The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-11-30

The Widow Wins
Her Case
By ELLA SAUNDERS
l@. 1872. Western Nawsnane r IInion

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seem to think this is the middle of thu
Nineteenth century instead Of thu
Twentieth" protested Mrs. Lane.
Henry Oldham thumped his fist OF
the table. Il don't care if it's the
F%ffty-ninth !" he beloved. my daugh
ter goes INCORPORATING with thai
scoundrel, Henry Perks, and comes
nome at 8 o'clock next morning with 8
tale about the engine breaking down
at sea. Maybe it's true, maybe it amt
But that girl don't enter my house
again except as Perks wife,"
Pretty Mrs. Lane expostulated. DO
you mean to say that those two young
people, who are simply friends, have
got to be tied up together miserably
through life because of a m%otor-boat
a%ccident2" she demanded.
He's compromised her. The Old
hams have always held themselves
above scandal. l don't care if the
story's true or If it amt. That girl
comes here as Mrs. Perks or she don't
come back again."
Mrs. Lane sighed. Henry Oldham,
at sixty-two, was the most unreason-
able man in the town. She had had
Nancy under her own roof for nearly
a week, during which she had tried
again and again, as others had, to
bring Oldham to reason.
Oldham, however, stuck doggedly to
his guns. His view was simply that
If a young man and a young woman
went out together one afternoon, and
came back together the next morning,
they must come back married. An
elopement he would stand for. Scan
DIAL he would not. And that was that.
Nobody but Mrs. Lane would have
dared approach Mr.. oldham more than
once. He had driven his own sister
out of his house when she expostu-
lated with him. He had threatened to
disinherit his married daughter, Mil
dred, for putting a word in on be-
half of Nancy. But Ann Lane and
Henry Oldham were old friends. They
had known each other for 10 years.
Mrs. Lane had been a widow for
five years now, and it was said she
but they were good friends enough to
laugh at the report. Henry Oldham
said frankly that at his age he vas
to be caught. In his best moods
he "joshed" Mrs. Lane about it.
She came round with her car next
day. 1--WE come to take you for a
little spin out to Port Maitland" she
said. you don't get out enough,
Henry"
Henry Oldham looked at her shrewd-
mot a word" sighed Anna Lane. II
zee it's impossible to persuade you to
AXE a reasonable point of view,
what you choose to call reasonable
absolutely" Henry oldham an
wered, as he stepped into the car.
Anna Lanes car was the best make
the market-which every one who
WINS a car knows. They spent a jolly
fternoon at the seaside, had dinner
ogether, and prepared to return.
I'm going to take you home through
'ocono Gap" said Anna Lane. "It's ]
he most rural thins imaginable. I {
7ant you to see it, Henry" ]
Strikes me you're taking me a
retty good ways round" remarked }
[enry Oldham, who had been getting
little apprehensive somehow as the I
IN went down and they seemed far
Ter and farther from home in a wild, Il
lountainous region. ;
"Oh, it's only fifteen miles to the ,
earest village, Somerville, and then =
a quick run home," answered his
ompaniOn. =
They went on a mile. And suddenly
lie car stopped dead. Anna Lane got .
ut to investigate, for Henry Oldham :
new nothing about cars. She tin ?
cred. Finally she got down on her u
ack underneath. She came back
her head. Il
81 can't think what's the matter :
it'll it," she said. And suddenly she =
umbled, slipped, went down with a
y of pain. ?
She was white-faced when Henry II
.lped her into the car. 1--WE wrenched
Y ankle" she said. "What are we q
ing to do?" -
won't it gO?" demanded Henry. "
"Tm afraid the-the ca%rburetor's u
ne wrong. / can't fix it. What shall
e do? Nobody's coming along at this ~
ne of night. Well just have to wait .
! morning when the milk carts pass,
less-unless you want to walk Is y,
les into the village and-and leave -
: here alone" -
Henry Oldham glared at her. "That no
cans we're stuck here for the night"
shouted. -
Worse than that" sobbed Anna.
means 1--we got to marry you,
l can't bear it." =
Henry Oldham had amassed his for
le by quick thinking and swift ini-
tive. He took his medicine. After ~
/, it was he or Nancy.
I'll take that girl back" he said !,
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