No one at the hotel knew any of the parties,…

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Thompson to marry the older, and Staples the younger one. They came in on horseback, ar- riving about 3 o’clock in the afternoon. They stopped at the Tremont house and registered as F. O. Thompson and lady and J. H. Staples and lady, and were assigned to rooms 16 and 17. No one at the hotel knew any of the parties, and looking like recently married country couples, nothing was suspected until some time next day. On one pretext or another the brutes deferred the marriage ceremony, telling the girls that the papers were being made and licenses got ready. In the meantime, however, they proceeded to fill their dirty skins with whisky, and using every effort to have the girls drink, but without success. Night came with- out any marriage ceremony being performed. The girls, strange, bashful and diffident, as such people usually are, knew not how to extri- cate themselves from the toils of these devils, into whose hand they had fallen. The two couples occupied their respective rooms during the night. Several times passing persons heard the girls protest and beg to be left alone. The parties occupied their rooms until 6 o’clock on Saturday evening, when they made prepara- tions to leave.