Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1917, Page 6

NATRONA COUNTY TRIBUNE A. A. CHAPMAN REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE Stocks Bought and Sold | Room 22 Townsend Block Phone 196-J H. E. PARSONS Real Estate and Insurance Office: Room 5 Natrona Hotel Phone 652 4-24-5-23* Haworth & Hopper | Contractors and Builders Houses and Lots FOR SALE Just west of First Ave. and Center St. Phone 645 ; CASPER OIL EXCHANGE THE ESCAPE By ANITA REYBURN. The girl with a loose white swe j,over her evening to g | against the cool of | like a of the terrace | urns, a fountain adow from coluinn to column ussed tull fower-filled und stutues glisten- house snuggled aguinst | beside it lay a yacht pointing seaward \ like a great white bird ready for Hight. | She remembered with relief that the | captain and crew were in the house, having w share in the festivities of the wedding rehearsal. ‘The groom was to urrive that eve ning and the bridal party was ussem- il bled and guests were invited to re- | ceive the wonderful person” of title | the slope AT THE LOWEST PREVAILING PRICES Write or Wire for List and Quotations | who was to wed the family fortune in exchange for u coronet. She passed spurning Grass Creek Oil and Gas Salt Creek Petroleum on, launches Hall Oil and motor boats of various kinds, and Northwest Oil and Gas = | chose*a rowboat rocking gently on the Midwest Issues | eusy swell ache eee: ; : . + A | Gathering her skirts close, she go! poet Triangle OW Elkhorn Oil \ ia tanalp ahha at loti Yakay feevike en Glenrock Petroleum American Oil the river. Two miles away was a favorite haunt of hers, a fiat, ) dell, where willows hung over a clear little stream that lost its identity here with the blg river. The little boat swung into the haven as she rested one oar, and slid in under the willows. Moontight fil- tering through the tiny leaves made a4 wonderful lacewerk of shadow on the water. “it is fairyland,” breathed the girl softly, and the place caught the echo and seut it back to her. “It is heaven!” said the lo, the voice was masculin She looked around surprised, and not displeased, for the voice had} thrilled her. i “Better than heaven! | heaven is yet to come FROST & FROS Casper, Wyoming Phone 736 ‘ Reference: BR OKERS sho and, Firat and Wolcott Wyoming National Bank. It's here and | Tribune Want Ads Always she ausw “Fairyland then, and you are tania.” “Yes, I And who are you, mysterious stranger? | “Oberon! Didn't you | | “Stupid me, } fairies ! 1 don't i- am ‘Titania, of wood king of the} think 1 shall call} you Oberon, either. He was a mis- | chief maker, and led Titania a_ter-!/ rible Hfe. Remember how he put the ; | ass’ head on the clown and caused | her to fall in love with him?" “Thut isn’t a fairy trait. huimun. Muny people love as they are told—and murr Iso." An odd look crossed her face. “Come | out, kind stranger. Be you Oberon, } Puck or the donkey-headed clown, I should like to see y she couxed. Aud then the branches rusted and a cunoe slid out of the willows quite) It's very | We advise the close to her. The girl saw how erect | hd he sat and his strong, clear features. | Immediate purchase of | Subserame sen nibs coun hed trac she felt her heart beating strangely. | Her ansWer was irrelevant. “Isn't | this a truly wonderful night?” “It is—because you are her | “And aren't peop | indoors? foolish to stay } Superior Petroleum Casper Oil Brokerage Company LYNCH BLDG. CASPER, WYO. “They are—when you ure outside!” “And why do people have stupid weddings?” “Because two people in love!” | | | | | 0. Not always! Do you know, | I've just run away from a wedding, or } rather the preliminaries. The reai| wedding is tomorrow.” | He wus instantly interested. “You don't suy so! Ané who, pray, is the | bride?” | She told him. “Ah! And you?” he asked. have you to do with it ali?” “1,” she said, “I am in the bridal party.” “I am going to confess, too,” he added. “I am in the bridal party also.” “What! You!" “Yes, And drawn by the beauty of the night I ran off just as you did. We're both in the same boat.” She laughed delightfully. “My sin is less heinous now,” she said, “since I have company.” “And we are hot in the same boat, either, e we?” he broke in. “But Ij would like to be if you allow, We| could have a little journey of our own! up this wonderful river.” “I'd love it,” she-said. “and Yi show you how substantial I am when} it tilts.” She stood up and -held a “What PHONE 203 WILLIAM DESMOND IN TRIANGLE PLAY, “THE LAST OF INGRAMS.” At The New Ins Tomorrow the night, passed | ling white in the moonlight. At the top of the broad steps that led down : to the river, she paused under a spreading tree. “ | She hesitated, then started down the steps, cautiously keeping in the | | shudow of the high stone il. | At the foot of the flight, a boat ind | | Ienissi | touched. great deposits of iron ore, estimated | THE | her hand, und as he took Tt she sprang } | lightly from one rocking boat to the | other and settled herself in low seat facing him, “Where to?” he asked. >. out on the come buck?” the ver he sai 1 impet- uously “Never come buck!!!" she breathed. | | A spell was over her—strong, real, en- | during * wanted to drift on any { where, forever and always with this | stranger who had taken her heart by stort, | “I love you!" he said softly. “And [love you!” she b He nodd is a vill: hed. -d toward the shore. “There and a parson. ~ Will you marry me now, dear, tonight?” ' “Yes. 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