Show rt When Lucy Eloped and and HowE How Hovi E By By H LOUIS RA t i TIllS time tine next week youn young lady Indy George now P ow land nd father to Lucy you vou and your mother will III be headed for Europe is atch your step Hell Lucy regarded her Irate parent JP imp Plen Please e may I 1 write to Cr Craig I while I am away daddy You ou may not I If II he sends YO you yo J flowers flo when you sail nil throw them overboard o No dau daughter of ot mine shall have bare anything to do with a son of ot that man Blakesley i dont don't even en know ImO the I young whippersnapper Dont Don't o know Inow him 1 AnI DJ that's where the trouble lies Iles I crier cried poor Lucy It If J you would only consent to meet Craig you rOil would di dis discover cover COfer that whatever er his frillier father bl be CraIg himself Is an ace There was nothing however howe to tobe tobe be gained bained hy by further ar argument Either lle and Cral Craig must take matters Int into their own hands and run away or pressure must be be brought brou ht ti to hear Dear froth some new source The Time p giving each other up was unthInkable unthinkable able As soon as os a n slammed door an- an announced announced an announced her fathers father's departure she called Craig on the telephone There is no time to be lost Craig Father Is about to have ha me taken talen It In Europe nut But first Ive I've a bit of an nn n l Idea n nI I would like to try out You know that lint I have felt It was Tas not quite lo loyal al of me to let you take me to td see your father knowing how dad feels fels about him But nut I am nm ready to throw loyalty loyall I overboard In a hood good cause calise What I is the best hour of th the day to beard your I parent In h Ills his Is deni den Evidently E Craig gave e her lier whatever er data was necessary for precisely at three n a slender fur coated girl Irl was ns admitted ad admitted 1 to the Inner office once of John Jolin II B Blakesley and any observer could have hll seen that there was a scared caree lit little tle tie look about her eyes After all however there va was noth noth- nothing ing Ins remotely terrifying about the very cry genial man who rose nt at her lier entrance It must be thought Lucy that Hint only In hIs hu business dealings did dill he justify her fathers father's opinion So this tills Is Rowlands Rowland's daughter was his greeting My I boy hoy tells me your father opposes this match For Formy Formy or my part I consider Craig a n darn arn lucky be beggar gar Lu Lucy y dimpled Ive I come ome to ask you to change your mind shout Iliad I she said demurely The two of 01 them talked an hour chile hile out In the he office two of John ls l's prospective e customers cooled their heels hels That Tha evening George Rowland nowland was to the lie telephone I Yes Yes es- es es's yes s 's VellIr Mr Well Vell Mr Ir Blakesley Youre absolutely opposed to- to to what To your son ln ha having anything to todo todo todo do with my daughter You want me hie well to-well well of all thIngs 1 I nes iles coming here hero tomorrow after afternoon afternoon noon to n ask k her to elope dope and you want me to throw him our ont on That's exactly what I had in mind m myself Good Goodnight Goodnight night Furiously he turned to his damn ten h ter There you iou J ou are 1 ht lie he shouted Your your young oun man mans man's father doesn't want you ou In his family any anymore snore more titan than I want him in mine Now wheres where's your our pride nut But Lucy a avoided n R direct reply Instead What was the trouble be- be between be between tween inn Oll two 1 she asked I never knew xa exactly tI lie Ill trimmer me good and plenty 10 inthe n the market said Rowland ol shortly 10 using Information that I hat had l given I In n as a friend t h Igor How How n unlike him Lucy thoughtfully nil all you know It salt ald her father hut lint her wordy word were IC tl At lea least t It hind been hn unlike time tim he had bad always s 's supposed to tobe tobe be time The following afternoon Lucy walk wait iu Ing g for or Cral Craig In ht n tie lie library saw her Luther drive up tip mind and commie come up tip the Ilic steps Sn So he lie was going tin 1111 to be bl there thel In III throw rat ral out nut I Well Kell ni mil lent he hew w he be able Ihle to see sec w hll a i splendid I young Joun mini nim he w WJ wis nr t But hit sh shu hoped she hadn't mm II i hit hll too fur r I u ail Ins fur Ilia von con nn of ot leys ley's le leys ley's t demanded lit her father f Then its 1 nod Ill walt wait too ton he lie said curtly mind 1111 threw himself Into one of the big bi bl lea The fI mu rollot rollof roll ot of o Cu ig's sport I her lier henri hen rl to 10 her I A 1 second Inter later and h be tie r ron on the threshold looking from one oll oneto oneto i to 10 the lie It other oilier hr Bow ruse rose slowly with willi n a keen I glance lit at t ral Your illier f-illier tolls IllIs mime you are pIa planning linIn to elope wit w try my daughter he lie sold I quietly Very cry 1 well 1 tool took pi lui s1 ae a for Lucy and her mol her on the Homeric I inn im of it cancelling It If for a later Isiler dale and the two Iwo of 1011 go n for fill a honey honeymoon moon I Then drawing Lucy hits his left and his hi right hand to In ral I 1 know enough to tn i I have ha been Joeln wrung wrong he tic said silil alet it II got ot under inv skin wham ii I 11 h I your us opposed to 0 my 01 mv girl here anti and andI I went round this morning to see Ie him mini It In tt II the course of conservation I learned 11 that I hat our 3 our fathom peter lIe 11 the he In Information formation I 1 sent liliu lie Ie showed show tie proofs of Ills his ln ha having bIn barn ill III In the th beyond even 11 the PIt 10 reach ot of a 8 telegram I 30 I apologise tee mind mind- und 1 well bless Sou J ou lItI my oy children n |