Show WOOED WEDDED SPANKED dJ fORGIVEN 11 i 8UORS u un young Breckenrldge telephoned for another car and In half an hour It chugchugged up and once more little Miss English smiled They hurried along swiftly in the second car to Washington and theio put the auto In a convenient garage all three taking tak-ing the train to Stoubenvllle O And here their troubles really began be-gan Fearing pursuit all the time the youngsters wanted to get married just as soon as they could Meanwhile the angry father of Miss English and tho angry father of Miss Bailey began to think that something was wrong The trio had only been going ostensibly osten-sibly to the Dawson races near by and why had they not returned Soon the telephone wires In all directions were made hot by the two fathers trying to locale the fugitives By this time they were at the county coun-ty clerks ofHco In Steubcnvlllo But oven before that Ir English had got wind of their direction and telephoned by lCng distance wire to Steubenvllle Nothing doing said the clerk laconically la-conically when Clark Breckenridge brought Miss Ethel in for a license Wove heard from papa The three turned and fled Why father might get here any minute gasped the girl we must get away somewhere Young Breckenrldge was resourceful resource-ful enough He bundled the two girls aboard a trolley car and lu a few minutes they wore over the state line Into West Virginia where it isnt sohard to get married Dr Englishs phone hadnt reached that far and by hard work they got a license and found a parson who was willing to tie the knot The Home Coming Then the young culprits decided togo to-go back to Brownsvlllo and make a clean breast of the whole thing And Annie Bailey went along It was ten oclock at night when they got back tired out dusty hungry and happy though a little frightened at what they ahead had done limo news had gone of them Friends of both bride and hrldegioom tho families and relatives drawn by mules and and a big wagon filled with serenadors was at the sta lion Besides there were the two sis and two brothers of the bride tern of their the sisters to give her a piece out iiilud and tho brothers to take It of Clark Breckenrldge sisters started toward young The Mrs Breckenrldge the moment she True to her new oft the car stepped the brldo resented their Inter llgnlty The sisters sought to drag fercnce bride wouldnt have It Tho her home there was a halepulling at all and right In front of everybody match for such sad ending rather a It was little romance The brides a pretty were all trying to got her to go family and their Breckenrldgcs the home determined that were equally friends bride be let alone The bride Clarks the Miss grooms friends won out and Ethel that was found herself triumphantly triumph-antly escorted to the Breckenridge home Thrashed by Bridegroom When Dr English heard how things had come outhe was scouring the countryside for any tiaco of his missing miss-ing daughter by that tlmeho sent his two tons to bring her home Clark Breckenrldgo piomptly thrashed both for attempting to Interfere In his family fam-ily affairs Dr English l was furious Ill bring her home he declared and he drove right over to the Breck enrldgo place from his farm at Red thoM township Ho stalked boldly in and was confronted con-fronted by the brldo Then ho did what fathers have done before but perhaps never to a bride Ho took Mrs Clark Breckenrldgo you please right across his knees and gave her a good sound oldfashioned spanking Now come homo where you belong I be-long added Dr English As for you young man ho shouted shout-ed turning to the bridegroom of less than a day Ill seo what the law can do In your case If I can do anything any-thing to punish you you may be sure I will do m Next day Dr English had Clark Breckenridge his now sonlnlaw arrested ar-rested on a charge of falsely swearing to his daughters ace Then ho sent a messenger to West Virginia to look up the facts and find out the law of tho state regarding the marriage of minors mi-nors Ho was going to have it annulled an-nulled If It were possible Begin Legal Proceeding Clark Breckonrldgo sued out a writ of habeas corpus In turn to regain possession of his bride getting out on ball on the perjury charge Tho town took sides it was going to be a fight to a finish whether or not a father might forbid the marriage of a 15yearold daughter and whether or I i S I i m I i t I t Jt I 2 71 I 5 Lp I S 4V not a husband after the marriage I could not take his bride from her father and hrlng her to his home I Tho English family threatened all sorts of punishment for the bridegroom bride-groom the Breckenridge family prom ised all sorts of reprisals Meanwhile the roar little bride deprived of her husband of an hour was weeping away at home as If her heart would break And that was the final straw that broke the camels back of the fathers hitherto unrelenting resolution Dr English couldnt bear to see his pretty little daughter weeping all the time and begging to be allowed to see her young husband Do you really love him demanded tho doctor when he found that imprisonment im-prisonment at home was doing not a bit of good More than anything In tho world sobbed the girl Oh cant I see him for just a little min mite Wont you see him Wont you talk to him For Just a day Dr English held out Still little Mrs llreckenrldgo kept on weeping Then ho gave in Ill forgive you Bald Dr English taking tho girl wife in hill arms I guess you love him and I guess ho loves you Well send for him right away The Forgiveness Tho next minute Dr English was at tho telephone calling up tho Breck enrldgo home and finally ho got Clark Breckonrldgo himself on the wire He had learned that under West Virginia law the marriage Tin perfectly legal and It was the father I inlaw not the soninlaw who found I himself forced to glvo in Como over he said Youre forgiven for-given but dont do It again It took young Bieckenrldgo only a tow mlntucs to dash over to Hcdstono township to claim his brldo of 48 hours before There were kisses and handshakes hand-shakes all around and oft went the bride suffused In smiles and tears to make her now home with her young husband Now the perjury cult Is dropped and the habeas corpus proceedings are quashed After Ml says Dr English I cant bl me them so much I might have dono the same thing myself The bride Is tho youngest daughter of Dr English a very wellknown physician phy-sician lie has n magnificent farm well kept and stocked The mother Is dead All tho family are high spirited There arc three daughters all bright and vivacious The eldest Is the wife of Charles C Carter a leading young lawyer of Brownsville Josephine tho second daughter Is single A son B J English M D died recently The children inherited money from their mothers relatives and a recent sale of coal acreage gave Ethel 47000 from that deal alone And sho has other money Tho father wanted tho girl to go to school but she opposed and it is believed fear of being sent to some tightlaced Institution had much to do with this elopement She was approaching the romantlo age end took the first man who asked her In this caso tho man was quito attractive Ho Is a handsome young fellow Immensely popular with young women He Is the eldest son of William Wil-liam Breckenrldge a rich retired hotelman hotel-man The lad has always had a freehand free-hand with money and his latest exploit ex-ploit was to drlvo his fathers automobile auto-mobile to tho point of exhaustion In running away with his bride |