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Show r NOT A BRIDAL PARTY, . Bat the Massachusetts Man Wanted to Know All About It. They were wandering up and down the waiting room of the Grand Central station, and neither seemed inclined to talk much, although from the glances they occasionally bestowed upon one an other it was plain that there wa3 a degree de-gree of relationship existing between them. Suddenly tho young man left the young woman's side and crossed to the newsstand, where he purchased a paper. pa-per. Returuiug, he conducted his,com-panion his,com-panion to a seat. - . ! Hardly were they seated before one of those inquiring individuals who mus talk to somebody placed himself in the next seat and eyed them inquisitively, to their visible annoyance. He could not curb his propensity to talk, and thus Vegan: Ve-gan: : "Strangers in the city?" " "Yes," said the man shortly. . "Taking a train?" was the next query. "Yes." - " - ; "Maybe you are going my way?" continued he of the inquiring turn of mind. : - "Maybe. We are going to Boston." "Alv yon belong there?" . "I do," was the man's answer. ' "Fine city," went on the inquisitive one. "You don't see the papers filled up with divorces and scandals there as you do here. I belong to Massachusetts myself. my-self. Worcester is my home, and a divorce di-vorce case or an elopement ia a rarity. You seem to have gone into matrimony recently?" looking at them patronizing iy. . "Rather, " was the tired response. - "Might I inquire your business?" "Certainly. I am a detective." "On your honeymoon?" "No," answered the detective, folding fold-ing up his paper. "I'm taking back a prisoner." "Why! Yea don't mean to say" looking at the woman in astonishment. "Ida" "I thought she was yontwife. " "So she is, and my prisoner. To save "you inquiry, she eloped with another man the day I married her, and I tracked track-ed her here. " "And you are taking her back to justice?" jus-tice?" "No, to marry her. I guess the job wasn't properly done, so we're going to do it over again. " "Is she from Boston too?" "No. From Worcester." "Oh!" The inquisitive man said no more. New . York Recorder. |