Minutes count.
She's waiting for me outside Philadelphia.
I gotta get right back.
She doesn't even know I'm gone.
A guy can't propose to a gal
without a cent in the world, can he?
What a story. On her way
to join husband, Ellen Andrews...
That's it.
Let me see that a minute.
Zeke!
I told you, you couldn't trust him.
He's gone.
Who?
The fella who was gonna stay a week.
He skipped and took the car with him, too.
We wouldn't have known till morning
if I hadn't took that magnesia.
Get up, don't lay there.
Let's do something about it.
There ain't nothing we can do if he's gone.
See that? They're gone.
Looks like it, don't it? What's this?
Ma! Here's the woman.
- What's the matter?
- Where's your husband?
- Husband?
- Yes, if he is your husband.
- Isn't he here?
- No, he ain't. The car's gone, too.
You got any money?
- No.
- Then you'll have to git!
Yeah. You'll have to git.
Please, may I use your phone?
I've got to call New York.
You ain't gonna stick me for no phone call.
Go to the sheriff's office, a quarter
mile down the road. They'll fix you up.
And listen, next time you better not come
back here. I run a respectable place.
- Thanks, you saved my life.
- Okay. So long kid and good luck.
Goodbye. You're beautiful.
All women are beautiful.
For my dough, he's still the best
newspaper man in the business.
Get Hank, quick. Boy, what a yarn.
Hold up the morning edition.
Break down the front page.
We'll have a new layout.
Send in a couple of rewrite men.
And Hank, listen. Don't do a thing.
I've got a story that'll make your hair curl.
Wait a minute. Don't annoy me, I'm busy.
Agnes, send Mike in here! Dig up
all the pictures on that Andrews kid.
And Hank, listen, get Haley out of bed.
I want a cartoon and I want it quick.
Westley's in it.
He's waiting at the church...
...with tears on his face.
The bride didn't show up.
Old Man Andrews is laughing his head off.
Everything exaggerated.
Snap into it. What is it?
Ellen Andrews? You're crazy.
I'm not. She phoned her father
from an auto camp asking him to come.
He's getting a police escort
and Westley's going along.
Yes, she's been travelling by bus.
When she found out her father
and Westley made up, she phoned.
Okay, grab a car and stay with them.
Get Hank again.
Agnes, get me a doctor,
I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown.
Hank, forget what I told you.
I'm having a nightmare.
Agnes, you call the police department.
Tell them to find Peter Warne.
Send out a general alarm.
I want that dirty crook pinched.
You want us?
Change the front page!
Ellen Andrews just phoned her father.
She's going home. She found
out Dad withdrew his objections.
She gave herself up.
Spread it all over the place!
Play it up big! Major league!
"Love Triumphant." Go on, hop to it.
Okay.
Come on, baby.
We gotta get there before she wakes up.
Can't you drive any faster?
"Young people in love are never hungry"
Come on, baby. We've got a police escort.
Come on, baby.
They can't make a sucker out of us.
All right, come on.
Step back. Give them room.
Come on, step back.
How about a picture for the paper,
Mr. Andrews?
Wait till she gets home.
Later, boys. Later.
"He floats through the air
with the greatest of ease
"The daring young man
on the flying trapeze"
Get that thing out of the way!
Keep your britches on, we'll get it out.
Hey, you darn fool!
Ellen Andrews is going to marry
that Westley guy again.
Gordon's out back some place.
When he comes in, give him this.
Tell him I was just kidding.
- You can't get a thing done around here.
- Peter was just in.
- What?
- He left this money.
- He said he was just kidding.
- Where is he?
- There he goes.
- Hey, Pete!
Hello. I'm sorry, it was just a little gag.
I thought I'd have some fun with you.
Yeah, sure you had me going
for a little while, too.
- It wouldn't have made a bad story at that.
- No, great.
But that's the way things go.
You think you'