Jackson's Mail-order Bride

This is the second story of the MasIntyre brothers -- Lucas and Jackson. Lucas has sent for a mail-order bride for his brother Jackson, which he did not want and Lucas's wife Emily wanted to know how Lucas was going to convince Jackson to marry. Lucas married Miss Molly Malone by proxy for his brother, claiming that Jackson was too ill to attend the wedding. Molly goes storming up the mountain to Jackson's cabin and mine to see if he really is ill. Oh, Boy -- Jackson is laid out with a fever and Molly must bring the fever down as Jackson floats in a semi-conscious void. In a dream like state Jackson consumates his marriage unknowingly. Jackson was in for the shock of his life when he woke up the next evening.