he's beeo all the evening.'

    "Well, a month afterwards me and Mrs. Jessup was married in the Los Pi d the whole towo see the performance.

    "When we lined up in front and the preacher was beginning to sing out his rituals and observances, I looks around and misses Paisley. I calls time on the preacher. 'Paisley ain't here,' says I. 'We've got to aisley. A friend once, a friend always--that's Telemachus Hicks,' says I. Mrs. Jessup's eyes snapped some; but the preacher holds up the ins ag to instrus.

    "Ies Paisley gallops up the aisle, putting on a cuff as he es. He explains that the oods store in town was closed for the weddi get the kind of a boiled shirt that his taste called for until he had broke open the badow of the store and helped himself. Thehe other side of the bride, and the wedding goes on. I always imagi Paisley calculated as a last ce that the preacher might marry him to the widow by mistake.

    "After the progs was over we had tea aelope as, ahe populace hiked itself away. Last of all Paisley shook me by the hand aed square and oh him and he roud to call me a friend.

    "The preacher had a small house ohe street that he'd fixed up to rent; and he allowed me and Mrs. Hicks to occupy it till the ten-forty trai m, as going on a bridal tour to El Paso. His wife had decorated it all up with hollyhod poison ivy, and it looked real festal and bowery.

    "About ten o'cloight I sets dow door and pulls off my boots a while in the cool breeze,