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He even got a job, and he stayed away awhile from Roswell. He was utterly miserable, all those eight months, and so was Louise. At the end of them he returned, and they ran away to the next town, and were married. The marriage ceremony was going on at the exact moment during which two worried parents were holding a council of war and deciding that they didn't know what to do. Mr. Massey had called on Mr. Mabie and the two of them were shaking their heads worriedly. "I've done everything," Mabie said. "I've talked to him and talked to him, but it doesn't seem to do any good." "It doesn't do any good to talk to Louise, either," Massey admitted. "She's spoiled — always has been, being the only girl with seven brothers." No, it didn't do any ' good to talk. Louise and Milt returned to Roswell that evening, scared but defiant — and married. There were terrible scenes, of course, even worse than Louise and Milt had expected. There was even talk of an annulment, an entirely possible procedure, since both Louise and Milt were under age. The Masseys, though they were bitterly hurt and apprehensive for Louise's future happiness, had really nothing against Milt as a person. It was just that they'd had so many plans for her! All her life she had sung, and had practiced music with her two younger brothers, Dott and Allen. Even in Louise's childhood, Mr. and Mrs. Massey had intended that some day she and her brothers would have musical careers. AS much as anything else, it was Louise's agreement to continue going to high school, and when that was finished to study music in El Paso, which eventually reconciled the Masseys to her marriage. They still did not believe it would bring her lasting happiness; they did not believe so immature a marriage could survive the temperamental clashes of two high-spirited youngsters; but if it did not last, they said to themselves, she could pick up her life and go on from where Milt had interrupted it. All around town their pessimistic attitude was reflected. Nothing as exciting as this runaway marriage between the children of two leading citizens had happened in Roswell for years, and Roswell made the most of its possibilities for gossip. The average time allotted Louise and Milt to stay married was one year. "They were right, of course," Louise admits today. "Milt and I weren't really in love. We were only crazily infatuated with each other. Neither of us knew the real meaning of love, as we've come to know it since, through long association. If it hadn't been for two things, the marriage couldn't have lasted a year. "One was that all this opposition made me angry. It's true that I had always been spoiled. I always found a way to get what I wanted — if not from Dad, then from Mother, and if not from either of them, from one of my brothers. I'd neyer even considered the possibility of being defeated in a desire. And after my marriage I made up my mind that what I wanted was to prove they were all wrong, and make my marriage last rather than admit defeat. "The other thing that saved our marriage was my music. Anybody as young as I was can't settle down to being just a housewife. I had to have another interest to help me work off surplus energy." kJILT'S father gave them, as a wedding ■™ present, a lovely home in Roswell, and they settled down — Louise to resume school and Milt to working in the hardware store. There was a constant coming and going between that home and the Massey -ranch. Sometimes Louise and Milt would move out to the ranch for a few days, or Dott and Allen would come in to stay with Louise for a week or so. Gradually, the Masseys became fond of Milt. They couldn't help liking him, for his good-nature and kindness to Louise. Louise, Dott, and Allen continued their musical work together, but more and more their trio was becoming a quartet. Milt happened to be pretty good on a bass fiddle and a saxophone, and when they played in the evening he'd join them. At the end of a year Louise carried out her promise to go to El Paso, alone, and study music; and Milt carried out his promise to permit her to do so. After her return, he made no objection, either, to her going with her father, Dott, and Allen to Los Angeles for a trip which was partly pleasure, partly to see if the three of them couldn't get a job singing on the radio. The Masseys didn't get the job in Los Angeles, but only a few months after their return to Roswell, Charles F. Horner, the owner of a number of traveling vaudeville units similar to the old-time Chautauquas, offered them a job. Those days, while she was considering Horner's offer, are the only time in the ten years since Louise's wedding when she has really feared her marriage was in danger. Her desire to accept the job wasn't the imperious demand for something new of a spoiled child. It was something deeper, surer than that. It was almost a necessity. If she had to choose between going, and remaining Milt's wife, she knew what her choice would be — to go. But it was Milt who made the decision, who once more showed a kindness that was really wisdom. He chose to make the trio into a quartet and go with her. It wasn't easy for him, either. Old Mr. Mabie was growing oid, looking forward to the day when he could retire and turn the hardware store over to his son. Going on the road with Louise meant disappointing his father, giving up the home he had just had redecorated, changing all his plans for the future. He might, if he hadn't been Milt Mabie, have grown angry, stood on his rights, insisted that Louise stay where she belonged in his home. He might have done that — and if he had, he would have lost her. They said it couldn't last — but it has, and very successfully, for ten years. Neither Louise nor Milt has ever regretted leaving Roswell. There have been hard knocks, plenty of them, but the group which went to work for Horner's vaudeville circuit is still intact, and has even added a fifth member, Larry Wellington. Dott and Allen have both married since going into radio, and Larry married too. shortly after joining the group. Now they all live, four couples of them, in an apartment house in Great Neck, Long Island — "neither too far from each other, nor too near," as Louise says. Every summer they return to Roswell, and some day they plan on going back there to stay. 64