Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-02
Evening Star S
/ Daily Story
'..OH, THAT MANI
BY poNALD ALLEN.

to get a paper of needles and some
elastic tape and a sheet of music and
half a dozen other things she could
have gone In her fathers auto or in
her own runabout, but when she had
at last made up her mind both ma
Chimes were out.
There was no steamship line be-
tween the Vernon place and the vii
lage, distance of four miles. There
was no barge canal. There was no
flying machine handy The only way
to get there just at that time was to
walk
The letter to be posted was to an
aunt in Connecticut, and the only
important thing in it was a brief
paragraph reading:
II was nineteen years old last week
and have not met the young man yet.
He seems to be hiding in the woods"
The aunt was blind In one eye and
stiff-kneed, but after reading that
paragraph over ten times her face
would lose its puzzled expression and
she would say to herself, why, the
dear girl must mean that she Is not
In love-
That letter could have been sent a
month later as we'll as on that day.
and there wasn't bit of haste about
the other things, but Miss Lisie
started On that long walk. ! X II wwsss
hot and dusty and there were no
babbling brooks or shady dells on the
way. After going half, q mile the
girl decided to turn back. She had
turned when man came driving up
with rather smart-looking rig, and
halted to say:
Miss Vernon, my name Is Fletch-
err ! know your father well. II you
have started for town let me give
you q lift. i wouldn't walk the dis,
lance on such a day for ten-dollar
bill.v
Miss Lisle had never heard of Mr..
Fletcher, but he did not look like
kdnapper. and she accented his invi-
tation. He was neither officious nor
gabbY. At the end of mile they
had not spoken ten words. Then
buggy, with two young men in il,
and with their horse on dead run,
pass. Mr.. Fletcher gave them all the
room he could, but the man with
The reins had planned smash and
he brought 1t about. At least, his
own vehicle lost wheel, and he and
his companion were thrown out and
bruised. The other buggy suffered
less, and its occupants escaped with
a. scare 90 E
There was a row. and threats made
and a week later Dir. Fletcher was
arrested on a warrant charging him
with malicious damage, and Miss
hsle found herself subpoenaed as a
witness for the defense. She had re-
lated her adventure when she re-
turned home, and her father had re-
piled:
Yes. I know. Fletcher. He is an
old bachelor, and was sued for
breach of promise about a year ago.
But didn't know IT," protested
the girl.
"weil, you know it now, ana YOU
hadn't better take any more buggy
rides with him. One Of the young
fellows was brother of the girl, and
I shouldn't wonder Il there'd be
more trouble
when constable came with the
subpoena Miss Lisle read IL and ex-
claimed:
what! / am to go into courtiv
That's it, young LADY," replied the
But I never willl''
''Then | shall have to come after
you with warrant!''
You win have To 80, Of course"
said her father when the document
VS. shown him Mr.. Fletcher
81 s' y e vs. = , ssld.s y g prove that.
ma, has been SUED f0r breach
q ..v.vv "a, ,,s., may BE brought up'"
"And-and was riding with
him.
eau - -.
Father, 7 will run away!" ex-
exclaimed the girl with tears in her
eyes
Then you'll get into more
but why don't you 80 to Mr..
Fletcher and tell him you wont al
low your daughter TO appear in
because 1t has gone beyond Mr..
Fletcher and Is In the hands of the
law. The law IL a thing not to be
fooled with, young lady"
: A week later the trial came on be-
fore a justice of the peace, and there
was large attendance of spectators.
The compliments wanted to get even
with Fletcher, and they did not let
perjury stand in their way. They
both swore to falsehoods but so glib
ly that they seemed to be relating
facts, and when they left the stand
the case seemed pretty dubious for
Mr.. Fletcher. When 1t came to the
defense he toldFa straight story and
was followed by Miss Lisle, and she
In particular was fiattering herself
that 1t was all over, when the lawyer
for the prosecution took her in hand
for the cross-examination.
He WAS VOIInR lawVaP and he
wasn't going to spare anybody. At
ter the usual questions about name.
age and residence, and satisfying
himself and the law that the young
lady really lived in North America
instead Of South Africa, he started
out with:
Were you on the highway be-
tween Stone Hill and this village in
the forenoon Of the seventh, day of
last month";"
II was"
. T ss,G yau see the defendant'"
Had YOU ever seen him Defore?"
Not to know him"
but you heard of his breach-of-
promise case?" ,
No. sir.p ~
What! What, You hadn't read
nor heard of it!v
No, SIR - I.s
rSfrange enough. Well, what was
hhe defendant doing on the read?"
Driving horse and buggy
And did he stop and offer you a
ride to the viIlage?"
Yes, SIR
And you instantly accepted?"
Met instaptlyr-no, sir"
rDh. Il might have been ten Sec
ondsl ptd he tell you his manner"
Eyes, sir"
rity?"
II did no such thing, siri'' an
swered the indignant girl, II thought
It kind OF him to offer me lift and
/ accepted"
ssuyaiI 81, drove .iorv 80 ,A.