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he hesitated.
"Yes?"
"I love you too."
"You love me — enough to marrv me and go away?"
"1 love you — and I've got to go anyhow. I was going tomorrow. It will make me happier to know my love has been worth something to you. Then, afterwards, if there should be anyone else, you could get a divorce — "
"Don't," she commanded. "I love Dick still — I can never love again. But if 1 should — why you are the best man in the world."
""THE next day they took a * trolley ride to a nearby town, and were married by a much startled justice of the peace. Judge LeRoy's daughter eloping ! Well, it was none of his business. He could not refuse to perform the ceremony. And so Millicent LeRoy became the wife of John Fuller, better known as Piffle, the Clown.
With many misgivings, they returned to the home of the bride to confess. Piffle expected the parents to be angrv, and his trunks were packed. But what neither of them expected was what happened. Could they have foreseen, perhaps the girl would have chosen death.
The judge looked at them in astonishment— then laughed. It was just another of the clown's inexhaustible stock of jokes. But Millicent handed him the marriage certificate, bearing the seal of the justice of the peace. Then his astonishment gave way to anger. Yet he could not forget that this same clown had saved his son from a terrible death, and remembering this, his wrath was directed more against his daughter, who could so far forget herself, than against the man. And at the end of it all came his stern command.
"Very well then. You have seen fit to marrv a circus clown. Then i*o with him.
He had a son of which he ivas not the
but do not come back pleading for a place in this home again. Never let me see your face again."
"But father — he wasn't going to take me away."
"He wasn't — " and the judge paused, looked piercingly at them, and added slowly and deliberately : "So that's it. is. it? You didn't want to marry him. but you were afraid not to. My God !" He turned toward Piffle, enraged and furious. "And this is how you take advantage of my gratitude ! Well, there is nothing more to be said. Our account is balanced. Go. both of vou — forever." And he left