The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-03-08

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CHAPTER 1.
Paris. March When Thomas
Stewart Ryan. young newspaper
man of Murkogee. Okla. San Fran
cisco and .chieago, made hurried
tripAo Los Angeles IN the spring Of
1917. he rang up the curtain on q
poignant drama Of love and feminine
revolt against matrimonial bond
age" II was TO end only whom
death. garbed IN mystery. ntalkcd
on the stage. act this time IN tho
Latin Quarter of Paris. nearly five
years later. and announced: ia
tomoiiac fInlta."
Ryan had junt joined the Stan
fAfd ambulance unit and was about
10 leave for the French front Amer.
Iea had entered the world war,
Young soldiers and their sweet.
hearts. not knowing what the near
future might bring. we're transform
Ing their lovers vows into pcrms.
nent alliances. consecrated by the
church and the law.
Ryan's visit 10 the Southern Cali.
fornia city was made with that
object lie had ma'ic the acqunInt-
ance Of Audrey Creighton. a Los An.
geles girl Of eighteen. beautiful and
talented. musician OF great promise
for whom brilliant future ms
vioIin9i was predicted by her
teachers. They we're engaged but
the girls mother was bitterly op-
posed TO their matrimonial plans
But love laughs at locksmths and
parental fury. Ryan was determined
that before he left for Europe.
Audrey Creighton should be his wife.
Here Is where this tale OF two
continents takes on a twofold aspect.
as one views the various incidents
through the eyes Of Ryan or through
those Of Mrs. Creighton. When Ryan
and his sweetheart jumped into an
automobile In Los Angeles and sped
away TO a town a few miles distant.
where they were married by % jus.
tice Of the peace, Ryan contends that
this was simply the solution they
had found TO the problem caused by ..
Mrs. Creighton's objections to their
union.
Mrs. Creighton tells a different
story According TO her version. |
Audrey. then an impressionable girl |
under kind OF hypnotic influence
welded by Ryan who at once
charmed and terrorized her. consent
I'd to the marriage ceremony only |
when the young writer threatened |
% kill himself and her unless she
agreed. I'D
Whatever the determining motive.
however, the married life of the
young couple terminated temporarily !
IN hour afterelthe justice ofpthe
peace had made them man and wife
,y law. Audrey returned immediate
y to her mothers home and never
Jaw her husband again until they
net In Paris.
Ryan joined his unit and sailed
or France. Audrey Creighton, her
husband Of an hour having, as she
believed, passed. ont of her life for
aver, turned back to her violin
studies, which were to lead her to
he threshold of fame. Under her
maiden name. she appeared in con
,erts and recitals in various cities
If the United States, winning high
,raise from leading critics.
Demobilized after the armistice,
Ryan resumed his newspaper work
Is a correspondent for Chicago
newspaper He returned to the
United States and tried to get in
ouch with his wife, with whom he
lad kept up a desultory correspond
,nce. He encountered again the op-
position of Audreys mother and
earned that the question of the
egality of his marriage had been
ired in the California courts for