The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-09-05
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laughingly.
Certainly she said unblushingly.
AUST as you had decided on the early
spring, Rut listen, dear. am willing
to say September of this year"
lone. two, three-seven months.
They seem like years, Jane. You won't
say June2"
please. please LEI me have some Of
the perquisites,'' she pleaded. 1T
hasn't seemed at all like u proposal
I've really been cheated Of that, you
must remember. dear. Let me say at
least, as they all do, that III give you
an answer in three days"
Granted! I'll admit il wasn't the
sort Of proposal one reads about in
novels
"But it was precisely as they are in
real life, I'm sure. No n has a stere-
otyped proposal any more. The men
always take 1t for granted and begin
planning things before a girl can say
no."
"Ah, | see it has happened to you"
he said, jealous at once.
"Well. isn't that the way men do
nowadays?' she demanded.
"A fellow has to feel reasonably
sure. | dare say, before he takes a
chance, No one wants to be refused,
you know" he admitted. "Oh, by the
way, | brought thls-er-this ring up
with me, Jane"
you darllngr' she cried as the ring
slipped down over her finger. And
then for the mex hour they planned.
and the future seemed a thousandfold
brighter than the present, glorious as
it was.
you can't help succeeding she re
peated, "the same rs your father has
Isn't he wonderful? Oh, Graydon. I'm
so proud Of your she cried enthusi
astically.
Il can never be the mar that the
governor is" said Graydon Loyalty. 81
couldn't be as big as father if | LIVED
to be 1876. He's the best ever! He!
done everything for me, Jane" the sol
went on warmly. "Why, he ever lief
dear old New York and came to Chi
cage for my sake, dear. It's the plae,
for a young man, he says, and he CAV,
up a great practice so that we nigh
be here together. OF course be coul,
succeed anywhere. Wasn't it bully 0
him to come to Chicago just-just 70
me?'
Eyes. Oh, If you'll only he as goo,
looking as he is when you are fifty
fvep she said so ~plaintively that h
laughed aloud. You'll probably b
very fat and very bald by that time"
"And very healthy, If that can max
It seem more horrible to you" he ado
: ~ -. some time he sat ponderm
: while she stared refectively into tn
. fire opposite. Then. squaring his shou
ders as If preparing for q trying tasl
. he announced firmly: II suppose l.
; just as well see your father tonigh-
dearest. He likes me, I'm sure, and l.
. don't think he'll refuse to let me hav
! you. Do your
my dads just as fair as yours, Gray
she said, with a smile. Hes upstalT
in his den. I'll go to mother. | kno1
she'll be happy-oh, so happyg'
Bansemer found David Cable in b
room upstairs, his smoking and thinl
ing room. as he called Il.
Come in, Graydon. Don't stop t
knock. How are you? Cigarette
: Take a cigar, then. Bad night outsid,
isn't itT'
! as it? l hadn't-er-noticed," sal
1 Graydon, dropping into a chair an
nervously nipping the end from a cigal
Have you been downtown
ayes. Just got in a few minutes age
The road expects to do a lot of wor
west his year, and I've been talkin
! with the ways and means gentlemen
. a polite and parliamentary way to pr
it."
n II suppose Wen all be congratulatin
j you after the annual election, Mr.. c;
ble?"
: "Oh. that's just talk, my boy. Win,
! mann is the logical man for presideD
! But where is Jane?"
"She's-ah-downstairs, | think" sal
. the tall young man, putting vigorousl!
II came up-er-to see you about Jam
4 Mr.. Cable. | have asked her to be m
wife, sir"
n For a full minute the keen eyes {
the older man, sharpened by strife an
= experience, looked straight into tn
y earnest gray eyes Of the young ma
who now stood across the room wit
his hand on the mantelpiece. Cable
cigar was held poised in his finger
half way to his lips. Graydon Bal
e semer felt that the man aged a year
that brief moment.
"You know, Graydon, 1 love jar
myself" said Cable at last, arisir
I slowly. His voice shook.
IL know, Mr.. Gable. She is ever
thing to you. And yet l have come
ask you to give her to me-"
1T isn't that l have not suspected
aye, known-what the outcome wou
be-" said the other mechanically. ISL
I will marry, | know. !. is right tn
she should. 1t is right that she shou
I marry you, my boy. You-you do lo'
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