Show I 1 E R al A A L L STORY USANA EN V novelized from the comedy of the same name by illustrated rupert arom of the play as pr dubeil henry W savoie 1 cop copyright frIght iu 1914 by u IL n r aik oik input SYNOPSIS alf ut harry maylory in ordered to the philippines no ho and marjorie Marj orle newton decide to elope but wreck of taxicab pre vents venta their seeing minister on the w way to the arnin transcontinental train la taking on passengers gera r poter porter ha has a lively tim time e war with an M englishman ln g ail hman andlar and ira a lath fop p a yankee business bual neBB man the 0 oceh r ra have e st an a n 1 exciting time getting to the train jimmie wellington bound for reno keno to get a divorce hoards boards train in maudlin condition later mrs Jin imle appears she to IB also aloo bound for reno with same abc likewise mrs mra sammy whit koblect igniter blames mrs mra jimm 0 for her er marital troubles cn classmates of ory r d decorate bridal berth rev and mrs e start abart on a vacation they decide to cut loosa and T temple m lle removes evide evidence nee of df his cal calling ilg g marjoree Marj or orle decides to let mallory proceed alone but train starts alarta while they are lost in farewell kera gers loin join mallorca Mall Mal lorys orya cla classmates in giving couple wedding hazing marjorie Marj orle Is distracted distract tr tract cil ira lathrop Ia woman hating bachelor di discovers an old sweetheart anne blattle battle a fellow ger aim mallory 0 v vainly in I 1 hunta hunis for a ier among I 1 the he passengers j CHAPTER XIII 1 hostilities begin during malloris Mal lorys absence Marj marjoree orle had met with a little adventure or of her own ira lathrop finished his bis re encounter with anne gattle shortly after mallory set out stalking clergy men in the mingled contusion confusion of 0 finding his one romantic name flame still glowing on a vestal altar and of shocking her with an escape of pro fanelty ho he backed away from bertres her presence and sank bank into hla his own berth ile he realized that he be was not alone somebody was alongside lie he burned lo 10 to find the great tear spent eyes of marjorie Marj orle staring at him he rose with a recrudescence of his bis woman hating wrath and dashing up the aisle found the porter lust just returning from the baggage car he seized the black factotum and growl growled edt say porter theres therea a woman in my berth the porter chuckled incredulous woman in yo berth yes yea get her out bassah Ya Yas saah sah the porter nodded and advanced on marjorie Marj orle with a gentle 11 souse sense roe me missus yo berth Is num ba one 1 I dont care snapped marjoree Marj orle 1 I wont take it but bilut this un belongs belong to that gentleman ile he can have mine ours mr mal lorys loryal lor yaV V cried marjoria Marj orle pointing painting to the white tent in the farther end of the car then she gripped the arms of the seat as aa it if defying eviction tile tho porter stared at her in III helpless iel pless chagrin then he shuttled bak and murmured 1 I reckon betta put pill her put gut Laffi lathrop rop withered erea the coward with one contemptuous look and strode down the aisle with a determined grimness lie he took his ticket from his pocket as a clinching proof of hla his title and thrust it out at marjoree Marj orle she gave it one indifferent glance and then her eyes and mouth puckered as it she had munched a green persimmon inon and a long low wall like like a distant engine whistle stole from her lips ira lathrop stared at her in ii blank wrath doddered irresolutely and nd roared aab agh let her have it the porter smiled triumphantly and r paid nid she says you kin have her berth ile he pointed at the bridal arbor lathrop almost exploded at the idea now he be felt a hand on hta his shoulder find and turned to see little jimmie well t finkton emerging from his berth with an enormous smile t say pop have you roil seen lovely ilce ice trap stick around till she flops hut but lathrop hung flung away to the smoking room little jimmie turned to the jovial negro I 1 porter porter im right by you what time ayou say we get to reno lleno Mawn tn of the oth day sah well vell call nie me just before wo we roll roil in and he rolled tn in ilia his last words floated down the aisle and met mrs airs little jimmie wellington just returning from the room where she bho had vought fought nepenthe ithe in more than one of 0 her exquisite little cigars the familiar voice familiarly bibulous smote her car with amazement she beckoned the porter to her anxiously Por porter terl porter do you know the of the man who just hurried tn in nom said the porter 1 I reckon hes bes so broken up he aint got any name left it be mrs mused things can be sometimes said eald the porter you may make up my berth now said paid mrs wellington forgetting that anne gattle wag s still there mra airs wellington hastened to apologize and begron cd her to stay taut but the spinster ranted to 11 le e tar far away from the dis curbing atmosphere ot of divorce aha was dreaming already almady with her eyon eyen open and she sank into number six la II 11 a lattim enters entera re mrs airs wellington gathered certain things together and took up her handbag to return to the room just as mrs whitcomb came forth from the curtains of her own berth where she ehe had bad made certain prelim to disrobing dis and put on a light decidedly negligee negligee the two women collided in tho the aisle whirled on one another ns as women do when they bottle recognized each other with wild stares of amazement set their teeth and made a simultaneous dash along tho the corridor shoulder wrestling with shoulder they reached the door marked women at the same instant and na as neither would have dreamed of offering the other a courtesy they squeezed through together in a kilkenny kilhenny jumble CHAPTER XIV ate dormitory on wheels wheel of all the shocking institutions in human history the sleeping car la is tho the most chocking or would be it 11 we were riot not so to it there can be ba no doubt that wo we are the most moral nation on earth for wo we admit it ourselves perhaps we prove it too by tho the arcadian prosperity of these two story hotels on wheels where travelers dwell in corn com preto promiscuity slid and sleep almost side bide by side elde in apartments or compartments part ments separated only by a plank and a curtain and guarded only by one sleepy negro after the fashion of the famous country whose inhabitants earned a meager sustenance by taking in each others washing so in sleeping car patala we attain a meager respectability by chaperoning chape roning everybody else so indeed are our notions once we aro are aboard a train that the staterooms state rooms alone are regard ed with suspicion we question the motives of those who must have bare a room to themselves a room with a real door that lockri I 1 and now on this sleeping carprew 1 l tily named snowdrop scones wore were on enacting acting that would have thrown our oui great grand grandmothers mothers into fits scenes which if we round found them in franco or japan we should view with alarm as almost unmentionable evidence of the moral obliquity of those nat nations na tlona lons dut but this was our own country the part of it which admits that it Is the best beat part the mora lest part the staunch middle west this was waa illinois yet dozens of cars were beholding sivilar in illinois and all over the map thousands of people in hundreds of cars were permitting total strangers to view preparations which ch have always hitherto been reserved for the most intimate and legalized relations the porter was deftly transforming the day coach into a narrow lane entirely surrounded by draperies behind most of the port leres fluttering in the lightest breeze and perilously following the hasty passerby passer by homely or offices were 4 being enacted the lation of this little town was going to bed the porter was putting them to as it if they were children in a nursery and ha ba a black mammy the frail walls walla ot of little sanctums sanc tums were bulging with the bodies of peo pla dle disrobing dis in the aisle with nothing between them and the beholders eye but a clinging curtain that explained what ii it did rot not reveal arom apertures aper tures here and abere f e we r 6 p protruding ro find I 1 n g a and fi d dij mysterious i tji r I 1 0 U 8 hands were removing shoes and ather other thing ii women in risky attire were scooting to one end of the car and men in shirt sleeves elec ves or less were hastening to the other when mallory returned to the snowdrop hla his ear was waa greeted by the thud of dropping shoes lie he found marjorie Marj orle being rapidly immured like poes prisoner in a jail of closing WON walls ahe was unspeakably III at ease and by the irony of custom the one person on whom she d depended for protection was iho one person whose contiguity was most alarming and all for lack of a brief with a clergyman as the quid when Mul lorys careworn face appeared round the edge of the partition now erected between her and me abode of dr and mrs temple marjorie shivered anew and and asked with nil anxiety did you find a minister perhaps 3 the recording angel overlooked mallorca Mall Mal orya lorys answer not a damn minister when he be dropped at marjories Marj side she edged away from him pl pleading eiding oh ob what shall we do lie ho answered dismally and ineffectively well have to go on pretending to be just friends but everybody thinks were married so eo he admitted with um imbecility ot of fatigued hope they sat sal a while listening to the porter slipping sheets into place and thumping pillows into cs cases eba few doors down the street he would be ready tor for them at any moment something must be done but what what CHAPTER XV A premature divorce Sad suddenly denly marjories Marjor loa heart gave a leap or of joy she was having baying another idea ill tell you harry well pretend to quarrel and then and then y pu can leave me mc tn in high dudgeon the ruse struck him as a trine trifle unconvincing dont you think it looks kind hind of 0 on on suca an occasion marjoree Marj orle bl blus ushel bel and lowered her eyes and her voices con can you bug gest best anything better no but then well bare to quarrel darling darline lie yielded lor for lack ot of a better idea all A 11 right beloved how shall ehalt we begin on close approach the idea did seem rather impossible to her hiar how could I 1 ever quarrel with you my love loe she cooed coded lie he gazed at her bee with a rush or of lovely tenderness and how could I 1 ever speak crossly to you we never shall have pharoh word shall we she resolved nevort Nev orl he be seconded so that resolution passed the house bouse unanimously they held hands bands in luxury a white while then she began again still we must pretend you start it love no you start it he pleaded you ought to she beamed you pot got me into this mess mass the word slipped out mallory started Iv mess lessl row how to Is it my faulty good lord are you going to begin chucking it apt up i well you must admit darling darlin gt marjorie Mar orla urged that youve bungled everything pretty badly it was so undeniable that he could only groan and I 1 suppose ill hear of this till ray my dying day dearest marjorie had a little temper a all 1 her own so bo sho she defended it it you are so BO afraid of my temper love perhaps better call it all oft off before its tuo too late 1 I say anything about your temper sweethearts Bwee theart mallory insisted you did too honey you said bald id chuck this up till your dying day A As e if I 1 had such a disposition I 1 you can stay atay here she rose to her foot feet lie he pressed her back with a decisive motion and demanded where are you going up in the baggage car with she phe sniffled res heb the only one that find fault with roe me mallory was st ungto action by this crisis walt wait he ha said bald he leaned out a and nd mot motioned I 1 boned down dow n t the he alley Por porter terl walt wait a moment darling Por porter terl I 1 the arrived with a half balf told foid ed blanket in his bands and his usual Yas eahl sahl beckoning him closer mallory muni mum bled in a lowhone low tone la Is there an extra berth on this car the porters eyes seemed to rebuke his ears does you want this upper made u up no of course not ex excuse me I 1 thought I 1 dont you dare to think thin kt mallory thundered there another lower I 1 berth the porter breathed bird and gave this bridal couple up as a riddle that followed no known rules ile he went to find the sleeping car conductor and returned with the information that the diagram showed nobody assigned to number three then ill take number three said ti mallory allory poking money at the porter and still the porter could not understand now lemme onder stan you all he stammered does you both move over to numba anumba three or does yo yo lady remain heah while lest jest you pro aranbul ates just I 1 you black bound mallory answered in a threatening tone the porter could understand that at least and he bristled away with a meek dessah Yes sah anumba numba ahree Is ig spurs sah bah th tae troubled e adrea fia tUrea of the bat ned fled porter cleared up as by magic when he arrived et ct number three for there he found hin bin tyrant and tormentor the english invader ile he remembered how bow indignantly mr wedgewood had refused to show his ticket tiow now cocksure h ha was of 0 his number how he be had leased eased the porters services vices as a sort of private nurse and had paid no advance royalties TO IDU DK CONTINUED |