The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1931 Page: 7 of 8
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1831.
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ahead with the preliminaries so
signedly.
Presently he turned off from
she opened her eyes. Much to her
surprise she saw they were far
window again.
“Peter, you are lost. This road
doesn’t go anywhere!"
last three stories had done noth-
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accompany Peter on a nation-wide
tour in their roadster as an ad-
vertising stunt. At the last minute
Little Bobby is engaged to act as
chaperon. They are waiting for
Bobby to show up to make the
start.
A few miles out Bobby becomes
tearful at being parted from her
sweetheart and Rowena insists on
Paso, Rowena hears
brother.
“Well, you are going to be, and
pretty damn quick," he said de-
cidedly.
With a wave of his hand he in-
dicated a little log cabin, desert-
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even than usual just at that
time because she was having some I
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til she found rouge, powder and
way while Carter keeps writing
Bobby to return to New York. The
morning after they reach Denver,
Peter and Rowena discover Bob-
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“Do you think your judge will
have any trouble getting the an-
nulment?"
“No"
“How long will it take?"
"I don’t know.”
“When will he start?”
“He’s started now.”
“Started now! Why, what do
Rowena and Peter are employ-
ployed by Rack Ruff Motors to
make a coast-to-coast trip, ad-
vertising the roadster. They take ]
Bobby along as chaperon but she -
deserts them in Colorado, and they j
get married in name only, so they 1
can travel without criticisf. At
last after many tiffs, they near
New York. They discuss what they
cheese.”
"Well— some,” she admitted eva-
sively.
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brother demanding $50 to pay a he added modestly. “I was born' Rowena, on the other hand want-
gambling debt. He sends the $50 „
out of his own money, along with With It
a caustic letter. On reaching El! “People are so dumb, sighed
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in the rumble seat.
“For heaven’s sake---” he be-
gan impatiently.
added slyly, “You must have sav-
ed up enough on your expense
money to keep the children in
bread and milk for a long time—
what with doing your own laun-
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ped on the window.
“Peter, you are off the road.
) This isn’t the way to New York.”
cago and St. Louis, Peter and dry
Rowena have many tiffs on the
lip-stick and painstakingly
sort of sentiment with paired the ravages of travel.
from her Rowena.
was leaden within her. Two large ■
tears forced themselves under her
hot lids and through the silken
lashes. Rowena closed her eyes
and pretended she was asleep.
"If Peter thinks I’ve got any-
thing to cry about, he’s crazy,"
she said stoutly.
he could put it through with a
rush.”
Peter resented that. “I think it
was needlessly insulting of you,
intend to do after obtaining an you mean?”
annulment.
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in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the date," said Rowena disagreeably,
first day, and checks Malaria in"And I‘m glad of it."
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here?” she inquired casually. ' «
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the fact that Mr. Rack had not Rowena! To spread the news like
been entirely satisfied with her that the day we were married.”
"I’m sorry you feel that way
about it, Peter,” she said gently.
thought Rowena was troubled
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ter that she looked at Peter and
laughed.
“You—you are good-natured
about it,” he said.
“Of course,” she declared gaily.
"This is an accident. Accidents
never make me mad.”
"Well, save up as much good
humor as you can,” he told her.
“You are going to need a lot of it
between now and Monday."
Rowena looked about her. The
little cabin was tucked away snug-
ly in a huge cleft of great rocks
and about it on every side tow-
ered broadbranched trees, begin-
ning to show gold and blood-red I
with the touch of autumn. Some- j
where near a noisy brook chat-
tered down-hill over the stones. I
And there was no sight of other'
little wayside place near a cool | ly. "We’ve had our luncheon—
blue lake and Peter said if Row- there is nothing here to stop for!”
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"We are honeymooning here till
Monday.”
Rowena blinked her lashes very
fast indeed. She fumbled around
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ena would excuse him a few min-
utes he wanted to call up some
people in New York.
"Gosh, but you’re in a rush,” she
protested irritably. “I suppose you
would like me to call up the judge
and ask him to have the papers
ready for us to sign tonight.”
Peter didn’t say anything, but
when he came back his face
showed a little white under his
summer’s tan and his lips were
grimly locked.
“I suppose she had another
each week as soon as it arrives,
and astonishes Peter by eating too
economically.
The three tourists reach St
Louis, after passing through Buf-
falo and Chicago. Peter and Row-
ena have many tiffs, while Bob-
by is enraptured at the way Car-
ter is fuming over her flight from
New York.
The three tourists reach Denver,
after passing through Buffalo, Chi-
about the future because she often
referred to things she might do
and regretted that her work had
fallen off. “If I had kept up as
well as I started I could land a
good jqb on the strength of it,"
she said ruefully.
____________ _____ _ , “You can, anyhow. Your work,
taking her place in the rumble as a whole, has been top-notch,
so that she can nide with Peter . ’ I
and have him to talk to about J You weere good down to the last
Carter. Rowena gets Peter to con- [ adjective. The trouble was that in
sent to divide the expense money/. . . ,
- • • the beginning you were so super-
lative you got them expecting mir-
acles. Never begin at the top,” he
advised her wisely. “It leaves no I
place to climb to. Anyhow," he
“I did not mean to be offensive,
I assure you. I really thought I
was doing the stitch-in-time sort
of thing."
“Do you think you’ll ever mar-
ry the judge?”
“I don’t think I'll marry any-
body. I hate men.”
"What are you going to do
when we get home, Peter?"
“Oh, work at something, I sup-
pose. I don’t know just what.
Maybe I’ll go to Paris.”
“You can't go until we get the
annulment. They will need you to
swear that we—we didn’t—that we
never were really married, or any-
thing.”
“How long will it take?"
“Why? Are you in such a hur-
ry for your freedom?”
“No, I was just wondering.”
“What do you intend to do first,
Rowena?” asked Peter.
Oh, I really don’t know. Write
up those stories perhaps."
“No plans for the far future?"
“No. Maybe I’ll keep house for
Buddy when he gets through
school. Maybe I’ll get married."
“But you say you hate men!”
“So I do. That’s the only way to
get even with them.”
From Pennsylvania Peter want-
ed to cut through as quickly as
possible into New Jersey and in
home that way. He said it was
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dition of continuing their trip with-
out a chaperon.
Rowena suggests to Peter that
they make a “companionate” mar-
riage. They are married and go
to Cheyenne where their actions,
when they ask for rooms on sep-
arate floors, arouses the suspicions
of the hotel clerk. They finally
succeed in getting rooms, but not
without exciting the laughter of
the hotel loungers.
They resume the trip the next
day and are overwhelmed by a
cloudburst in an arroyo and are
thrown out of the car. A party
of tourist campers gives them dry
clothes and food. Spokane is fin-
ally reached and the hotel clerk
smiles when they register. They
find Rackruff Motors have ar-
ranged a public reception and
dance for them. They are deluged
with presents.
After the festivities, Peter an-;
gers the hotel staff by leaving his
bride alone all night and Rowena
tries to console him for the bad ,
opinion he has won by his actions.
They find Bobbie awaiting them 1
in the hotel at Seattle and she i
travels with them to Los Angeles, 1
where they are met by an un-'
friendly hotel clerk, who summons
ab the police who thereupon place
all three under arrest for kidnap-
ping Bobbie.
After adjusting their difficul-
’ties, Peter Blande accidentally
would try to endure a few more
days of Peter’s company for the
sake of the scenery. Peter didn’t
argue with her. He just turned
off and went over the Water Gap
into New Jersey. Then they real-
ized that they were near-
home, for New Jersey was their
neighbor and Peter recognized
every landmark. The sign-posts
began to give mileage to New
York—seventy-five miles, sixty
miles and then fifty.
They had luncheon at a lovely |
When—the picture done Peter’s riage."
way, in spite of her—he turned "No. But it was nasty of you
the roadster east once more, Ro- just the same.”
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“Get out,” he repeated dogged-
ly. "We are staying here tonight.”
Rowena looked at him wonder-
ingly and put out her hand, her
slender and sunburned, pink palm
upturned and fingers curling. Pe-
ter ignored the silent appeal of it.
“Rowena,” he said, his voice
grown low and strange, “you’ve
made a damned fool of me by
day and another by night the
whole summer. You’ve made me
the laughing-stock of reporters ]
and automobile mechanics and ;
with hotel clerks from coast to.
coast—not to mention the kick '
your friends in New York are I
wena retired sulkily to the rum-
ble seat.
In Richmond they received a
long telegram • from Bobby Low-
ell. It was "prepaid.” As Rowena
said afterward, “We should have
known from that they were mar-
ried." As indeed they were.
“Darlings,” exclaimed the tele-
gram extravagantly. "We did get
married and my gown was lovely.
Carter was going to sue the rail-
road but the conductor took him
off and apologized so Carter gave j
him ten dollars instead. Can’t we
fly down and meet you some place
and finish our honeymoon togeth-
er—even if yours isn’t real?”
Peter said he thought he had
better answer that telegram and
he wrote very fast indeed without
one paue for thought.
“Love, kisses and condolences I
mean congratulations. As your
honeymoon waxeth ours alas doth
wane hence how could we twain
ride opposite directions in one
Rackruff? Anon.”
“It doesn't seem to mean much,"
objected Rowena. I
“It means plenty,” said Peter
firmly. “It means that our honey-
moons aren’t riding the same sky
if I can help it Carter’ll under-
stand.”
) They were Increasingly quiet as
they neared New York and the
end of their adventure. Peter
“Do you suppose we’ll ever be
by t as de sertedrthem andinreturn'' real good friends, Rowena? And
are faced with the impossible con- never quarrel again?
I’m good friends now! I’ve been
friends from the very first. I am
really fond of you, Peter, but you
are so darn mean the angels
themselves couldn’t get along
with you.”
“That’s odd. Every one has al-
ways remarked what a good dis-'
me,’’ she said. “I would never
feel that we had a grandstand
finish unless we breezed into the
Times Square in our regular tra-
veling order. You can put your
souvenirs in Bobby’s place.”
Rowena slumped lower and low-
er in the rumble seat as he drove
swiftly along the heavily shaded
roads. She'did not feel at all well.
In a way, she almost believed she
was sorry it was over. It had
been fun—all except Peter. It
would have been great—glorious
—without Peter. Rowena certain-
ly was not feeling well. Her heart
of the forest.
“It belongs to a friend of mine,"
said Peter. "That’s what I phoned
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Up a sharp and jagged hill and
ended abruptly at the foot of an
immense boulder in the very heart
of the forest.
"It’s a dead end,” said Rowena-
"What did I tell you?”
Peter got out of the car and
went back, very slowly, to stand
beside her, folding his arms rig-
idly on the rim of the rumble.
She noticed immediately how very
grim he looked, how his pleasant
eyes had narrowed and his lips |
set. She stared deeply into his
eyes, her lashes still wet with
tears, and waited for him to speak
something.
“Get out, Rowena,” he said at
last thickly. “This is our last
stop.”
“Why, we can be in New York 1
in two hours!” she protested faint-
town he said he hoped Rowena
didn’t mind waiting as he had a
little shopping to do.
“Shopping!" she ejaculated.
"Shopping within forty miles of
home? What do you want? Is it
anything I can lend you?”
“Oh, no, nothing like that," said
Peter vaguely. "Just some odds
and ends—little souvenirs—pres-
ents you know- nothing much."
"You would go through Yellow
stone and the Rocky Mountains
and buy your souvenirs in New
Jersey,” she remarked coldly.
When he came back his arms
pretty well filled with stoutly
tied bundles, Rowena and Con-
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the dirt road into a narrow wood I "Peter," she said gently, "d-don’t 44,
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Lively, A. G. The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1931, newspaper, September 18, 1931; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1515547/m1/7/?rotate=180: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.