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inrsday, September 17, 1931 McCOkitllCK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA' PAGE NUMBER THREE IKE RUBLE Copyright 1931 by the Author (BY ETHEL HUESTON) ELEVENTH INSTALMENT Rackruff Motors hire Rowena to accompany Peter on a na tion-wide tour in their road ster as an advertising stunt. At the last minute Little Bob by is engaged to act as Chap eron. A few miles out Bobby be comes tearful at being parted from her sweetheart and Row ena insists on taking her place in the rumble so that she can ride with Peter and have him to talk to about Carter. Row- enr gets Peter to consent to divide the expense money each week as soon as it arrives, and astonishes Peter by eating too economically. The three tourists reach I>env«»r, aft*r passing through Buffalo, Chicago and St. Louis. Peter and Rowena have many tiffs on the way while Carter keens wiring Bobbv to return to New York. The morning after they reach Denver, Peter and Rowena discover Bobby has deserted them and return ed to New York by train. They are faced with the impossible condition of continuing their trip without a chaperon. Rowena suggests to Peter that they make a “companion ate” marriage. They are mar ried and go to Cheyenna, where their actions, when they ask for rooms on separate floors, arouse the suspicions of the hotel clerk. They finally suc ceed in getting rooms, but not without exciting the laughter of the hotel loungers. They wire the company they have been ' married. 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 finally reach ed and the hotel clerk smiles when they register. They find Rackruff Motors have arranged a public reception and dance for them. They are deluged with presents. After the festivities. Peter angers the hotel staff by leav ing his bride alone all night and /Rowena tries to console him for thi£ baA opinion he has won by his 1 actions. They find Bobbie awaiting them in the hotel at Seattle and she travels (with them to Los Angeles where they are met bv an unfriendly hotel clerk, who summons the police who thereupon place all three un der arrest for kidnapping Bob by. NOW GO ON WITH THE S^ORY “See here,” said Peter angrily, “what sort of tommyrot is this anyhow? This lady is too old for the Juvenile Court. Why, she is her own mistress. She’s twenty- three years old.” “Well, according to the complaint from New York, there is nothing we can do about it. Our orders are to put you under arrest, have to talk to the judge. pearance if required. plained it. It was addressed not Besides seeing to their freedom to “Mr.” but to “Mrs. Peter Blande.” he made Rowena a present of a His mind traveled back over the friendly little dog which he had | trip. Buddy—that was her brother found in his showrooms that mom- —Ronald Rostand. Ready for his ing and which Rowena promptly third year in college and taking proceeded to call Constantine. Pet- summer courses to cut down the er grumbled at the addition to time and expense. Rowena had re- their party but was overruled. 1 ceived a letter or telgram from him And so Rowena had a companion at every stop en route. He remem- on the rumble seat from then on. bered her subsequent counting of By the salesman’s good offices bills and rush for a telegraph of- they were enabled to return to fice—her complete financial string- the hotel without police escort or ency—the way she starved herself, fer either greeting or condolence. “I’ve been waiting four days,” said Bobby. “I nearly died of lone someness. You were due two days ago. I had a notion to kill myself.” Peter turned to the boy quite savagely. “Why didn’t they tell .us at the desk?” “I told them notf to,” dimpled Bobby tearfully. “I wanted to sur- ed in a fatherly manner. “Not really bad, you understand, but has queer little aberrations once in a while. Gets odd notions about traveling and wants to get off the train. Cooks up any sort of wild excuse for getting off—wants to send a telegram—wants to call up New York—no end to the silly non sense she can trump up. Now I prise you. I told them to show you want you to see that" she goes right up.” straight through to New York. Her Rowena marched into the room, doctor will meet her at the station surveillance of any kind. In the early morning Peter read to the girls the answer to his per sonal telegram. ‘Such has been and is my in- eschewing all deserts—her thou sand painful small economies. Now Peter realized fully what it meant—this thing that he was go ing to do. Knew quite well that tention,” read the telegram. “I am when Buddy wrote back in com- probably the last man living en- plaint of this unwarranted outside tirely honorable in my dealings interference, Rowena’s rage would with women. Our engagement most be beyond bounds, certainly is not ended and if you They had talked sometimes of interfere I shall sue. Plan to maf- the future when their motor tour ry her instant of her arrival. In i was over, thought they would prob- took off her hat and gloves and tossed them upon the bed. Then she got out her lip-stick and pow der and concealed the stains of travel in a most efficient manner. and I’m depending on you to see that she gets safely into his hands. She’ll be no trouble at all, one of the sweetest girls that ever lived, but just will get that odd notion about travel.” HEADACHES NEURITIS NEURALGIA, COLDS Whenever you have some nagging ache fact, expect to meet here with li cense, ring and minister. Wire what So at ten-ten Peter and Rowena stood side by side under the quaint tiled portico of the Santa Fe sta tion and waved a fond—and not ungratifyed—farewell . to little brown Bobby ably be good friends in later years when their business vicissitudes were separate and distinct, and no longer bound up by compulsion in each other’s work and wish. But if Peter flung open insult at Buddy— “The sacred cow!” he sneered—a 1 ' such hopes for the future were null and void. Well, Peter told him The misadventures of Bobby’s re- self, he didn’t know that he cared, turn and their legal entanglements After all, he didn’t get on so very in Los Angeles had keyed them to well with Rowena. But she was a a high nervous tension, but when j good sport—the best cn^rt h° they had left the limits of the city , ever seen—and deserved a better a sudden quiet restfulness descend- !br o *k tbm Buddv was giving her. ed uoon them. Rowena drooped Peter’s grip on the pen made it a drowsily against his shoulder. sword as he gave form to his scath- “Shail I put up the umbrella in ing thoughts, the rumble seat?” Peter asked face- ! “Granting to begin with that it liousiy. is none of my business,” he wrote But Rowena pretended she was heavily, “it neverthelss affords me asleep. | great pleasure to tell you that in By the time thev reach°d the my opinion you are an unspeakable outskirts of San Diego, Peter as cad. You may not know—of course well as Rowena confessed to a com- j you do not know, for Rowena is plete exhaustion, mental as well one Rostand who is a rousing good as ohysical. sport and would not throw un her They pulled up at the U. S. privations to you—that in order to Grant Hotel. There was no boy in meet your insatiate demands for sight and Peter, unwilling to waste money, your sister, tired and ex- a moment, himself carried their housed as «he is by hard work bags into the lobby and hurried and long driving, has saved money over to the desk. He was sur- by doing her own laundry in the prised at being immediately ac- bathtub at nights; has starved her- commodated with two single rooms, self on soup and coffee and gone Their good fortune followed them without a proper meal for days at and they both had a real good a time. night’s rest. ■ “Better men than vou have work- Peter had all the bags stowed e d their way through, college. For neatly away in the car the next Howena s sake. I myself am sending morning, ready for their start for you the fifty bucks, the East, when Rowena tripped out “It is of course quite unnecessary of the hotel, leading the freshly for me to explain that Rowena washed Constantine on a brand- does not know that you wired for “All right,” she said cheerfully. “Come on in, Peter, and don’t stand Peter gave the conductor ten dol- or pa in . take some tablets of Bayer gaping—Constantine, shake hands j lars, who said he could safely Aspirin. Relief is immediate! Yii rjrtKK 6 ®? s ^ on promise that she would reach her There’s scarcely ever an ache or pain All right. Bobby, give us the low- | doctor without misadventure. - - - down. Now, Carter Wellman ” \ “You’ll krvw him all right.” said “It’s all his fault.” sobbed Bob- Peter. “He’s red-headed and kind that Bayer Aspirin won’t relieve—and never a time when you can’t take it. by, ignoring Constantine’s black of square-jawed.” The tablets with the Bayer cross are and white paw. “You know that The conductor, who was pretty always safe. They will not depress the telegram he sent you, Peter? It square-jawed himself, promised to heart, or otherwise harm you. Use them was a lie. He didn’t mean a word see to it. Peter passed on the same as often as they can spare you any pain ° . . . . word, and a five-dollar bill, to the or discomfort. Just be sure to buy the hor«Pwhir? l v>inT l ‘>” ^ im » or shall I porter of her Pullman, and then g enu j ne . Examine the box. Beware of horsewhip him? sent a telegram to Carter announc- na “How do you know? You haven’t ing tho exact moment of her ar- ' . , , , , „ had time to get to New York and rival and advising him to get in Aspirin is the trade-mark of Bayer quarrel with him this time,” ob- touch* with the conductor of the manufacture of monoaceticacidester of jected Rowena. train. Then he hurriedly rejoined salicylieacid. I had plenty of time in Albu- the girls, queraue, and I called him up. 11 “Good-bye, darling,” said Rowena nsked him what I should get for cheerfully. “See you in New Or- the wedding? He said ‘What wed- leans.” ding?’ I said. ‘Our wedding. That “Oh, no, you won’t,” said Bobby, you wired Peter Blande about.’ “You won’t see me again till you Rowena—Peter—he went on some- 1 get back to New York.” , thing awful. He said if I thought I At the hotel in Houston they , less about clothes and more about, found another fat letter for Ro- my immortal soul I’d be better off. wena and a telegram which she i He said what did I mean by telling opened nervously. But it was only \ strangers — and low-principled . Buddy’s answer to her inquiry from characters like Peter, at that—the El Paso. private details of our love-affair. Tn “No,” it stated briefly. “If I fact, he said he wasn’t uning to needed money, wouldn’t I ask for marry me until New York had a it?” new insane asylum where he could And hard uo as she was, Rowena control me by the latest improved gave herself the satisfaction of wir- nWhods.” Rowena and Peter screamed with laughter. “Rowena ” said Peter. “I take it all back. I won’t ounch him in the nose. He’s a great old scout.” “What did vou say, darling?” in- qm r ed Rowena. * | “I said,” announced Bobby with “What, no mail for me?” asked Rowena. new leash 1 attached to a brand- ; this money nor that I am sending new collar. it. Your telegram was handed me “Gosh, Rowena,” ejaculated Pet- by mistake and I opened it under er, “what’ll we do with the mutt? I the impression it was for me.” YoudI f or got about him?” And without an instant’s hesita- i “Do with Constantine!” she tion he endorsed his sentiments pptpr*” cripd'Rnwpna “are echoed - “Why, we’ll buy him a nice with the signature that wouia one vmi Point? tn let them arrest us for silk cushion to ride on, and get him day be worth thousands—“Peter not married when we a?e a , fr esh . bone every day. And Blande” married! Look at all the trouble cil ^rg e if a- 11 to Rackruff.”i | H Pe ^ e uncomfortable wp*vp had That’s nrnof pnmiph ” i Peter did his best picture at about the whole business. He was “But wliv should thev sav vou Grand Canyon, one which brought not used to any sort of double deal- arp ntiiv nrptpndinp to hp marripd him no small amount of praise and ing and was not at all sure but at if vou reallv are married; profit. It was the Rackruff and any, moment officers of the law—or •Wen^hS says so? That's the 1 ^wena riding through the rain- perhaps the telegraph eompany- ine back the one word, “Yes.” There was a’so a telegraphic money transfer for Peter, to the amount of fiftv dollars, and with it a short cold message. “You go to h .” It was from Ronald Rostand Rowena w T as wrong about it. digni^v. “that while perhaps he had Buddy needed money a great many never been in jail as Peter had. and times after that but never asked had never toured the country under for it again. He accented a iob in a fai<-e pretenses and that sort of haberdashery where he worked two thing, Peter could teach him a hours every afternoon and all day whole lot about handling women.” Saturday. Rowena didn’t like that Rowena rolled back on the bed* because it kent him away from ball helniess with laughter. i games, but all Buddy said to her “What did he say to that?” ask- objections was, “I’ve seen a ball ed Peter. game.” “Nothing. He hung up the re- Rowena was quite uneasy about ceiver on me—and me ’ r *a dng f^ a it all. rpio n hopp call clear from Albu- 1 Ppfer wanted to write him again, querque!” tried many times to put his friend- so Kowena retjrpd with Coost^n- I Iv feelings into phrases, to say to her rumble s^at and they cheerio and tell him he was 'mite continued swiftly east. Bobbv no tho shiff. He would even have longer did all the talking. Peter apologized for his meddling. B”* _ was showing up as something of a somehow the kindly thoughts would child is feverish or upset; or has caught on™''rsationalist on his own ac- not be written down, for he had not • co ij count. Rowena’s facility with words and it | nis simple prescription will make that “You’ve made a great mistake, wa s only in the pressure of deep bilious, headachy, cross boy or girt Bobbv,” he told her over and over, emotion that Peter turned to the comfortable, happy, well in just a few <~»-\e»Qkip rr in o slow and imoressive pen. And so, months later, when hours. It soon restores the bowels to voice. “I know men. Carter meant fhe two met for the first time, healthy regularity. It helps “break-up” just what he said in that telegram, < there had been no interchange of ; a co id by keeping the bowels free from, but he resented your taking up opinions between them after Bud-j a ll that sickening mucus waste.' such a sacred subiect by long-dist- dv’s lucid wire. But when Rowena, You have a famous doctor’s word for BOWELS need watching Let Dr. Caldwell help whenever your ance telephone. The telephone is such a sordid, mechanical, diaboli cal device. Naturally he would not wish to make nlans for the tre mendous romantic experience of his life' bv teieobo^a nf so rrmeh a minute. He wanted to have you in his arms.” with a hpr<d of each in one of hers, said brightly: '■fan this laxative. Dr. Caldwell’s record of I having attended over 3500 births with- “Oh, Peter, this is Buddv!”_thev | out the loss of one mother or baby la idical and Peter believed unique in American mei history. ffrst question. Where did the com plaint come from anyhow?” “From a gentleman in New York by the name of Carter Well man ” “You can fix this up,” said the officer. “You got influential friends, ain’t yf*u? They’ll fix you up all right. All they got to do is swear they know all about you and everything’s jake and there you are. You just hop down private in your own car with Bill here to show you the way—this is Bill Harmon—fine chao, too—he’ll go down with you and introduce you to the judge. He’s a swell gent, the judge is. He’ll see how things are in a jiffy.” It was the simplest way out, and the officers made it as easy for them as possible, allowd them to walk unescorted through the lobby of hotel and waited at a res pectful distance when Peter stop ped to send a teleg r am, which he iT?rot'' with a verv firm hand and signaled for Rowena to com'* and mad. It was addressed to Carter Wellman. “Are you going to marry Roberta Lowell immediately on her return *n New York, or are you not? If your engagement is canceled, as sh° believes. I shall marry her my self immediately. A rolling brown dumpling gathers nothing but trouble for all concerned. Please state your exact intentions.” “But you can’t marry her,” pro tested Rowena. “You’re married now.” bow fringe, with Constantine’s would bale him away to jail"to ex queer, quaint black and white head plate his unwarranted manipula- nodding approbation beside her. tion of otner people’s affairs by Rowena was not having the best telegraph, of luck with her work in those de- ! At El Paso Rowena had two let- clining weeks of their tour. She ters. She sat right down in. the kept a pencil and note-book con- nearest chair to read them, and stantly at hand, even teaching Peter stalked moodily from cigar Constantine to carry them for her stand to desk and back again, and on command, but ideas were not watched her furtively, coming to her with much frequency Peter could stand it no longer. For the first time in her life, R0- “Buddy O.‘K.?’’ he inquired anx- wena did not feel like writing, did iously. not want to be bothered, and it “He’s entirely too O. K. I’m wor- may as well be added, her writing ried.” was far below its usual standard. “You can’t be too O. K.,” protest- They lapsed into comfortable ed Peter. “Nobody can.—What do silence. They did not quarrel so you mean?” much when they were alone—there seemed less point to it. To be sure, when occasion required, they would wither each other with a scathing V'orrt. but they never went to the old lengths. ' In Albuquerque, when Peter had registered and called for their mail he was handed half a dozen tele grams and two or three letters. “Nothing for Miss Rostand,” said ths clerk. “What!” ejaculated Rowena. “Nothing for me? Not anything? B^bbv was impressed—even a lit- other had in mind, tie frightened. “But he used to They had looked forward to New make love to me over the phone in Orleans as one of the hieh spots of New York,” she said defensively, j the entire tour. They had heard “That was different. He was see- enthusiastic friends rave over its ing you every day then and the au^int charm, had seen exquisite calls were from house to house, us etchings of its thousand odd little not like shouting T love you’ over crooks and corners, had sampled its three thousand miles of farm and rime-honored recipes. Peter had his factories. I don’t blame Carter, heart set on doing something real- I’m like that myself.” ly worth while in New Orleans—two shook hands heartily said. “Well, hello!” “Hello, hello,” said Buddy. , , , And they both lauehed a little.; ^Tt^ve” worry and each knew exactly what the , £ h r “ d £j h “mbcr c£ y o Ur family Z headachy, bilious, gassy or constipated. i Get a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup ~ ‘ ‘ * have Syrup Pepsin is good for all ages. It sweetens the bowels; increases appetite —makes digestion more complete. Dr. W. B. Caldwell’s SYRUP PEPSIN A Doctor's Ffimily Laxative TWELFTH INSTALMENT After adjusting their diffi culties, Peter accidentally op ens a letter from Rowena’s kid brother demanding $30 to pav a irambling debt. He sends the $30 out of his own money, along with a caustic letter. On reachinf El Paso, Rowena hears from her brother. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Why, Buddy alwavs-he * surely w 0 r ‘‘‘? n me tw0 mne-t- rv?vp written oh nlease look letters, page aftei mun have again! Ther one!” „ /-.w n ipTc P ’nnk letteis, page auer page, all 'here must b- I? lease about colle g e and the boys and here must D- a/ ieaso such nonsense and never J a word i -Lt. i about money.” She marched The clerk obligingly ran thiougn straight to the telegraph desk and me mail again. Peter followed her guiltily. He had “Sorry—not a thing,” he said to know what she was going to do. again. | “But, Buddy, darling, don’t you , “Dear me,” said Rowena thought- need some money?” she wrote, 'fully. “How—extremely—odd!” | “There was no bad news, I hope,” “Well, he doesn’t, believe lt._And ^one £ Wsown, ^ Rackruff, Inc., will pay for that wire if I have to steal a spare tire to get it.” r« to his mail. A quick glance at the that, letters told him thev were of no 1 , wh y. no - said Rowena wonder- esnerfalimnorSnceandhe turned in S^- “Nobod v ever bothers Bud- The judge proved extremely sym- to thf teWmmr The two that he d y He isn,t that sort ” athetic and agreed with Peter that' opened firlt were from the Com- i “How-nice.” said Peter. t was an outrage, no less, the way n ? nv e hll t fhp third started off on The b °y who took them up to people in love embroUed innocent 1 started on on their bystanders in the tangled web of, a “ note T . . . . their affairs. He had his secretary Darling, I hate to ask you send off a wire to Denver to verify again, Peter read, his eyes start- —_ _ ^ „„ the marriage, and to Rackruff Mo- , in 8 with surprise. ‘‘Devil s own 0 nce, he knocked and it was op- tors, Inc., in New York, for details b * ck -. ^ ost ! ened from within. They noticed of the trip and complete informa- have it this week or they that, of course, and framed in the tion regarding Rowena and Peter. JY r i l v 5 bu< L k ° u r Pasb 11 °P en d oor wgs Bobby Lowell. NO MORE rooms did a very unusual thing, although neither Rowena nor Peter noticed it at the time. Instead of unlocking the door at It * was He even sent for«the local Rackruff „ played ‘ dealer, who fortunately turned out signed Buddy, to be btfUi a native son and a bro- To Peter it made no sense at all. “Where in the woi'ld '*did you come from?” ‘What are you doing here?” ther Elk.-'^He was willing to stand He turned it over and scrutinized i Bobby was crying, but they were entirely responsible for their ap- the address again. Ah! That ex- too amazed, too disconcerted, to of- So Kowena retired to tue ruiiiuie east. “But I didn’t know what to wear rea >y worth-while things—one for ——, ... ^aokruff Motors, Inc., and one for ‘That cut him to the quick,” Peter Blande and his future, said Peter. “Men don’t think about It was his idea to pick out the clothes in their emotional mom- most picturesque and typical cor ents. And to know that instead of ner, with just a small portion of the every pulse and every vein and ev- icacrtev showine, and with P„o- ery—er—corpuscle—singing aloud, vr ena peering out mistily into a T am going back to Carter!’—vou shadowy street—a new Rowena were wondering what to wear.— shimmery and shadowy herself be- Well, I’m jusi like Carter. It would hind a Spanish veil. Rowena on wound me to the heart.” the other hand, thought it would By the time they reached San strike a more telling note to have Antonio, Bobby was compietelv the quaint old shop and the ciuaint convinced, entirely repentant and old street with a strictly modern asking Peter’s advice—he being Rackruff and a strictlv modern “one of those men” and knowing Rowena standing out in bold relief how they were apt to feel about Rowena and Peter never had thr things. same idea about pictures, and Ro- “If I were you,” said Peter, with wena wouldn’t admit for a minut^ the heavy air of one who weighed that Peter was always right. Cer- his words, “I should take the firs tainly, whether right or wrong, h^ fast train for New York. You can would have his own way when it get a good train at Houston.” came to pictures. “I’ll do it,” declared Bobby. “I’ll It J was in Rowena ar- i take the first train from Houston sued she wasn t the type to do a and I won’t breathe a word to Car- natilv o daughter ppoomg out—sh^ ter. Then if I do change my mind was strictly a New Yorker, looking along the road I can call him up fascinatedly in. somewhere.” i (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) or mice, after you use RAT-SNAP It’s a sure rodent killer. Try a Pkg. and prove it. Rats killed with. RAT-SNAP leave no smell. Cats or dogs won’t touch it. Guaranteed. 35c size - 1 cake - enough foe ! Pantry, Kitchen or Cellar. 65c size - 2 cakes - for Chicken House, coops, or small buildings. $1.25 size - 5 cakes - enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage buildings, or factory buildings. Sold and guaranteed by STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick. S. C. its* Sq^in Houston, Peter put her on the train and went straight to the conductor, pointed Bobby out to -txt- Soybeans furnish good pasture in him. and gave him the location of i a ^ e summer and early fall when xi6r DGruii “Shes’ not very well,” he explain- perennial pastures are short. r WB FELLOW THAT SAYS HES BOSS IN VUS/OWN HOME WILL UE ABOUT OTHER THIMOS, TOO. The Department of Agriculture is planning experiments in crossing hardy Afrikander cattle from southern Africa with native beef breeds, hoping to develop a breed, that can endure drought and heat.