The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-07-09

uruer ne coulu not nave managed to
climb into the vehicle.
For the first mile Of the trip he hung
on with a death grip and said nothing.
Then, as no calamity happened, he got
over his scare a bit and proceeded to
observe:
my dear and charming Miss Deland,
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 MILFORD in
terror for the next five minutes. He
had not been smashed up or thrown
out, and he began again:
II make no excuse for following you
to America. AS I told your dear moth
er in London
The electric started for the ditch, and
Clara screamed, and for few seconds
there was every promise of a tragedy.
Milford gasped prayer and dug In his
toes. and when the vehicle was once
more in the straight and narrow path
its conductress said:
l
fused me, but will do better hence
forth. You We're saying that you told
or 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 II we were racing with a locomo-
tiveT
"Oh, not at all. my lord. You were
saying
II 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 his nerve and
made a marriage proposal then. Mi
lord thought it was all over, and it was
fully five minutes before he could
swallow the lump In his throat and
gasp out:
"My dear, II we were to take a
slower pace believe I should enjoy
the ride more. I felt It my first duty
| to let your mother know what my feel.
ings were toward you, and them
"Why, you don't call this fast 60
| ing, do you" interrupted the girl.
| "We have simply been lingering.
will now show you the speed I gen.
orally ride at"
She showed him. He figured it out
that it was a thousand miles an hour,
but of course 1t was only twenty. He
needed encouragement to 60 on, and
Miss Clara gave 1t to him by observ-
Ing:
"Yes, you spoke to mamma, and
them
''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 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 toto
queried Clara when things were going
right again.
"Yes, 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 runabout shot to the
right, shot to the left. jumped ahead
and then made "A sudden sweep and
| headed for home. It came to. halt
for just three seconds. but that was
plenty of time for MILFORD TO tumble out
| and remark:
"The scenery is so beautiful here that
| think I will walk back to the house."
"But when the private interview had
! been accorded"-
| "Yes! Um! Yes. think 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 well as I do''-