The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-30

little thinking coming home on the
car, and this is what I've got so far:
A rich mans son named Peter Per-
kins falls in love with a poor widows
daughter named Polly Taylor. Seer"
But you must have more romantic
names than those Mr.. Bowser, Tor
hero and heroine"
Mot at all. The publisher and I
agreed that the public had become
tired of romantic names. The old man
Perkins forbids his son to marry Polly
The son says he will do it, and the
father drugs him and hires a sea cap
tain to carry him over to Africa. He
is there captured by cannibals, but as
cal songs they spare his life. That is,
they do not eat him.
IT see.''
by and by old Perkins has the
mumps and becomes conscience-strick-
| en-. He goes to Polly and confesses
his crime and tells her that he will
bring Pete back and turn over all his
wealth to them. She calls him q muir
derer and scorns him, but having
learned that Pete Is In Africa she goes
| into dressmaking for year to get
the money and then starts for Cape
town. Do you follow?"
Perfectly" replied Mrs. Bowser,
| with averted face.
| Meanwhile old Perkins has started
| for Africa and arrived there but 1t is
| six months before he hears a word Of
Pete. Then he gets news and starts
the tribe and makes big cash offer
for ransom. = The savages refuse his
dough and make him prisoner. He is
old and lean and tough, and they begin
to fatten him up. In about six weeks
he is In proper condition"
II hope you won't let them devour
him, Mr.. Bowser."
;. but 1 shall. The publisher said 1t
was time for something new in the
plots Of love stories, and am going to
; spring this on my readers Yes. sir,
j when all is ready they run Pete into
the bushes out OF sight and makes
t away with the old man. Then Pete
escapes. He has journeyed about three
hundred miles towards civilization
> when he is attacked by natives. He
, not only defends himself, but puts them
to fight and pursues and makes cap
lures Who do you think he rescues?'
( TT couldn't have been Polly?
+ Polly Taylor and no one else. but HI
: didn't recognize her at first sight. II
1 travelling through the forests she had
donned mems clothing to get along
! The publisher said the public was tired
| Of heroines in dresses. and so I hav'
E worked this situation in. I look 10
t the public to grab at it.
And then they come homer" asket
' Mrs. Bowser
mot right away They wait till Pet
a discovers a diamond mine and sells
e for ten million dollars. He Is deteTmin
!, ed not to have anything to do with tn
: old mans money you See"
But then they Gomez"
yes, then they come, and they arriv
q in scottsville just as the widowe'
d mothers furniture is going to be soil
81 auction. You can imagine the rest
t There's a plot for you. and what d.
1 x,o,1 think of it p
= Mrs. Bowser asked to be excused 70
g a moment and passed into the parlor
Mr.. Bowser followed moment later t
q find her in a heap on the moor ana
handkerchief stuffed into her mouth
: Her shoulders were shaking convulsive
and at first o he Psrnn i had w sons
his reward. Then he understood, an
Q he turned away and walked down tn
han and out into the wailinE and tn
= n,no,nine and the darlness OF tn
: gipbt perhaps never to be seen Of mel
more on earth Pete tso ana 1, rol aoon ma
u01-;rhted 1908 by T. c. Mcclure.