Telephone Halts Flight in County Clerk's Office, Where Couple is
Arrested. Abductor Attacks Sheriff Viciously. Is Manacled in Presence
of Hysterical Young Heiress Who Faints as Her Lover is Overpowered.
Irate Father Hurries to the Scene.
After keeping the country in a turmoil of excitement over his
disappearance in an airplane, the Skyrider, young Jewel, flies boldly
to Rolling R ranch and abducts beautiful Mary V Selmer, only daughter
of the rich rancher who led the search for the missing birdman.
Romance is not dead, though airplanes have taken the place of horses
when young Lochinvar goes boldly out to steal himself a bride. Modern
inventions cannot cool the hot blood of youth, as young Jewel has once
more proven. This sensational young man, apparently not content with
the uproar of the country for the past three days, when he was believed
to be lost on the desert with his airplane, attempts one adventure too
many. When he brazenly carried off his sweetheart in his airplane he
forgot to first cut the telephone wire. That oversight cost him dear,
for now he languishes in jail, while the young lady, who is under age,
is being held by the sheriff--
It was sickening, because in a measure it was true, though he had never
thought of emulating Lochinvar or any one else. He had neither thought
nor cared about the public and what it would think, and the blatant way
in which he had been made to entertain the country at large humiliated
him beyond words.
He picked up the square, white envelope tightly sealed and addressed in
Mary V's straight, uncompromising chirography, turned it over,
reconsidered opening it, and flipped it upon the cot.
"There was an answer expected," the jailer lingered to hint broadly.
"The young lady is waiting, and she seemed right anxious."
But Johnny merely walked to the barred window and stared across at the
blank wall of another building fifteen feet away, and in a moment the
jailer went away and left him alone, which was what Johnny wanted most.
After a while he opened Mary V's letter and read it, scowling and
biting his lips. Mary V, it would seem, had read all that the papers
had to say, and was considerably upset by the facetious tone of most of
the articles.
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