The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-25

and protector who would prevent people
from meddling with her affairs. That would
stop her being pestered to death by officious
people.
again 'Grandapa' Perry was dead, ard
her pgrandmother, Mrs. Perry, she
learned, was about 10 get married herself
Mrs. Perry is still a young woman, being
but So years old. She Is about to marry a
man named Burns. Florence calculated all
these things. and saw that her best course
was TO have good husband. who would love
and protect her.
True. / knew she was engaged to Hinckl ley,
but even l myself did not know that the
marriage was &c come off so quickly. About
a half hour before the marriage | received
a note from Florence telling me she wanted
to see my wife and me at the Palace Hotel
on very important business.
81 did not know il was a case of matri-
mony When arrived | soon grasped the
situation Florence was bent on getting
married and to escape from all worry, and
Hipckley also desired it.
''He is very fine young man and has
good prospects. He said that he preferred
to marry Florence before the tual decision
of tie Supreme Court, and II she lost the
case 1t would not make any difference to
him, as he loved Florence for herself and
would take care OF her through life"
you said something about being pestered
Win SuilOTS, baiu the w nat
Kind Of suitors did she have"
II do not think that there is a woman liv-
ing who has had the written proposals that
Florence Blythe has received" said the
Attorney General.
''She has been offered by a prominent
book firm $4,000 for the proposals in writ
ing she has received from noblemen in
Europe.
They would make one Of the strongest,
funniest and most salabe and readable
books issued for years.
"She has had offers of marriage from
about sixty titled Europeans.
Lords, counts, dukes, bayons, Viseounts,
marqutses and one prince make up the list.
Some OF the letters making the proposals
are long.
"They are all genuine beyond doubt.
This is proved by the methods of iden-
tification taken.
Gold. red and blue seals, armorial bear.
ings, heraldic emblems and attes of
foreign Consuls, all prove the geIuineness
of these remarkable documents.
1.-The photographing of the seals and arms
and ensgns embazoned with all the gor-
geonsnesS of hersldry would be quite job.
These documents are as interesting as
their heraldic concentrations indicate.
Most remarkable are some Of the pfopo-
sitions made
No true American girl. with the first idea
OF her wOmanhood. would ever marry a
European nobleman after having once read
the remarkable letters of Florence Blythe.
"The proposals are all couched In the
grandlase vocabulary of affected greatness
the language Of those misguided mortals
who imagine themselves, by some divine
ances trail right, the superiors Of the rest of
mankind, who were not accidentally born in
q baroniai hall.
"Bnt in all the letters woman is regarded
as chattel, a thing to be bought and sold.
We know what you are, says one.
The history OF your birth is familiar to US,
but that does not make any difference to US.
We know you are rich, and money will wash
away everything. Our proposition is plain.
we Will allow you to share our title. and
You can be styled countess. We expect
in return the use of your fortune
I'm more -blooded bargain sale terms
than this, some of the letters are written,
the chattel mortgage propositions being
thinly yelled in the ornamental rhetoric
affected by titled personages.
mo woman who has any self-respect
would marry any of these jackanapes,"
said the Attorney General.