Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-11-01

still are, and might not be If they
had been married.
! "rhe children that used to play In
front of their bungalow are the chill
dren of neighbOr."
Aha !" quoth Peachblow. ST will
marry this bachelor" And Immediate
ly began to pack her trunks. She told
ner father to get her Stateroom to
Los Angeles and her mother to come
along.
Her parents INDUCED in mental pin
wheels when they heard her decision.
But nothing could change Peach
blows mind. She went out to Los
Angeles and sent one of her photo
graphs TO Mr.. Winsor with a request
for an Interview. That photograph
was letter Of introduction enough, and
she was invited to call ut the great
mans studio.
| When she stood before his eyes, he
said:
do you want to go into the
movieS?"
"Well," she said. I'm going to mar
ry into them"
Indeed? And who is the lucky
MANI
| you
Really"
| "Uh-huh."
Being used to the silent drama and
hating snperfluons titles, he said moth
ing. but took her by an elbow, her
mother by an elbow, hurried them out
! TO his car. ran them to the nearest
paraon and said Shoot"
For time the marriage was happy
! and she revelled in the luxury Of
being loved by an expert. But then he
went back to his profession, and NOR
tification set in.
Peachbl0w found herself the chat
tel Of husband who left her arms
early in the morning and FASTENED to
the arms of other women; who fought
fer them. pursued them, risked his
life to save their lives, gazed into
| their eyes with an ardor that trans
| fNtd all beholders; who faded out of
eEnry picture with dying duck look
| of undNing affection for some highly
artificial heauty--and then came home
at night worn out with love and want
ed To go to the American Legion prize
fight
| After few months Peachbl0w sent
| for her mother and father and lis
tened to their II told you SOS" with
great patience.
| With ho hot fo
such husband was impossible and
engaged the best divorce lawyer in
Los Angeles While they we're bewail-
ing the inevitable newspaper horror,
the headlines, and all the hideous de-
tails of divorce. Peachblow felt re-
| newal of her occult power.
divorce nothing!" she said; "I'll
just forget him. I'll just unmarry
myself quietly. and erase my memory
from his mind"
She said this in the very presence
i of Mr.. Winsor who had called with
his lawyer to confer with Peachblow,
her parents and their lawyer, John
Elphinstone.
AS soon as Peachblow spoke, n curl
Gus look came over Claude Winsor's
face. Again the earth jolted and spun
backward, then raced forward once
more.
Its nothing" said Mr.. Elphin.
stone, "but one of our little California
earthquakes. Quite nothing at ALL"
He slipped his arm about Peach
blow to sustain her, and found the at
titude singularly comfortable. Togeth-
er they watched Claude Winsor star
ing at them with look of bewilder-
ment. Then he bowed and said:
Pardon me, l entered the wrong
set-hOuse, by mistake"
He staggered out and the next thing
he knew he was sitting on his porch
dandling his baby before his original
wife while the publicity man took
snapshots for the magazines.
Mr.. Elphinstone chung to Peachblow
until her father interviewed and said ::
"What right have you to stand there
embracing my daughter as if you were
announcing your engagement to herr"
"And why nOt?" said Elphinstone
| see no ODJecJlO0, murmureQ
Peachblow who felt a sudden empti-
ness in her life. "After all, who could
make better husband than q
lawyer?'
And so in short time extensively
engraved cards conveyed the infor-
nation that Mr. and Mrs. Greene an
nounced the marriage of their daugh-
ter Ellen Anne to John Elphinstone,
Esquire.
Those who have experienced 1t, saw
that there is nothing like being the
wife of lawyer. For a time Peach
blow agreed with this in it's simplest
Implication; then she amended It to:
There's nothing like it because
nothing else could be so bad"
She had husband who tore himself
| from her society of mornings and
went forth to do battle for women
clients over whose wrecked lives he
waxed so eloquent that his tears were
rivalled by those of the jury and
strong judges bent their heads and
wept secretly on the papers where
| judges make idle marks to pass away
the time.
Elphinstone not only spent hours
upon hours in his Office with exquisite