The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-22

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When she realized that second
proposal from MILFORD was inevitable.
ceive it. That is she invited the liv-
ing remains to take a trip with her
over the highways. Had he been a
young man of thirty he would have
been a few years Older he could not
have managed to climb into the
vehicle.
For the first mile of the trip he
hung on with death grip and said
| nothing. Then. as no calamity hap
pened., he got over his scare a bit and
proceeded to observe:
my dear and charming Miss De-
land, you remember that in Lon
The dear and charming one steered
the vehicle over the humpty ground
beside the track and the bumps and
bounces that followed kept Milford in
| terror for the next fine minutes He
nao not been smashed up or thrown
| out. and he began again:
IT make no excuse for following
you to America. AS told your dear
mother In London"
| The electric started for the ditch
and Clara screamed. and for a few
| seconds there was every promise of a
tragedy, MILFORD gasped a prayer and
dug In his toes. and when the
| vehicle was once more in the straight
and narrow path its conductress said:
Il think 1t was your talk that con-
fused me, but + will do better hence
forth. You were saying that you told,
or told, or mother or some one else
told somebody something in London"
Yes; Is it positively necessary. my
vehicle as If we were racing with a
locomotive?"
..~ ~0a. not at all. my lord. You were
II was saying to your mother that I
had met my ideal at last, and that"
This time the electric left the road
and brushed the hazel bushes, and no
man would have kept his nerve and
made marriage proposal then Mi
was fully five minutes before he could
swallow the lump in his throat and
gasp out:
My dear, If we were to take a slow
er pace. I believe I should enjoy the
ride more. felt 1t my first duty to
were toward you. and then"
why, you don't call this fast going
do your" interrupted the girl. 1--WE
have simply been lingering. I will now
at"
She showed him. He figured 1t out
that it was a thousand miles an hour,
but of course it was only 20. He need
ed encouragement to go on, and MISS
Clara gave it to him by observing:
Yes. you spoke to- mamma, and
then"
"Then, my dear, I had the courage
to-
Away went the machine for a tele-
!. graph pole, and the living remains for
: got his dignity and cried out in appre-
hension. He was gathering himself for
| q Jump When the vehicle missed the
pole by all of three-eighths of an Inch
. and was guided back into the road run
ming on two wheels.
You had the courage to-to-?
| uueried Clara, when things were going
right again.
Eyes, my dear girl, I had the cour-
. age as we'll as the honor to ask for a
private interview with you, and wher
|. it had been accorded, l.
At this point the runabout shot to
| the right-shot to the 1eft-5umpeo
ahead, and then made a sudden sweep
| and. headed for home. 1t came to a
/. halt for just. three seconds, but that
was plenty Of time for Milford to tum-
BILE out and remark:
THE scenery Il so beautiful here that
I think will walk back to the house.
But when the private Interview had
| been accorded
Eyes! Um! Yes, think will walk. '
"well?" asked the mother when the
daughter reached home.
He never proposed-he didn't nah
: PROPOSE" was the answer. and now
If Mr.. Lee calls and you like him haI
; as well as 1 do"
"Clara, you go to your room! Milort
leaves tomorrow. You have frightened
him out Of America!'-(Copyrig
1908. by Associated Literary Press)
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