The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-22

"oood-by. lovelisst girl In the
At o'clock Mr.wilton sat down
to dinner. Nays place across the
table was empty.
Lucy. whe-e ID Miss May?"
don't know. Mr.. Milton. I'll ask
Nora In Q minute Lucy returned.
Mora says she went out At 2:3O."
Tell Nora to come here
Nora appeared in the doorway.
Where did Miss May go?''
7 don't know, Mr.. Milton. She
went out at ESQ with travelling bag.
car"
''Thunderation. Didn't she say
where she was going?"
No, SIR
Mr.. Milton went to the telephone
and called up his sister. Mrs. Morrow.
Katie. do you know anything about
May! She went some place with a
travelling bag and left me no word"
Now don't blow up. brother John.
Yes. I do know something and was
just wondering about it. Jimmy was
coming from school at 5 o'clock, when
he saw May and Dick Witherow get
into taxicab at the corner of FIRE.
mont street and the square. They had
travelling bag!''
ID! Why couldn't you tell me
It's too late now.
why. brother joint"
DO you suppose that presumptuous
overgrown pup has run on with my
daughter? I'll break his - neck.
I don't suppose anything at all.
know something, though. That II they
| haven't run on. wish they had. II
would serve you right for talking that
Dick
II don't. and I'll show him! I'll show
everybody! The gall! The-the-
Mr. Milton was beyond further
speech. The receiver dropped from his
hand
He paced up and down the hall Xix.
Gagged lion. May. run on with Dicl
Witherow! May. married to Dicl
Wftherow! He hated the whole fam
lily! One time Dicks father had cheat
ed himi What he meant was that on,
time the elder Witherow had frustrated
an attempt on his own part to do som'
money juggling.
He ate no dinner. He sat in tn.
darkening library watching the clock
seven struck and no daughter appear
ed. The house was deathly quiet. I
seemed as it some one were dead. May
ms little May. was gone. He was I
lonely. childless, old man. She woult
never come back! She knew he woul,
never forgive her!
When Mr.. Milton dropped the re
ce1ver. Mrs. Morrow hung up her own
She walked thoughtfully into the din
1ngroom and sat down to her unfinishet
meal
.'Well?'' asked her husband What
| the row?'
81 was just thinking. believe ri
call up Dick Witherow and tell hin
that II he hasn't already married Ma,
Milton he may as well do it right away
He's got the credit for it, anyway, an,
brother John will hs ~ Hxy .
time they get home. know brothe
John. He'll come around all right
il So Dick Witherow. his face half-lath
cred, half-shaved, answered the 'phon
In his bedroom and heard Mrs. Nor
i rows astounding proposition. And Il
two minutes he had communicated tn
idea to May. who was at the Settlement
House, detained by q wrangle of tn
house committee -T
Il At o'clock. while Mr.. Milton watch
ed the clock the rector Of st. stephen
Witherow and May Milton were pro
nounced map. and wife
At O'Clock Mr.. Milton tottered to hi
room. He had NOT been 20 desolate 70
years. How could he ever manage I
live without BRIGHT happy little May?
Suddenly thought came to him. II
need not live without her. What ha
ever put such a thought into his head
He would tell her-tell them-to com
home. After all a son-in-law wouldn
make much difference. Now that
was over he rather admired the youn
mans nerve. He had never given hill
credit for much initiative.
Just then the door bell rang and h
heard Mays happy laugh in the hal
then Dicks deeper tones
II A glow passed through him liz
wine. They had not forsaken hin
! They had come home to him instead {
taking a trip! Then he went dowr
| stairs.
It was Mrs. Morrow who called u
) q caterer and some Of the bride
. friends to share the feast
But 1t was mr.. Milton who laid
. generous check On top Of the weddir
3 cake and gave the happy young CO,
5 pie his blessing.-( Copyright, 1914; /
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)