as aa doctor temple sitting bitting in tho the very next seat how could ho he bo be expected to pick out another in tho the long iong and crowded train ilk all clergy clergymen mea took look mike when they are arc in convention assembled but sprinkled through a crowd they aro are not so easily distinguished in the steeping sleeping car bound ter for portland mallory picked one man a aa 8 a clergyman lie he had a loan ascetic face solemn eyes tind and ho he was talking to his goat boat mate in nn an oratorical man ner mallory bent down and tapped the mans shoulder the effect was surprising the man jumped as if he were stabbed and turned a pale frightened face on mal lory who murmured excuse me do you happen to be a clergyman wan A look of relief stole over the mans features followed closely by a scowl of wounded vanity no damn you I 1 dont happen to be a parson I 1 have choser chosen to bewell it if you had watched the bill boards baarda in calca go during our run luu you would not need to ask who I 1 anil ami mallory mumbled an apology and hurried on just overhearing his victims sigh blehi such is tamo tame ile he saw two or three ocher clerical persons persona in that car but feared to touch their shoulders one man tu tit the last seat held him specialty specially and bahi be aidin aid in the turn of the corridor in th the e hope of eavesdropping some duo clue this ThI siman i man was bent and scholastic ot of appearance and wore heavy depeo tables and a heavy beard which mallory took for a guaranty that helas he was hot not another actor and he was reading what appeared to bo be printers proofs Al mallory allory felt certain that they were 1 a volume of sermons he ha lingered timorously tit in the environs for some time before the man spoke at all to the dreary looking woman at i his bide aide then the stranger ho and this is what he said and read 1 I fancy this will make the bigots sit upland take notice mother if 11 there ever was a person named moses it Is 3 certain from the writings ascribed to him that lie he disbelieved the tha egyptian theory of a life after death and combated it as a heathenish superstition the judaic idea of a future existence was undoubtedly ao ac the As syrians during itte tf a captivity 1 lie he doubtless read much more but to tc atia next car there he found a roan man in a frock coat talking ln solemnly to another of equal solemnity the seat next them was waa unoccupied d and mallory dropped into it eika g his cars backward to news was wag you ever in moline Mol lne one voice asked was ildas I 1 the other muttered I 1 run out of there by one of my audiences I 1 vas v ns givin hypnotic demonstrations and I 1 had a run in with one one of my horses and he done me diri right in the midst of one of his c cataleptic ic trances he got down from the afa e chairs where I 1 bad strete stretched tied him out ut and hollered llos hes a bum taker gents and owes me two weeks pay thank there was wai a back door openly on a dark daric alley leadin to the switch yard I 1 caught ft a caboose just as a freight train was puli pu in out r mallory could hardly get strength to rise and continue his search on his bla way forward ho be met the conductor crossing a vestibule between cars A happy thought occurred to hi mallory allary lie ha said excuse vac inc but have you any preachers on board none so tar far aro Arg yuu sure eura positive itow how can you tell well it a grown man offers me ins ft a half fare ticket I 1 guess a tret oret ty good sign aint it mallory guessed that it cutill a td turned back hopeless and TO RE 1313 CONTINUED |