The Democratic advocate., 1908-09-04

I Will not be announced except at regu.
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I When she realized that a second
proposal from MILFORD was inevitable
she chose her own ground to receive if
That is, she invited the living remains
to take trip with her over the high
ways. Had he been young man OF
thirty he would have scented deviltrv
in the air. Had he been few yea.s
older he could not have managed ia
| climb into the vehicle.
For the first mile of the trip he huno
on with death grip and said nothing
Then, as no calamity happened, he got
over his scare a bit and proceeded ia
observe:
My dear and charming Miss Delanl.
you remember that in London
The dear and charming one steered
the vehicle over the humpy ground be
side the track, and the bumps and
bounces that followed kept milord in
terror for the next five minutes. He
had not been smashed up or thrown
out and he began again:
81 make no excuse for following you
to America. AS told your dear moth
er in London
The electric started for the ditch. AMI
Clara screamed, and for few seconds
there was every promise of tragedy
Milford gasped a prayer and dug In his
toes, and when the vehicle was Oh, e
more in the straight and narrow path
its conductress said;
II think It was your talk that con-
forth. You were saying that you told
or I told or mother or some one else
told somebody something in London"
Eyes. Is it positively necessary, my
dear Miss Deland, to drive this vehicle
as if we were racing with locomo-
tiveT'
"Oh, not at all, my lord. You were
saying
Il was saying to your mother that
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 hts nerve and
made marriage proposal then. Mi
lord thought it was all over, and it was
fully five minutes before he could
swallow the lump IN hts throat and
gasp out:
"Iy dear, if we were to take a
slower pace I believe I should enjoy
the ride more. I felt it my first dutv
to let your mother know what my feel
ings were toward you. and them
"VEhv Won 1oz,,f fb;S focf
ing do you?" interrupted the girl
1--WE have simply been lingering
will now show you the speed gen.
orally ride at"
She showed him. He figured it out
that it was q thousand miles an hour.
but Of course it was only twenty. He
needed encouragement to 60 on. and
Miss Clara gave it to him by observ-
ing:
Eyes, you spoke to mamma. and
them
'Tben. my dear, l had the courage
| to-
Away went the machine for q 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
running on two wheels.
"You had the courage to-to"-
queried Clara when things were going
right again.
eyes, my dear girl, had the cour-
age as we'll as the honor to ask for a
private interview with you, and when
it had been accorded r.
At this point the runabou shot to the
right, shot to the left. jumped ahead
and then made sudden sweep and
headed for home. 1t came to a halt
for Just three seconds, but that was
plenty of time for milord to tumble out
and remark:
'oThe scenery is 50 beautiful here that
1 think will walk back to the house. y
"But when the private interview had
been accorded"-
"Yes! Um! Yes, / think I will
walk
"Well?" asked the mother when the
daughter reached home.
''He never proposed. He didn't half
propose" was the answer, "and now
if Mr.. Lee calls and you like him half
as we'll as dp''-
'+Clara, you go to your room. Mi
lord leaves tomorrow. You have
frightened him out of America