The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-09

The plans for an eloDement of the
bail player and the pretty JOhnstOwn
girl. who have been friends since their
childhood davs III Wichita. Kan. mis-
carried, owing to the failure of the
Wichita pitcher to pay the SIS
charged by the chauffeur for bringing
his young sweetheart to Denver.
Standing on corner of Sixteenth
and Curtis streets about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon where her pitcher
hero had told her that he would
meet her she was round by Denver
police detective who told her that her
father and mother were waiting for
her at the St. James hotel and that
she was to accompany him there.
Realizing that her dream of love
and travelling with d winning baseball
with the officer to the -hOtelU ere
her parents and an officer from
Loveland were waiting.
"Oh. mamma. are You herei" the
girl said as her parents stepped from
an adjoining parlOr into the lobby on
the entrance of FIossie and the detec-
tive.
Mrs Howell took the now weeping
girl in her arms and assured her that
she was forgiven The father was
too overjoyed at having his daughter
back to be angry with her.
But the father refused to forgive
Brennan.
Seating in the office of Chief of Po-
lice Armstrong the girl refused to be
Teconciled to the sad ending of her
childhood romance She refused to
consider the advice of Chief Arm
strong that she should wait until she
had grown that she might make sure
that she loved Brennan and no other
But I loved him since I was a lit
tie girl back in Wichita" she told
Chief Armstrong. 'And father only
moved away from there to live in
Colorado to get me away from Ad.
But I shall always love him no mat
ter what mamma and papa say"
But the final test for supremacy
of the parental authority over love
came when the father dictated a let
ter to be written by the girl to Adam
Brennan in which she told him that
in the future their lives should be
apart.
Seated at the desk of the chief of po-
lice with tears streaming down her
cheeks as she thought that with every
word her dreams of love and a romance
of childhood were being shattered, the
girl wrote as her father dictated, the
following letter:
IN the future our lives must lie
apart. We are going 10 move from
JohnstOwn, Colo. to Modesto, Calf,
because father says that we must not
zee each other again until am of age,
Father says that if when I am of
age which you know is not far dis
tant that if I love you and you care for
me as you do now that we may get
married with his consent, but not be-
fore
BE a good boy and always think of
me and I will do the same I must not
write to you nor you cannot write to
me until I am Is years old Then we
can write.
Hoping that you viii never forget
our childhood days and that you will
always think of me, l remain,
'FLOSSIE HOWELL"
Seals Note With Kiss.
The girl pleaded with her father for
p more affectiOnate closing to the let
ter but he refused to consider it. say
ing that the letter as it stood was too
''nushy" without adding any ''un-
necessary phrases"
But the stern parent could not stop
the girl from closing her farewell
note to her hero of childhood days with
There! I know that Ad will know
that l sealed it with a kiss, no matter
how many fathers and old policemen
were around" the girl cried as she
placed the mlsslNe IN a ponce envelope
and addressed it in a big, bold hand to
Ad Brennan in care of the Wichita
baseball team
Placing a few of her personal belong
Jngs in travelling bag, the girl left
her home in JOhnstoWn and board
I'd train for Loveland. Arriving at
Loveland. she went Immediately to a
garage and rented a car to bring her
10 Denver.
river of I4oVeland. was assigned to the
ask of landing the pretty girl with the
.Jnni-sr WAYS in Denver by II o'clock yes
erd3Y morning. The start was made at
Hardly had the car with its two youth
~ AOannants gotten outside Of Ioveland