Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-03

The EloPing Pair are Married.
adornment and pleasure. Remember
ard repent, my child, and shall pray
1"I you while burn these things"
The door had barely closed behind
the Reverend Deane than she was at
the open window, searching the moon
spun night for the blurry mass that
represented White. More than sweet
heart he was now. He represented
freedom, life, liberty, escape from the
tailor whose feet she could hear upon
the stairs. Her heart gave q little
leap as she discerned an automobile
outside. A pebble ratified upon the
floor.
Swiftly she detached the note from
the weight, devouring 1t at q glance,
obedient to it instantly: Auto at
corner. It's the only way out" AL
most telepathic 1t was, this answer to
the call of her heart, this instantane-
GUS response to her overwhelming de-
sire for freedom.
Carefully. with a smile upon her
lips, a cruel, little smile at thought of
the hurt she was giving in return for
the one just received, five minutes
later, with her grip in hand contain
Ing all the tawdry, cheap reminders
OF the life she was leaving, she pinned
her sweetheart's note to the little
cushion on her dresser, then stole soft
ly down the stairs and out into the
night, smuggling back against the
cushions of the big car, elate with
wild sense of freedom that made her
move away even from the strong arm
of James White.
Where, sir?" queried the driver.
THE Reverend Blacks parsonage
opposite end of town, you know, on
Carson Street"
Ard in that way Rita eloped.
II
White smiled happily to himself as,
lost in the pictures painted by the
flames tapping fatty over the legs In
the library CRATE, he v1sualized the
happy hours that had been his since
that night IN the comfortable, little
parsonage ~hen Rita Deans became
Mrs James White.
A man worth while, & young man
whuse shoulders had not bowed be-
meath the weight Of handling great
wealth unloaded upon him Immediate
" he quit college, q man submerged
in business, at the age of so, he
found the happiness which his nature
had craved when he soon wearied Of
the 1aborlous efforts at winning pleas
ure in the set in which his riches had
placed him.
Times there were when he could
have wished she might show sigma Of
tiring of this endless round of pleas
ure. but always he would reproach
himself for the thought. She had
been starved so long, had been so
completely robbed OF her girlhood by
the fanatical clergyman of a father
that he revelled in the privilege of
making all that up to her.
Dances receptions, the constant
moving from summer to spring to
winter homo! Theaters. dinners. sun
per dances. clothesi And never an
emergency but Mrs. James White met
II firmly and controlled 1t. The Rita
Deane of Mary-Janes and shabby at
TIRE had assumed leadership of the
youngest and gayest set of the city.
And she was so beautiful and fresh
and young! And when che tired of it
all, the very capability which gave
her such command of any situation
would make the home for which the
business man so longed All this he
could picture In the flames before
him, was picturing there as Rita
reused him from the pleasant reverie
TO remind him of an engageme ent.
Arm in arm they wandered over the
estate.
HIS eyes wandered dreamily over
the level lawns, the beautiful garden
ing, the gorgeous flowers, then halt
ed and tender. almost longing ex-
precision deepened them, as he
watched his chauffeur playing with
ms 'aby. He glanced furtively at
Rita, almost flercely trying to find
some reflection in her eyes of the
nght dwelling in that of Mary, the
chauffeur's wife, as she took the child
from her husband, who stood at at.
eention. listening to his mistress in.
etructions