Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-09
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do had fate permitted me to follow
humdrum career, but my extraordi-
nary adventures had taught me that
woman is happiest as clinging vine,
no matter how self-suficient she may
pretend to be.
Whenever | get my affairs tangled
up in ar awful mess I want my nus
band to come Immediately and
strighten them out for me.
NO sooner did / find myself ap-
preaching the climax of the Mexican
affair than | realized how weak and
worthless | was, and wanted to re-
main!
Bob, | hoped, was on his way to
join me and to take over my burdens.
He had been detained by his father,
Ostensibly to wait for important
papers concerning the mines, but in
reality to keep him from travelling on
the train with Katherine Miller
| grew sick whenever | imagined
what might have happened to that
unfortunate girl To be sure she
had a big market value-she was
good for an enormous ransom-and if
she had been clever enough to i'm
press this fact upon her captors, she
would have been spared terrible
fate.
Morrison assured me that the rings
she wore were a grand advertisement
of her wealth, and one which the ban
dts would recognize and bank on.
He argued that she would exist in
perfect safety-ana vast discomfort
until her money value was ascer-
tanned.
The detectives theory was COM
forting-and | needed comfort No
matter what the girls character, and
in spite of all my reasons for. abb
horring her, | realized that she had
fallen into an awful predicament as
the result of Daddy's brand of diplo-
macy. 1t was up to the Lorimers to
rescue Katherine Miller.
Nothing could be done until Bob
was safely north of the Rio, never
theless, Morrison shaped and dis
carded score of plans for searching
for Miss Miller. By means of his
telegraph code, which seemed to cover
only the coffee business, he kept Dad
dy Lorimer in touch with the situa-
ton. And he called upon some of
his professional friends to meet him
at the nearest border town. The
bunch would hustle, he said, for res
cuing a lovely young girl from ban
dts was their favorite camel
Morrison ended by insisting that
Bob would be waiting for me on the
edge of our good old U. S He in
sisted in spite of the fact that we
never got single answer to the
wires he had sent. We would Just
nave to worry along without answers,
ne said, and be glad his own mes
ages went over the line before that
crook at the station got onto our
code. We discussed the pros and
cons of our situation as we sat by
The fountain in the patio of the
hacienda. To deceive the numerous
oungers in the place, we laughed
gayly as if we were joking. | trust
I'd that | was proving a successful
actress.
Perhaps | laughed a bit hysterical-
y. | couldn't see how | was going to
get away with Baby Babs and l was
confronting a most unexpected or
iealt-the oldest a bride ever faced. |
was destined to see my husband
oin Morrison's searching party! l
must see Bob go forth to save love-
y damsel from a dragons cave!
And my too vivid Imagination pic
.ured that beautiful lady, with her
ovely tresses streaming behind her,
rs she rushed into the arms of the
,aliant knight who had come to res
.ue herl
ITO be continued.)