The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-02
THE RACE
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We'll run away" Winthrop said.
And OF course 1t never occurred to me
that we could do anything else. Win
throp had said 1t! That seemed
enough
She'll be here tomorrow, first
thing" said, looking anxiously at the
slip Of yellow paper that had upset us
so.
Then we1l run away tonight"
I must have showed my astonish-
ment, for Win laughed and suddenly
put his arms round me.
We'll run away tonight" he re-
peated.
And that is practically what we did.
After all, there is little use going
over the details of that mad elopement.
A girl looks forward to her marriage
as being highly rImantic affair, and
an elopement as being the most roman
tic form Of marriage. Win and I
practically eloped-though with his
mothers knowledge and help.
We did not actually leave that night,
but we did leave very early the next
morning. First OF all, Win drove
around to his mothers house and
brought her to me, and we three dis
cussed the kilograms and the probable
actions OF Aunt Harriet.
She does things in a great hurry
when she has her mind made up"
mourned, still staring at those two
long kilograms.
well, we'll just do things in a
greater hurry" Mrs. Taylor announced
and her tones held more decision than
even my aunt's did.
We began planning and trying to
guess my aunt's probable actions. Evil
IDENTIFY she had my letter telling of my
engagement that morning early, fol
first telegram bore an hour early in
the morning. Following that she had
waited awhile for an answer-an i'm
possibly short while we learned after
wards, and had then gone in to Boston
From there she had caught a trair
to New York-she telegraphed the mid
night train, but she might even have
taken one earlier. 1t was only five oil
six hours-if she had found a trair
earlier than the night one, she NIGH
be out in Wellsville next morning. Il
not, she would certainly arrive in the
early afternoon, and IL she took il
into her head to take a special train
there was no telling when sfl) wCSll6
come.
jumped at every sound, sure it wa.
my aunt coming up the porch.
That night Mrs. Taylor helped me
pack few things into a suitcase Mex
morning Win came for me about
o'clock and we drove to his mother
for an early breakfast. From Their
we went of in my car. out of Wells
vile towards the north, through tn
lines of workmen walking SOUTHWARK
to the oil plants. By we were spin
ming through the clear morning al
and the world was alive and singinj
as we drove through it.
Happy" I remember Win askin
me. And I nodded, too excited owe
my elopement to speak.
We turned west towards Buffalo an
arrived there in the afternoon. w
we're married that day and stayed i
the city for two days. That had bee
arranged by Mrs. Taylor.
Looking back over the months an
years of happiness and unhappines
that have since been through, l RI
member two things that stand on
clearly from my romantic elopement.
One was that Win was disappointe
because ! had not brought along on
of my very stunning evening dresse
so we could dress for dinner in tn
hotel.
I'm always, stared at when I wea
those elaborate things" I told him.
That's it! I want people to star
at you. I want the world to see wha
a beautiful wife l have. Think ho'
they'll envy me-"
smiled little. was pleased thu
he was proud of me. But hated b.
ing stared at. In spite of the year
when I had been dragged around I
hotels much more ornate than the or