Martha and Mick had fallen in love in the flash of an eye. Yes, Martha’s parents might have been rich but that was nothing to Mick. He had been brought up in a poorer area of town and his values didn’t lie in a bank vault. He loved Martha for who she was as a person.
So elopement was a natural course to follow, and they did follow. It was a Thursday afternoon and they first booked into a motel, then went to the court house, got married, and went to a restaurant to celebrate.
When they got back to the motel there was a message for Martha. How her parents had found where they were was beyond her, but it’s amazing what money can buy. The message said she had been disinherited. Not as much as a penny was ever to come her way.
It wasn’t a brilliant way to end their wedding day. Mick said he was going for a walk. He left the motel and never bothered to come back.
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