The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-03-11
BY JASON JUDSON

our weather. classes have money
Miss Anita BeritoD loved a poor man
and her father desired that she should
wed a rich one Young Van Damn
Follapsbee had but beggarly ten mil
lion, while the old widower Plankip
ham Porkenpaker possessed cool bill
lion. Follansbee should have seen tn,
improperly Of asking for girl b,
could not support in the style 10 which
she had been accustomed. but be came
Of an old Dutch family on his moth
er's side, and the Dutchmen who set
tied New York were proverbially obsti
nate and stupid.
One would suppose that the Beritons
who. owned q railroad starting from
New York. running 10 New Orleans
and thence around the Pacific coast
and back through Canada, might afford
to let their daughter marry a poor
man. But a panic al the time Of the
courtship had reduced their dividends
10 20 per cent. and they felt unusually
poor Mrs Beriton, who had married
her husband when be was brakeman
on one Of the railroads which be after
ward united in the circular coast line
system and became that SYSTEMS own
er. sympathiZed with her daughter, but
Beriton swore round oath that be
would have no beggars in bis family.
On the morning Of June 10. 1885,
Miss Anita Beriton was sitting with
her mother and a younger sister in the
spacious roof garden Of her fathers
residence occupying the four blocks
between Five Hundred and Tenth and
Five Hundred and Fourteenth streets
and avenues D and 81, New York.
when Mrs. Beriton proposed q ride
One Of the family aeroplanes was cali
ed and in q few minutes lii upon the
roof garden. Mr.. Beriton. fearing that
his daughter Anita might in some Of
these rides elope with Follansbee. had
given orders that. August Spindleton.
q driver Of his own choosing. should
at all times conduct the machine. and
on this occasion lniudleton was in his
accustomed seatB
Mrs. Beri'0n aHd her two daughters
entered the machine. which rose. light
ly circling upward for a thousand feet
when Spindletou was directed to pro
coed southwark along the coast for
brief trip 10 Annapolis. They were
moving at a moderate pace of some
sixty miles an hour, when Spindleton
cast a glance 10 the right and. seeing
a machine coming toward the party.
clapped on double speed.
Mr.. Beriton's fears had proved TO
be well grounded. Mr.. Van Damn
Follansbee was out in a machine of
a new pattern and was bearing down
upon them. II was evident that Fol-
lansbee was intending 10 get into
with Mrs. Anita Berl-
ton.
Spindleton was true 10 his employer.
BE drove his machine at its best speed,
passing over cities. bays and rivers,
but his aeroplane was gradually gain
Ed upon by Follansbee. lowering owe.
philadelphia, Spindleton endeavored
10 descend. but Follansbee glanced
down Ike bird and reached a plane
beneath him. Spipdleton then rose
and made bee line for Baltimore.
But Foliansbee. evidently with the de-
termination TO drive him out 10 sea.
got 10 the west Of him and forced him
over Chesapeake bay In few min
ltes more the pursuer had the party
over Fortress Monroe. flying due east.
The race was won. Spindleton was
not prepared 10 cross the ocean. and
here was 10 way for him to get back /
except 10y eucLntering Fonansbee. /.
SpindIeton slowed down. and Follans. (
Dee glided up beside the Beriton aero.
plane A conference took place. after
which Mrs Beri,on and her TWO dauch. /
ers stepped from their own aer0plaue .
INTO that Of Mr. 'FoNaasDee.
Meanwhile SIR BeritoD had left the
'oof Of bis Office building downtown
u one Hundred and Twenty-dfth
'ireri. Intending 20 20 home. Soon aft.
r rising bee saw ia the direction Of bis
mansion $3.50 aerop.aue starting. and.
eizing d glass be- always carried in
he smoking room Of his capacIous
'irccar. brought il ~ bear Oh the one
uNt setting out Discovering that its
occupants were his wife and daughters
With his own aviator IN control. be
vas about 10 lay aside his glass when
e saw another aeroplane lowering
ear bis home Bringing his glass 10
ear on this machine. he saw Follans.
zee alone in 1t and just starting for
be one occupied by the Beritous.
Mr.. BeritOn noticed that Fo.ausbee's
eroplane was Of kind be had not
cen before II was Of the bird type.
nd on its prov was a sharp ram
he merchant was at once filed with q
pprehension. II was plain that Fol
Insbee was bent on some course con.
ected with the BeritoU family. bur
was impossible to imagine what
lat course would be II was not 10
e expected that he would run down
he Beriton car and thereby precipitate
he girl he loved TO a distance of some
~ feet Nevertheless he was soon In
III chase Mr. Beriton directed his
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