The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-17
Motors That Pass
i'm the Night
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LnuIence tanGrly )-ile Woulu ulsaP-
prove If he knew, | suppose
jenny don t know what YOU mean.
but IN sure it, Of no Importance. |
believe | have said good night,
Laurence-If You have it has slipped
my mind. II may he stodgy' and
English Of me, but | can I allow a
lady whom Ia lady Of my acquaint-
ance to motor alone along a country
road at night,
Jenny-lt ism Z night.
Laurence-It Is pitch dark and ! shall
wait quietly till you We light Your
lamps-sinco you won I let me do 1t
and started your car.
Jenny (confused) Doh, you re going
to wait for-that7
Lsurencc-Yes. It would he the same
If we were strangers.
Jenny-lt can I he the same. | wish
it could
laurence certainly should be hap
pier if we always had been. But this
has nothing to do with what has been.
II will be n mere case of-motors that
pass in the night.
Jenny-The sooner they pass the bet
ter, then
Lauroncc-very well You've only
Jenny docking desperately at her
Goblin5-Yes, I've only TO start Oh.
Mr.. Kent, no doubt you mean we'll; but
good intentions are paving stones-you
know where-and my tires don { love
pave. ] ask you as a gentleman 10
leave me. ! have my own reasons
Laurence (1ushed and hurt}-At least
! had no intention of prosecuting you.
] meant merely to follow at distance
and see that Won were safe (Aside)
Can she be expecting some one-not
that bounder of husband? Marian
used to warn me that all American
Iair-any longer. (Aloud) But since
I may not even do that-good night.
Lawless-There we go! It's all mp.
The Goblin-Don t YOU believe 1T.
III bet ] know men better than you
do, as well as women.
laurence starts his car again and
drives off in the direction of London.
He has been 10 Brighton for spin and
has an engagement 10 dine in town at
half-past eight clock with his cousin
Marian and her mother; but the first
sight of the girl who Tilted hlm put al
thought of Marian out of his head. lie
really intends to leave Jenny 10 her
fate, but sound ahead causes him
to change his mind He hears the
grunting and believing of herd OF
cattle being driven toward some mar
ket village, and, remembering Jenny
terror of cattle, slows down and turns
around once more; then stops to await
developments,)
Laurence-Can she have got off? No.
The Goblin S a noisy little brute.
should have heard her voice # she d
started. I believe she must be wait
inp for some one She doesn { deserve
that ] should care what happens-hut
/ do care, because | IN fool ~
stop till the cattle have got by. IT
she should want me
(The cattle surge round hls car. Tor
midable, long g-horned creatures. Pres
emily the first rank reaches Jenny and
her Goblin about fifty yards away The
Goblin has Just decided to start, but at
sight and sound of these terrible creat-
ures Jenny's hand drops from the start
ing hapdle)
Jenny-Ob horror, horror! Why did
I tell him to 90? Larry, Larry, save
Laurence answering from dis
tance)-Hullo!
(He Jumps into dry ditch and runs
along it, thus outstripplng the cattle.
He lifts Jenny into Goblin.)
You ought 10 have a car You can
start from the scat
Jenny (sobbing)-Oh, ii WAS terrible
to he left alone with them.
Laurence-Your husband oughtn I TO
have left YOU.
Jenny-My husband7 Are you
dreaming?
understood you to say you d dropped
him.
JENNY haven 4 picked him up yet.
Laurence-What do You mean3
Jenny-Wbst do you mean? (She
dries her eyes.l
Lsurence-Whv. that you--suTely
you-Marian said il was to De the first
of the month
Jenny-What7
ce-Your-wedding.
Jenny-Why, ] haven't ever been
engaged-since-
Laurence-Not to-your chauffeur?
.Jcnnv-No He was engaged 10 me.
To work for me--nothing else; DIS,
charged him today because he-sald
things about love-the wretch!
Laurence But-you said 'fwe' were
Jenny-A sweet old American aunt
and 1. She joined me in Paris and
wanted TO see England. though, of
course, / would rather have stayed
awav from your country after what
Marian said you said,
Laurence-Mariani l never said any
thing to her about you which you could
have disIilscd.
Jenny-Did you think / would like
to hear that you thought me forward
and faSt. ana tEdU you WeTc dSudulcu
YOUR people should know
Laurence-r never said anything Of
the kind Was that why you wrote to
tell me you never wanted to hear from
me or see me agaiu-that it had all
been q mistakeR
Jenny-Wasn u it enough to make me
do iti
Laurence-If YOU believed-but
Marian told me that YOU threw me over
because you d fallen in love with a
gentleman chauffeur whom yon d en-
Jenny-Oh, Larry!
Laurence-Darling!
Gobln-How good and clever Of me
TO arrange all this. Lawless will be
pleased when he knows. ] suppose he
and I will be always together now.
Well, [ don't know that l could have
done better for myself. He's forty
horse power-and my favorite color.
Lanrence-Nothing shall ever part us
again
IaDrancc-T III 0oi n snpcial hccnea