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X ' Ex I' 'X'- Jr ‘ iOi t By arrangementfor this paper corresponding to the Runaway June” may now be seen at the leading moving picture theaters By arrangement made with the Mutual ilm Corporation not only possible io read “Runaway June” each week but also io see moving pictures illustrating special a photo-drama installments of it is afterward was still June — and portrait and pressed it his June! his arms and that sank to by and down his lips the bed “Come caughtup bS ' held It and in in” heartily invited with soft eyes Mother Moore by one sobbing right hand and by Iris ather Jr J Jr Jrg manand not would them about the black Warner now Vandyked ff a r a Blye Is there anythingI dan do for lady was studying the groitp with a Blye penetration Mrs began to worry Iris “We have only a minute to stay” beganIris starting herself Also she began to suspect! were sitting in That last was At moment Jqne to talk as- they went into the library “I I’ll her specialty “If you xs ill tell big walnut paneled library and Bobbie wandered heard to Iris me the nature of from Junie” Tris rattled on ather with Mr Blye in Moore in the They were grim and silent as they sped away your business When he saw the girls he started back may be able to locate called Iris She walked straight over they rode the black Vandyked in Sherry’s go Bobbie!” parlor v While him” “Don’t came man “Pro straight up to him and held out her hand sat at the end of long table between a jovial '“I “She missedher purse” glibly went on Iris while want my daughter!”blurted John Moore his host with a gray lips duce!” Bobbieeyed her with admiration “She’s afraid she squaring mustache and a ponderous man lost it Did she leave it here?” with heavily lidded eyes and short hair “Oh!” And Mrs Blye’s voice rose “What’s the price?” he asked “Your daughter!” She glared at them flor “‘Will you “Oh a hundred” “Right on that table” And Mrs Moore's eyes Theref were a dozen placed at the table and wine moment sparkled She took it from a drawer in a desk hissed at every plate but the others of the please “How did you guess my roll?” inquired the cheerful wait?”she asked and sailed back through of bills with nonchalant girl careless included a half dozen vivacious and the hall could hear her sharp voice telephoning up a handful “That was money” gayly They Bobbie dragging always about at June smiled in spite of hci Mr if it virtue The three She had called her club and they ease which laughed Moore as were a gowned young women were dancing husband’s Bobbie glanced at Iris She was embarrassment She had always been amused at as serene as a men talked in low tones their heads bent together heard her exciaim indignantly “Where Sherry’s?” plate of ice and the black back blazing She had her hat in her the matter of fact and open Vandyked man was the most silent She was way in which these cream two discussed finances “I’ll send it to her” offered Iris and Mrs inally he beganto talk and grew and hand Bobbie counted his money Moore enthusiastic “He’s at Sherry’s!”she shrilled and held back a smilingly put it in her hand presently' he drew forth June’s little gold watch fragment of it “Here’s your hundred An electric coupe stood at the door She slammed All three and I’m seven to the good” “Why didn’t June wire us?” puzzled father his into that turnedon the lights and rolled away with Then he flashed open the lid men bent June the significance of the tableau fists bulging in the pockets of his eagerly it the lovely features in the capacity of her machine “Oh!” gasped as gay smoking over They gazed upon as much vigor as was jacket of the Bobbie’s suddenly dawned upon her Why they were runaboutdartedafter her and passed runaway bride their faces bent close “Yes why didn’t she?” together her and then the limousinewith Mr and almostin the same position in which she had seen Mother’s voice was full They clapped the black Vandyked man came Ned’s piteous little beggar of anxiety but as she saw herself when she was the unruffled expression on the shoulder Mrs Moore and Ned of Iris face she “Thanks Bobbie” said Iris and turned to June Blethering’s If It was duringthis time that June Warner sitting began to bridle Poor June! It had been Bard for her to leave “If you want in struggle for could wire her friend couldn’t she’ wire quietly in of 'the library with and those voices there in the library more honey your Junie why a Bobbie beloved down but comer Iris and with her mother’s purse still in her hand she had come right back and I’ll make Bobbie her mother? made up her mind very firmly that neither give it to us” “You havtx such slow delivery out here” promptly heard familiar voice in the vestibule she nor Ned could be happy if she was always to can’t possibly take it! feel that she was a chattel She June shrunk away “Oh explainediris “Daddy!” She dashed from her chair in a flash ran back to the didn’t know you were going to ask Bobbie!” “Just what did she say?” and went upstairs to her room desk for Ned's photograph than steppedlightly out “Whereelse do get it?” blurted the bosom friend “Phone mother can’t find my purse Did forget “Where’s Junie?” Mrs Moore had pushed through on the tiny side porch jumped down to the little “Bobbie’s the easiest way” it? Extremely happy and fled as light as a thistledown along Bushelsof love to all iheadof the men “Can’t you see “That’s just it” June pointed out lune” John Moore w’alked straight to Bobbie Blethering the side of the house and out at the little grocer’a and gate what a beggara dependent woman is? Don’t you Twenty minutes were all the callers could spare shook an awe inspiring finger at that young can’t accept a gift of see that if They drove down the boulevard A taxicab fiashmoney from my Where now shouldshe go? The apartments their man can’t possibly let you accept for me a husband ed by them but they did not notice it Ned War“Where’s my girl?” he demanded home hers and Ned’s! She hurried up in that direction but at the first comer she stoppedfor an She had and darted over toward Broadway realized three things first I almost simultaneously— that they might out of the Bletheringhouse come at any instant and see her second that she had no key third that Ned It might come there would be June the He and J Jr & ' slook Moore ’Bobbie both tell June x Mrs The “I am you?” Mrs was “Will you June’s father - the get' Jour please wrapsCharlotte?” finally said and rose “We are going order the car” screwlike I ’ a ' ' Copyright 1915 by EPISODE SECOND Pursuit of the Runaway In CHAPTER HE a Publication Corporation Serial Bride I bride who led the chase seem-"ed for the traffic opened be lucky her like magic and closed behind her wall As she into Central runaway to like partywhich before turned ifty-ninth street safe from immediate pursuit park at the black Vandyked man’s car was in a snarl at ifty-sixth As he came out of that pockethe leaned forward after a look ahead and spokecrisply to his driver They stoppedat the Plaza hotel arid the the step! hurrying up suddenly paused man With a smile he drew from his pocket a tiny Inside the lid was the gold watch and opened it picture of beautiful a young girl with a handsome collie The black Vandyked man gazed at the picture for a moment in frowning meditation It was the runaway bride! As he a entered the hotel Ned’s taxi with the fluttering ' independence a I I I I I embankment - I white park ribbons passed and turned into the Warner turned out of it at headingfor Riversidedrive Bletheringsat pouringher voluble the ears of Bobbiein the Blethering Seventy-second just as June street that hour Iris At sadness into on Riverside home chum drive She had been school-day bosom friend of June Moore but Moore only a June Warner and June Warner might become a stranger “Rot” observed Bobbie “How long are they going be to gone?” “Three weeks It’s an eternity Bobbie!” “Rot” said Bobbie “Why doesn’t somebody and there now the was June no I Instant the to ' fsir life:: 1 il answer J : MnMnWjlMMBMBfinnniM C'ir J J ' i : only wBi and immediatelythe hollow came through He did not return to Instead the caller announce any one howeverherself into the arms rushed straight in and threw looked by and he watched went the to the door gfeg and gs jiha M : : dear?” do This from his loneliness in at Sherry’s but Gilbert Blye share in the hilarity He had risen black eyed the most young woman the party called him to task for his a host replied Blye and the three men smile “I’ll dance one round with Tommy “Certainly” I “What did he “He— he gave to handkerchief to her mouth Broadway she hailed a On evening of secret scheming “You’re up to some devilment” she charged playfully tweaking his beard “Come and dance with me” Tommy” he told her with that queer “Sorry smile on his lips “but I’ve a previousengagement” She “She can wait” pouted the gill dragged Blye away from the table “Take my car Gil!” called the gray xnustached tableau out for him her sob taken small go when vivacious of “Where’s Ned?” he quite naturally inquired The only answer was a sob “Junie!” pleaded Iris “Where’s Ned?” “I—I—I ieft Ned!” June wailed “I ran away!” say!” protested Bobble “Aw a sparkling was had to Iris “June!” Bobbie Bletheringstood for a moment then held taxi irixinMMilLLuHlfflDQlMa : - -86 All just rung Bletheringbutler of had likely place suddenly choke back passing that doorbell?” It most She W L i a then Iris Wk? I money!” money” Iris me repeated this numbly “He gave you awhile “Did you say he gave you money?” June “Yes” straightenedup as she recognized the difficulty which lay before her Iris while a was not exactly a thoughtful warm and loyal friend personnor a sensitive one and might perhaps the deep ethical significance of not understand what had happened Bobbie didn’t count “Just after the wedding breakfast mother gave M wl round was over however Gilbert Blye saw an apparition in the doorway and his face The apparitionwas a tall angular turned cold with a long high nose and high arched woman brows who was trying to bore Gilbert Blye through and through with a double eyed glare of burning after 1 f f A X exchanged 111 go” that Before e ferocity shrilled: nione?- “Who ' hurried He over to his “I wife She had J that woman?” shall explain nothing” said is Gilbert “I’ra -I if and me a purse table at home had I that on not left have the library known my predicament When Ned and were missedthe purse While too late it was on the train however was telling Ned aboutit I and I she And shuddered with had humiliation “Then her June I with vigor more the a recollection dream” went a bound now to make of on them saw myselfbeing paid for being a wife as pays the servants and Ned pays his stenographer Ned giving me saw as understand I money myself always holding out And she was a most my hand pathetic little figure as she upturned her palm “I couldn’t stand it! So threw down the $30 and slipped off the train and came back” you had no said Iris “But money!” “I got on the train anyhow and sold my watch to She a funny old lady” June explained paused to remember something—the black Vandyked man who now had her watch He had bought it from gives it to beggars! I saw for charity!” I the old lady on the train so that June could some That him She redeem it was very nice of his card and was reaching for it when she that Iris had gone to the telephone “You mustn’t telephone anybody!” the day had noticed bride insisted “You would be betraying dence!” runaway my confi “But what do you intend to do?” “What about Ned?” Bobbie suddenly blurted "Ned’s a darling!” And June’s lip quivered “He’s But an angel! cannot be a burden to be carried shall stay on Ned’s back away from Ned until achieve my own Independence Then we can walk together hand in hand—in mutual self respect and accepting from each other nothingbut love! “It is for his happinessas well as for mine” June Insisted firmly “The world will’not be happy until women walk in strict equality with men Iris dear” She saw by the face of her friend that cold logic was wasted The two girls walked upstairs and Iris ushered her still bosom friend into a cozy little guest room Meanwhile Ned Warner beganto be familiar with the bronze panther on the overhangingrock in the park and casting back in his memory reflected that he must have passedit aboutfive times But why had June married him? Why had she the aisle of the BrVnport chapel with walked down him that morning? Perhaps the black Vandyked man was married and marriage was the only road to June’s own freedom He could stand this train of thoughts no longer He whirledup Riverside drive past the very house where June was then talking to Iris and turnedhis key in the lock of the place which was to have been Home! And this was his return! Here home were all the furnishingswhich they had bought Here had clustered all his dreams of hap piness find I I I together be must his task to that man! gift of money please Iris from for a Don’t principle be angry “Oh Mr Thomas Rot!” exploded Bobbie “That attitude is at the bottomof the whole thing Bobbie” argued June with spirit “Because the man has supported the woman for ages he has made himselfthe master That destroys the woman’s self respect “She’s a fine kid’ she’s going to draw been handed from a I unkind replied I £ My poor dear boy I cannot explain in a letter what am free dear Ned forgive You must not try to happened today When you understand and your unhappy bride I I when he saw his “I’ll you she heard from June?” husked Ned you?” The voice of Moore with and one ed said down” Moore “Why are you not to Ned and one over her shoulder -find to Mrs Her letter was Moore The husband address I I I unlocked I with I her?” I “I don’t “She voice arnville” know” left me There the on chokein Ned’s train—slipped away at was a thing do such a without good Mrs Moore with firm conviction happened?” This sharply from Moore “I don’t understand She told me she lost her gffve her some purse money and she went to pillowed her sleep with her head on my shoulder more comfortablyon the seat by and by and went into the smoker droppedin to look at her about back after we every five minutes and when came “She wouldn’t declared cause!” “What darted with I up a They trace the stairs but in frightenedface searched for all the hall Iris met him “She is gone!” her then but there was no CHAPTER der dress hat with blue stockings with the “Is of the laven-JraaMk the red posies on it yellow feather tan shoes and green the she was She left gone And he showed Here it is” them the three crumpled bills one partly torn “How’dri you know she returned to New York?” had passed money III RS seat “Howdy Aunt Debby!” Bobbie Bletheringwith his chattel beside him swung up the drive in his fast little runabout Junie’s parents came to the door John Moore in the blue and tan smoking jacket which he had until refused to wear tendernessat Junie’s departure had brought him to it and Charlotte Moore in the gray silk dress embroidered by June’s own hands J approaching ‘ “I saw that he an her The I from height got off at the-next station master at her station and arnville getting train saw on a down express and overhauledher as we came Central station her leave the saw I took into the I “I “You want have to all station sister her to A of maid might have announced that some eye arches something back!” Moore know the truth!” Ned can tell you” declared I charg- " He a wanted to sec Mr Blye and since home would Mrs Blye care'to say He came to New York on an early train Blye rose instantly She sailed straight into Mrs the hall and confrontedthe five earnest visitors “Did you say Mr Blye returned on an early train?” Ned tried not to “I “Yes” speak curtly saw him” - x been one had he was not at where he was? i get into a taxi” are holding “You ed telephoned reported Grand and was in shrill voiced with a big green parrot which length and sharpnessof nose and converse demanded Moore here?” called Iris no!” puffed “Dat’s hi Aunt Debby yonder!” The runabout was gone with a whiz and fcsvxe-diately after came the family limousine “Is June here?” called all three of the occupants CHAPTER GILBERT BLYE arnville onthe June “Lawdy goin’ I II UNT DEBBY came around the corner Moore house in all her glory—stiff A circle ( her of I A contemptuously leaving her stunned As he by this unexpected revolt went down the steps he heard her shrieking somethingafter him and he hurried As he dashed out of the door he into a were in ran grpup who coming They were and the Mooresj the Bletherlngs Ned Warner and he was upon them and past them and jumping into the luxuriouslyfurnishedracing limousine with the before they realized that little watch in his hand this was the man they were seeking he goes!” cried Ned “There “The scoundrel!” Blye moving rapidly away saw the confusionand blamed his wife with the scene for now she was in rushing the lead of the excited group which was toward him to: I -will JUNE decided left her The house of the Moores at Brynport was dark arrived the dear old house It stood June Dear Daddy and Mummy— cannot explain in a letter when back amid the dim trees with a dignity and beauty will why was compelled to leave Ned Some day she had which make you understandand forgive Please be good to never before thoroughlyappreciated dear Ned and love and at the gate she hesitated as if with no one to YOUR LITTLE JUNIE “Here’s the man!” shouted Ned his voice full of welcome her she had no right here He held a pair of gloves in one hand sudden fury There was a welcome though and a joyous one and a card in the other “Theseare June’s gloves loud hearty one a series of delighted a barks from They were lying on the table and this card was in her dog Bouncer He had known her very presence far back in the shed them!” from It was the work called Iris but Ned “They’re my gloves!” laughed of but a minutefor June to clamber through an at her There was no mistakingthose dainty blue kitchen window and to rush upstairs get embroidered bits of white kid her maid Marie seize several garments and drag “Now I’ll tell you” went on Ned This man with her the astounded servant Miss Junie!” cried Aunt Debby out Gilbert Blye whose name now know for the first “Miss Junie! time with her from the was of breath from moment shp left me running but June only waved a until she He is a tall black Vandyked hand at her as the taxi swept out of the drive came here man and at arnville he was seen assisting June A limousinehad stoppedin front of the house 'on the down train saw and a black Vandyked them myself through the man had alighted but in the car window talking together want to find Gilbert window of the car he saw June’s face turnedwistfully Blye! Are you hiding him too?” And he turned toward the house and he ran forward savagely on Iris “Miss Moore!” he called but June’s taxi rattled He jumped in his Bobbie lounged forward “That’ll do Ned” he on own car and gave the word warned “Iris call June” and started in swift pursuit “Junie!” They heard Iris throwing doors open The two machines were still in sight when tho and running through the house calling June Ned of Bobbie and Iris runabout dashed around the tense voice “Sit of it?” what of it!” said Iris “June has see any of you just yet and she won’t!” two letters from the mantel She gave to took looked was straightened here” he said “What you not Mrs Moore came hurryingout her face ashen She ran down to the taxi and “Junie!” she cried She peeredin throughthe open window came running back and caught Ned by the arm “Where is girl?” my she isn’t here?” Ned “Then gasped “Come inside?’ John Moore'svoice had lost all its He led the into the library color way “Now what is all this about? Why are you here alone?” “I don’t know June is somewhere in New York I in you had heard her” was hopes from “We did! She telegraphedto Iris that she had Iris left here with it to mail it to lost her purse June” “Then that’s where she is!” There was relief in Ned’s she’s tell expres son-in-law’s slowly Bobbie “Well Iris “Have “Isn’t Bobbie heartily “but if the line on money which has man to a woman she’ll have the mint” to get it fresh from will do fretted Iris “What you June?” “If only had that purse mummy gave me mused June “She got that from your father” Bobbiewas enough to remind her that was “Oh daddy’s money” she brightly no trace of concernon her brow “and it’s the last can take from them now that I’m married Iris couldn’t you go out to the house and say you’ll send it to me?” the thing!” Iris was bubbling immediately “Just in “You mustn’t let them know here” warned June “You mustn’tlet any one know!” Within five minutesIris and Bobbie in the swift little runabout were headed for Brynport In the library June had found a picture ©f Ned among some other intimate photographs and it was with constant reference to this and amid constanttalking to it and constant caressing of it that she penned her importantmessage: make petrified if stiained said Qtr'l?'’ ner was in the taxi and he was out and up on the porch before the machine had come to a full stop John Moore answered the bell and he stood as sion love dies” and My tzTheres " husband? your I’m fighting (JJelcomefrornJourtcer JJ &o'ni7? JJ-rtcfulzr “I mummy It I same see?” - He I he tipped the porter a dollar his niq? cheery way then he turned around way! gave me $30— in just the Don’tyou in he through!” might not I until : - - at once “She’s just whiskers has Iris done The gone! gentlemanwith Mr Bobbie and gone! Whooh!” corner there rolled an Around It gone! just done black Miss has just done was the brilliantly lighted and in electric sat an and high it coupe angular arched high long nose woman with brows beneath which glittered two sharp eyes “Say!” shrilled the occupant of the electric Aunt Debby her broad hand on her stomach pointed down the road TO be conwtoed a I i I a J ' - i |