Show TELEGRAM FICTION FICTION- I Fugitive Heiress By Priscilla W Wayne CAST OF C CHARACTERS Pauline Pony Polly McDale the fugitive heiress sole ole Inheritor or ot McDale mil mu- lions Peter Harrington handsome college graduate Helen Lane Petes Pete's childhood sweet- sweet heart Aunt Hester his only relative In preceding chapters Polly In love I with Pete whom she first saw laW working near her parents' parents estate has haa fled fied from her luxurious home horns to be near him In Sn Los Angeles they meet she as aa waitress In a restaurant he as aa a customer He confides that the next day he be Is leaving via trailer for tor the Iowa farm of ot his youth where he hopes to marry Helen During the night Poll Polly stows away In Inthe Inthe inthe the trailer Miles out of ot Los Loe Angeles Pete finds her He consents to her going along believing the girl poor and friendless Together they drive toward North Platte Neb where Aunt Hester Is waiting The maiden aunt whose hose friendship Polly Instantly wins add gaiety to the expedition as they drive on toward Iowa Pollys Polly's only worries are Petes Pete's Incessant talk about Helen and the fact that newspapers which she buys hurriedly when alone are re reporting reporting reporting re- re porting her abduction To allay her mothers mother's and grandfathers grandfather's fear she telephones the latter by long distance Now read chapter No 11 11 CHAPTER ELEVEN The telephone call might have seemed amusing to any person but the two persons persona so deeply engrossed engrossed engrossed en en- grossed in it Granddaddy you'll admit that Im I'm 20 Yes darling but what is it it- it Then go on with your trip please and let Jet me alone Im I'm having a good time time time- What do you plan to do Polly tell grandfather Im on my way to Iowa with a little old lady She's a darling Im I'm going to work for her what Youre going to Im Tm going to work for her Now see ee here grandfather you said you'd give me roe my own way I plan to work for her that's all What kind of work What Kind Of Work Housework Maid work Any Any- thing There was vas a silence Then grandfathers grandfather's grandfathers grandfather's grand grand- fathers father's voice Has she got ason o. o son or anything A nephew I see And where will you be On a a. farm somewhere near Des Moines Ill I'll cable you when I find out just where An And dont don't worry Im I'm perfectly all right They're grand people Iowa people usually lly are grandfather grandfather grandfather grand grand- father agreed slowly especially farmers Look here Polly darling do you love the young man I I 1 I think so granddad Does he love you Well Im I'm not so sure about that But he be soon will if I have anything to say about it There was a a. chuckle from grandfathers grandfathers grandfather's grandfathers grandfather's grand grand- fathers father's end of the telephone Youre sure youre you're happy and perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- safe And will you cable I Yes Im I'm absolutely safe and end Ill I'll cable And you'll call off the police police po po- po- po lice Yes but you be careful Ill be plenty careful Dont Don't worry please dont With this the telephone conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion ended S I Polly grinned with pleasure placed the telephone back on its I hook look and went straight to bed I She did not trouble either to call calla a a. physician or to gargle her throat It seemed good then to hear Peters Peter's voice over the telephone the next morning How do you feel Grand Gran I just couldn't feel better better better bet bet- ter she he assured him Throat all right What Oh yes yes quite all allright allright right O 0 K Then Ill I'll drive right over and get you You check out of the hotel Aunt Hesters Hester's getting a grand breakfast Ill I'll be after atter you in 10 minutes And right after atter breakfast well we'll be on our way I Ican Ican Ican can hardly wait walt to be pulling into Iowa Breakfast in the trailer wes was de de- de The morning was crisp and cool The little house was cozy and pleasant The fire makes the trailer feel good Aunt Hester declared I dont don't believe were we're over winter here herein in Iowa Nebraska Aunt Hester Peter laughed Well it will be Iowa as soon as we cross the Missouri river Aunt Hester laughed And I can hardly wait walt until we do it it Iowa isn't at its very best In March Peter old Polly with as much assurance as though he owned the state Were getting there In good time Aunt Hester him I think they do most of the moving moving ing by bythe the first of March on farms At least that's what they used to do Peter lingered over h his break break- fast This wont won't be any usual spring for us Weve We've got more than thana a little to do I aim to stock the farm with the very best I can get Pedigreed stock and the latest in modern machinery Aunt Hester poured herself another another another an an- other cup of coffee And Polly Pollyand Pollyand Pollyand and I want the house furnished well not expensively of course but I modestly and in good taste We can afford that Of course Her Hep Spirits Rise Joyously Pollys Polly's spirits rose joyously There hadn't been any mention of the girl Helen whom she had already begun begun be be- I be-I beIgun gun to detest But Aunt Hester spoiled the perfect perfect per per- breakfast by referring to herI herI herI her I suppose Helen will want you to build her a new house But why The old house i. i is lovely if I remember it right The roms are big and airy Aunt Hester nodded wisely all very well too she agreed but most brides do want their own homes You cant can't blame them very much either son A bride doesn't want to live surrounded surround surround- ed by the memories and the housekeeping housekeeping housekeeping house house- keeping plans of another woman A bride wants to plan her own home If Helen wants me sue to build a ahome ahome a ahome home of our own I will Peter I told them gravely Well have I what we need in reason Ive I've planned and dreamed this homecoming homecoming homecoming home home- coming for Ive I've loved school and college and all of what happened happened happened hap hap- in California Aunt Hester Ive I've loved California too but somehow somehow somehow some some- how I think my hearts heart's been in Iowa all the time Youre like your dad Aunt Hester Hester Hester Hes Hes- ter grinned I thought maybe he wouldn't be happy on the farm When I sent him off to college I urged him to take a law course but he wouldn't listen He wanted to be a farmer And he was a good farmer And your mother loved it too She wouldn't have changed places with any ny city woman on earth Aunt Hester and Polly hurried their breakfast dishes Aunt Haster Hester Hester Hes Has ter had a notion to sit in the car car with Peter when they crossed over Into Iowa Weve We've only two or three i hours to go We can wash dishes when we g get t there You Sit in Fr Front nt With Pete Now you sit in front with Pete I Polly the talkative old lady raMbled rani- rani bled on Ill sit lIt in the back seat so I tan can stretch my rheumatic old legs up on the cushion if I wan want to Dear me Im I'm so excited that I can hardly breathe Im excited too Peter grinned I was thinking of that other day it it doesn't seem so many years tears since that day when we left Iowa think of the sad things Aunt Hester advised sagely Think ci of the happy things Ive got gota a lot to learn about I farming Peter mused I rem remember remember em ber some of the things my father did but probably I d dont don't nt remember remember remember ber very accurately ely But I can Mu learn larn S SS I dan can an always take a short course S at Ames and then of course Helens Helen's father is a m man i n of experience experience experience ex ex- ex- ex in iii farming Hell He'll give me methe methe methe the benefit of his experience I think that hi his general plan ing was similar to fathers What was your you fathers father s plan Polly asked She wasn't so much interested in the pl plan n as as she was in interested itt I. in keeping Peter from discussing discussing discussing dis dis- dis- dis cussing this thi girl Helen Well dad believed just as a good many neighbors did that it isn't the very best policy for an Iowa farmer to carry all his eggs in one basket Iowa land Ideal is for so many crops that dad believed in diversified farming He didn't put all his land into corn for instance He raised other things too Then if certain crops were bad other other- crops might be good The same way with hogs and cattle I think that its it's a very very good way It is a good way Aunt Hester told the two young people decisively Son let me pay th the toll toIL Ive I've got the change right handy here They were crossing the big bridge that separated Council Bluffs and Omaha Now just keep watching Polly Aunt Hester said Well soon see the Promised Land Thinking About Old Times As Polly sat by Peters Peter's side she was thinking of the stories her grandfather had told her Her grandfathers grandfather's parents had come to Iowa in a covered wagon Granddad Granddad Granddad Grand Grand- dad had often otten told Polly how his mother came as a bride to Iowa from front her far far away away home in Penn Penn- sylvania She had ridden on the seat of the covered wagon along by the side of her young husband and she had left all of her folks behind behind behind be be- hind never to see them again all for love of her adventurous young husband And now Polly her great grand daughter was returning to the state of her birth She sat at the side of the man she loved here in this thi modern luxurious automobile But Polly loved him enough yes even after just the few short days of their acquaintance to turn her herback herback herback back forever on her old home life and go with her man just as that girl who lived so long ago had gone Welcome to Iowa Peter said Continued Saturday y I S Copyright ight 19 1938 for The he Telegram |