Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-03
Runaway June
By George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester.
Copyright By Publication Corporation.


Into this tumultuous scene there
rushed Marie and Officer Dowd and
fat old black Aunt Debby just as Bob
bic by main strength dragged from
| Gilbert Blye the maddened assailant
who had sprung upon him.
| Gilbert Blye rose feeling of his throat,
and for n moment he contemplated Ned
Warner with dazed bewilderment; then
flush OF anger came into his cheeks,
and his black eyes blazed.
LET him go!' he yelled. and, thrust
ing the heavy Edwards out of his way,
he made a mad rush for the man who
had attempted to strangle him.
1t was huge Officer Dowd who this
time jumped in between the two furi-
Gus combatants and. with the aid of
half a dozen young men, prevented the
desperate encounter which would have
ensued.
MY husband- sobbed June and tried
to throw herself upon him, but he turn
ed from her. Ned, Mr.. Blyer'
4 hand was laid upon Ned's arm
Iris Blethering's. She had forced her
way through the excited throng.
arm and looking at the eyes from
which the light Of reason seemed to
have fed. Ned, listen to me. It's
Iris! Don't you see? This is a motion
picture studio"
They all had to repeat It again and
again before they could reach his dazed
intelligence. He had seen but two OBJ
jects in all this huge room, crowded
with It's moving picture machines, its
properties, its scenery, its banks of
strange lights, and those two objects
had been his runaway bride and Gil
bert Blye.
June, She stood now supported by
her father and mother, her large, lus-
trous eyes turned appealingly on Ned,
waiting the moment when she dared
approach him again.
Don't you understand, Ned?" she
frantically cried. Wont you under
stand? It's motion picture play"
Slowly he turned his CLASSY eyes in
her direction. He comprehended at
last, but there was no softening in his
face, for there still stood the dark,
| handsome Gilbert Blye. Ned made q
sudden lunge for his enemy, but officer
Dowd, watching him narrowly, stopped
him.
"You have been with that man ever
since YOU left mew savagely charged
Ned turning suddenly toward the
trembling June and shaking his finger
at her.
In the abandoned bank room below
Bill Wolf stood near a dusty window
with Honoria Blye and rolled out be-
fore her bill. yards long. covering all
the separate items of his sleuthing on
the trail of Gilbert Blye and June War
ner.
"Go over the list, ma'am, item by
item." confidently invited the faithful
detective. You'll find them correct.
And here's check on your own bank,
all ready and made out for you to sign,
and here's fountain pen, ma'am."
Honoria Blye took the long list and
began 10 check it off, item by item.
In the studio above a score of indig-
nant eyes turned on Ned Warner, and
there was loud chorus of protest as
he pointed accusingly at his unhappy
runaway bride.
What do you mean?" demanded the
cold, stern voice of Gilbert Blye, and
he advanced, his black eyes glowing
This girl has done no wrongw
They all talked at once, and they all
talked Indignantly at Ned Warner
Tommy Thomas. the white mustached
Grin Cunningham, the round headed
Edwards, Marie, Officer Dowd, Bob
bic and Iris Blethering and all the
camera men and members of the Blye
Stock company. According to them,
June Warner was the sweetest and
best little wife any man dared wish
for, and II Ned Warner chose to criti-
else her in any way he would have to
answer to every person here, including
fat old black Aunt Debby, who breast
ed straight up TO him, waddling her
voluminous self defiantly from side to
side.
'Looky hyah, you. Mr.. Ned." she
fared, and Bouncer, who had been
rushing around the separated bride
and groom. stopped to bark ferociously
up at Ned Amt that Marie been
with our honey ever since she done
come an got her clothes? Amt you
got no gumption? Why, looky hyah.
IL you say word about our Miss
JUNE I'll Jest about squash you!''
Iris and Father and Mother Moore
bent forward eagerly toward Ned, and
all smiled reassuringly. Then father
Moore turned to June.
my daughter" he said. "come
home"
Mother and daughter wept in each
others arms
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