Show Love on a Ladder By JANE OSBORN Copyright Illness Doctor serious nA CASES of If N OA O I Lr his IN yN Lanning own family did not t but attend when Martha members had ot of midsummer night ht In that hysterIcs accidentally encountered Lanning sj when act of eloping with her in n. n the did not c consider tier her he Peter Letson seriouS enough to require condition of an outside physicIan Sef servIces the 1116 cIrcumstances cIrcum- cIrcum Ire Haying HavIng h hysterics under the mi entirely normal ormal Hut But stances was symptoms needed treatment treatment treat- treat even no normal of after tor Peter had been dismissed dismissed dis- dis ment so missed Doctor with Lanning a curt an good a lol look night of mute mute from entreaty from Martha and tearful Inning escorted his sobbing Doctor Lanning Ster daughter to her room gave g aye her a aX X drInk of cold water and told her togo togo to togo in her room for go to be bed and to stay two or three days The interruption of at Marthas Martha's elope- elope accidental as faras farI far faras met met had been quite as Doctor Lanning was concerned He Ile Head I had ad been roused at midnight by the I bedside telephone A ringing of his him to come comeS wanted country patient It S once and rather drowsily but w with th thill doctor had put on his ill aJI speed the I clothes and had gone downstairs and andI to get his car when out DUt to the garage I the driveway he DC heard whispers In realized ahead of him Before he even en couple standing there that the tire young Martha and Peter ieter ere were his dau daughter of at Letson he heard a shrill shriek harm alarm He Ile knew the voice votes was vas Martha's Marthas Mar blot has tha's and Martha was standing there thereIn therein in In hat and light coat with a little trav tray travelIng traveling eling bag The really surprising thing about It all as Doctor Lanning thought after he got his daughter to promise that she would not make another attempt to elope during his absence and had anally started off otT In his car was that there was no sane reason why Martha and Peter should have planned an elopement Doctor Lanning didn't realize then that the elopement had come as the tho result of Marthas Martha's desire to have what she the considered a romantic marriage And now for the first time Doctor Lanning felt decided disapproval ol of Peter and when the next morning Peter telephoned to a ask k permission to speak with him and Martha the doctor doctor doc doc- tor curtly refused He also warned the tine young man that any letters or messages he might send t to his daughter daugh daugh- daughter ter would not be delivered She wasat was wasat wasat at present confined d to her room In a state of nervous excitement From a distance Peter watched the Lanning house and when he saw the doctors doctor's car start out on his morning mornIng morn morn- Ing round of at calls he lie cautiously dr drew w near Painters were at work on the tho house looking house looking at them Peter had a abright abright abright bright idea And when Doctor Lanning Lan ning returned an hour or so later he might have ha observed that whereas three men had been working on ladders ladders lad lad- ders aers and scaffolds when he ire left there were Vere now four men in spattered paint spattered white overalls and regulation white canvas caps About ten o'clock the next morning Doctor Lanning hacked his iris car out of the garage and down clown the driveway that ran close to the house hOlLe and then to the road Marthas Martha's room was on that s side e of the house louse Just above the tine dl driveway driveway Doctor ewa Doctor LanninG had gone to the time garage from flom a back door of the house and had not noticed a n painters painters painter's paint ers er's long ladder braced against the side of at the house with base planted In the gravel driveway Doctor Lanning LannIng Lanning Lan Lan- ning reversed his car He lIe backed and then above e the sound of at his engine I he heard a n shout a rattling of or wood and a splash of something limp and liquid on the top of his car nr This was the thc pall pail of paint that had been held hv hy the painter on the ladder which the car hit as the doctor backed from flom the garage The fhe ladder lay Iny tint on the Ire ground ground Doctor Doctor Lanning saw It as ns he quickly got out of his car to Investigate He lIe looked anxiously to see if he ire had extinguished some poor painter when he knocked the ladder down lie looked up and there he saw a tall young o m man In white overalls clinging tl desperately to the window sill sill and then he saw sow two fair arms stretch out the open window and after n a few tew seconds sec sec- oads when It seemed as ns If It the young man might lose his hold on the win dow sill entirely his tall tail lank figure was drawn Into the house Doctor Lanning hurried upstairs find and into his daughters daughter's room lIe He opened the door and saw Martha Marth standing there with the painters painter's arms about her her anti and the painter was Peter Letson Doctor Lanning began to laugh laUth so too did Peter and finally Martha l I 11 had to see to Martha-to see what she sire wanted me lice to do about the elopement elopement elope elope- ment stammered P Peter ter and since you wouldn't let me even write I got the painter to give me a n Job Joh T i bribed Mini him n for the privilege of worl working on this sides of the house I have spent most of my time for two days s paint Ing the frames of f Marthas Martha's The T windows paInt Is V so thick there I T J dare tIare rc s sn I say v It will m have to be scraped or chopped off off orr- And then I came alon along and knocked the ladder out from under yOU laughed the doctor It very cry InconsIderate was of you to let tine the paint drop on the top of my that car have ha to be s scraped raped oil off too lie lle paused nn anti 1 looked Martha and Peter Youre whimSically at I to try another elopement not going are objections you ou No Ao to n a regular I 1 wedding an time you Vou and Martha wont want It J I |