Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-12
Runaway June
BY George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester.
Copyright IsIS by serial Publication Corporation.

mighty towers which commerce has
reared as monuments to her imperious
sway Mrs. Willard led June through
portals OF Il majesty which would have
graced a cathedral in older days. June.
lost in the beauty of this entrance, did
not notice n peculiar circumstance.
Mrs. Willard had dismissed her car,
sending Marie and Bouncer home with
the clothes.
She hurried straight back to the ele-
vators with June and shot up to the
eleventh floor. where they entered a
suit of Offices furnished with the heavy
richness OF club or millionaire bach
elor's quarters. Mrs. Willard on an
nouncing her name was shown at once
into a private reception room. A Sc
we're looking man came out TO meet
them, hard man, one with a smile
less face and a metallic looking nose
and chin.
"I'll see you in just a moment, Mrs.
Willard" he said in an unbending voice.
and his chill gray eye, rowing to June,
speculated appreciatively upon that
very pretty young person.
There swept into the reception room
woman who almost stopped June's
breath. She was startlingly handsome,
with a skin like velvet, complexion
Of exquisite tinting, facial contour
without flaw. Her nose was perfect
fy modelled. her eyes were full and
large and round and clear as crystal,
ana she held her head tilted backward
at slight angle which was the perfec-
ton OF insolence. She was extrava-
santly gowned and glttering with
Jewels. but the most remarkable thing
In connection with her was the trans
formation in the severe man. He had
been changed from metal into wax; his
eyes had come to life and on his lips a
smile.
why, my dear" he said, 'this is an
unexpected pleasure, MpE ask you
to wait just moment And he
glanced apprehensively toward his pri-
vate Office, where a small, impatient
man, with his gloved hands clasped Oh
cane, sat nervously.
II don't think shall need to wait. "
And the woman glanced around the
reception room. Her glance swept Just
above the head Of Mrs. Willard. but il
swept downward as it came to June.
She calmly lifted her pearl handled
iorgnette, opened it with snap and
surveyed the girl from head to foot
with a cold appraisement of that beau.
tiful young PERSONS charms. She
swept her gaze to her beaming hus.
band. Il shall need some money" she
remarked, and there was an additional
insolence in her having made herself
oblivious to the fact that there were
strangers present.
with pleasure, my dear" And Mr..
P1nknam was as obsequious as If he
mad been a salesman whom the wo.
man had just favored with large or.
der. How much shall it be-"
Ten thousand" she said calmly.
The impatient little man leaned for
ward and started to talk as Pinknam
sat down at his desk, but no attention
was paid to his eager renewal of the
conversation. and he died into fuming
silence while the check was written.
Mrs. Pinknam stood in disdainful re-
pose.
II have made it twenty" Mr.. Pink.
nam observed, using the ingratiating
tones as he tried to smile.
THANK you," she said and. folding
the check, dropped it into little gold
purse as If it were trfle of vulgar
insignificance. If the man had thought
by his eagerness and generosity to
strike from her any spark of gratitude
or affection he had been mistaken, for.
having thanked him in u manner which
made the thanks themselves an insult,
she bade him goodby and swept from
the office. And the man? He beamed
after hey.
Mrs. Willard and June breathed n
sigh of relief. They were invited into
a handsome inner office. The insolent-
ly handsome woman, In Mrs. Pink.
nam the runaway bride had recognized
another and a startling phase of her
own problem. Here 1t was again-the
same, never ending condition of the
man owning all and the woman none.
of the man giving and the woman re.
ceiving.
Suddenly June gave a start of min.
gled surprise and fright. In the door.
way stood the darkly handsome, suave.
ly smiling Gilbert Blye.