The Washington times., 1919-02-23
Elopement from the Fashionable
Miss Ely School, and
James G. Blaine, Both Twice
Married and Twice
Divorced, Unite for Third
Marital Voyage

sion and the quietness of the country
would sober the mischief of the trio. De-
murely they accepted the guardianship OF
Miss Moxley, of the Ely School, and settled
down-or at least seemed to.
Now just at this time Tom Graydon was
the idol of Harvard. He was the fullback
on the football team, and as "Blondy"
Graydon was worshipped by the followers
of that now tanned sport throughout the
country. Miss Beryl and Tom knew each
other-were, indeed, almost in love. The
Saturday after the girls began their term
of imprisonment at the Connecticut cot
tage, Harvard was beaten by Yalei
Miss Beryl flew to a telephone She
called up the saddened champion
at is Beryl," she said. Il am prisoner,
Tom, up here at Sharon, Conn. It is awful
lonesome; come up and see me. Yes, 1t is
the Bartram Cottage-and when you come
say you're my brother. Goodbye, deari"
Then Miss Beryl went to Miss Moxley
and said that her brother had telephoned
from New York that he was coming up to
see her the next day. Could he not have
room in the cottage while he stayed?
1t appears that even a lynx-eyed precep-
tor could not refuse such a request when
the demure little pupil in her charge so
innocently asked it.
The next afternoon-Monday-a big, tall
youth with tawny hair which flowed about
his ears and over his collar and with all
the abandon of a football hero's coiffure,
appeared at the Bartram cottage.
Hello, Sis, you're in pretty fix up here,
aren't you?" he said gruffly to Miss Whit
ney, as Miss Moxley stood by.
81 don't approve of my sisters conduct
at ALL" he went on, turning to her chap
eron. This is just what she deserves"
An hn fUyn int n
gether, the brother" apparently giving
his sister a severe lecturing; that is, as
long as the chaperon was in sight and
hearing.
That evening there was an old fashioned
husking bee at the Casino, and the Bar
tram household, including the three girls,
their chaperon, and the big brother"
went to see it. But the handsome brother
and the pretty sister, with radiant face
and blue eyes, were absorbed only in each
other
Miss Moxley glanced suspiciously in the
direction Of Miss Whitney several times.
When the party reached the Bartram cot
tage, about ten o'clock, and Miss Whitney
and Brother Tom" ensconced themselves
in a dark corner of the little parlor Miss
MOXley suddenly remarked:
you two young people are entirely too
loving for brother and sister"
And then the cat emerged from the bag.
The next morning Tom Graydon was
driven over in the gray dawn to the 7:30
o'clock train. He said he was going to
catch the westbound Cincinnati express at
Chatham and go home to see his parents.
After this exploit the three were put on
real penitentiary regimen and discipline.
They couldn't go out even under guard.
Enter now Mr. "Thad" Johnson, the
faithful butler Of Bartram cottage. Butler
Thad's sympathy was appealed to with
such success that one night not long after
a ladder was placed by him outside the
window where Miss Whitney and her two
sister prisoners were kept. And down the
adder into the waiting arms of young Mr..
GraydOn slipped the determined Miss
3eryl. Love laughs at locksmiths when
windows open and ladders are handy.
Miss Walcott and Miss Joyce followed
Ter. But something interfered with the
.lOpement at just this moment, for after a
ime the three came back, slipped up the
adder, but, alas, forgot to remove 1t. Or
ather the unfortunate butler forgot it
FOR the next morning there was the ladder
till, and, as they say in the story books
all was discovered"