A DOUBLE ELOPEMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1654, 1 November 1887, Page 3

A DOUBLE ELOPEMENT.

The amusing outcome of a double elopement, which took place recently at Louisville, in America, has been, so to speak, that the right man has married the wrong girl, and that tho double marriage has been rather a confused affair. Two brothers, it seems, were engaged to be married to two young women in the town, and, the parents of the girls objecting to the suitors, it was arranged that the four should elope together. The enterprising young men called for their intended brides in buggies, but to avoid suspicion, the girls were exchanged—the future wife of the one going with the future husband of the other, and in this way they started for the nearest railway station, a few miles off. It chanced, however, that the parents of the girls heard of the departure from the neighbors, and set off on horseback in hot pursuit. They came up with the buggy in the rear, and stopped it from going further; but the two occupants of the other buggy just reached the station as the train pulled up, and into it they%ot. It occurred to the young man that the best thing now to be done was to marry the girl who was his companion, since his sweetheart had been left behind; and the damsel raising no objection the two were united. .To make it all right with the brother, whose place he had usurped, the bridegroom wrote at once after the ceremony, pointing out that “both girls were very nearly alike,” and that matters could be squared if he would marry the other. In this way matters were ultimately squared, nor does it appear that any of the four are dissatisfied with the exchange of parties for life.