The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-27


serious now. Before | make Dave
marry you. you got to promise that
you'll behave. You remember how
savage he was when he said he'd beat
you Well, IL you don't behave he'll
do It. He'll break you just like he
does horses!"
Yes. yes!" she laughs, and hugs
me, IL know"
Well. I hate to see Dave treat you
like a horse"
Don't the horses like him after
ward ?"
You bet they do"
so shall |, daddy darling"
What, you mean that you amt
afraid to be broke like a horse by
Dave?"
She shook her head.
BY goshens, ] believe you're crazy
to have him do IT,"
She mods.
Well | says, Il expect the soldier
was right that | am a little slow at
the head. I'll never understand that"
Not TIL you're a woman" says
l Evelyn. Good night, daddy, dear.
l And thank you for not saying it the
'other time. No, Wait | have an
idea"
"Hurry-before it gets away"
laughs ].
They're both so innocent and
trusting, not such villains as you and
]. that, maybe, Jon and Dave would
believe that that is the cause OF my
illness--getting ready for my we'd
ding. IL was so crazy for IL, You
know that's an awful strain on
girl"
I've never been a girl" says !.
But how are you going to make
Dave believe In the craziness for the
wedding? He's asked you seventy
five times 10 fix day and you
wouldn't"
IL couldn't, daddy, daddy dear
Don't you see that this was hanging
over me? Oh, II has been like the
sword OF Damocles ever since Dave
came. For, IL was then too late al
ready. What ] had TO do to-day was
inevitable then Wasn't II awful?"
Rather awful says |, but don't
say dam It's not nice for ladies'
though, of course, knew who
Damocles was---I looked il up. The
way to fix II is TO fix old Jon first
and then get him after Dave. Davell
believe anything Jointly tells him
II it's that the end OF the world is
coming tomorrow at seven minutes
apast eight. And Jonll believe in
anything that comes from you, If II
turns white black. But don't forget
that Dawes the Teller you're going TO
marry. not Jon. and If he'don't know
anything about it,"
She laughs in the oldfashioned
happy way.
Why. what do you think has been
going on right under your big old
nose all the timer
well, what?" says !.
Daddy, Dave asked me to marry
him the first day and also the second
and third day after he came home
Gosh. a mighty" says l. Now,
you don't say. you don't really say
so! That quick! Not minute vast
ed. And what did you say"
She laughs again, like she'd burst
open.
what did I say Do you really
have to be told that?'
YES says, IL want to know. I'm
thick In my skull.
Then she turns solemn.
"Why. daddy, said what every
other woman on earth would have
said. IL he had asked them"
He didn't ask the others, ex-
pect," says I, anyhow. not quite all
of them. And don't know what they
said. But what did you say?--thats
the conundrum that bothers me-"
She pulls my ear down and wins
pers in II;
"Yes! And then. so that he couldn't
misunderstand--it would have been
frightful for him to misunderstood,
like his dear old daddy, wouldn't IT.
IL expect So" mods /.
swell. then. so that he might not
misunderstood, / said 1t many times
over. and every time / said 1t l.
Gosh She kisses me about hfty
times!
Now, is 1t all perfectly plain?' she
asks.
well" says, IL expect that means
that you're engaged
"Oh. daddy! What did you do
when that happened? Maybe you are
a little thick" She hammers my
head.
me? | had to have 1t plain as
big red barn. You can't fire things
into me like out of a gun got to
have time 10 think what II is first.
Up and down. right and left, back
ward and forward, inside and out.
asked mother, right out II she'd marry
me. No kissing And she said just
as right out that she would. Then
she puts her hands down at her sides.
and / pushes my whiskers out OF the
way and kisses her. Anyhow, think
did. That was the intention
though I'm not sure where struck.
You see. I had read all about propos-
ing in The Lovers Companion, and
so far as could recollect when u
happened, that is the way 1t said, and
that is the way 1t happened-so far
as could recollect."
eff Dave and had only known that
you had The Lovers Companion!
suppose we did II very badly. On
the frst day he just suggests IT, On
the second day he demands 1t. On
the third he suddenly lifts me from
my horse, and nearly breaks me IN
two. You're going to be married.
says he, before you know 1t, girl! ! :
You don't say SOL says |. And
who is the unhappy bridegroom
I am says Dave. Now say
whsnr"