The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-12

II fear, monsieur, that If your ia
ther wishes to make love to my father
he will have to go to paradise to
do So"
Mon Dieu, that is not what mean!
| wish my father to speak Of affairs
to your father. The love has to do
with others"
By this time Lucille began to get an
inkling Of what he was driving at
Was 1t a natural feminine inclination
to throw Off a man who was bent on
proposal, or had the opportunity to
get even with one who had made an
adverse criticism on her painting some
thing to do with It? At any rate, she
was bent on assisting her proposer In
entangling himself.
What In the world have two old
men. one Of whom is dead. to do with
a love that exists In some one else?"
she asked.
ut makes for a great much. II a
man loves
1T isn't his father that loves a man
in heaven, is it?'
my father-nol He loves a wo-
man"
who loves a woman, the live man
or the dead one2"
why you not understand The ia
Their of the man who loves. he visits
the father Of the woman he loves
What has he to do with it?"
Everything. He says, I desire that
you honor my son by giving him your
daughter for a wife"
What's the son doing all this time,
playing marbles or mble-the-peg or
hopscotch?'
1t was now NJ. de Touches turn to
look astonished. He had never heard
Of such games as mumble-the peg and
hopscOtch. But with his establishment
there was distress.
II see what you mean," said Lucille
alphabetically. This friend Of yours
Is in love with girl whose father Is
dead He wants to ask the father for
the daughter, but can't get at him"
mot my friend. No. no; not my
friend. but
lis he your enemyT
HE is myselfr' shouted CASTOR In
desperation.
"Oh, 1t Is you who are in love? Well,
why do you need a father to tell the
,,ca1y's father who IL In heaven that
you love his daughter2 He can't be
expected to take an interest in affairs
on this little globe, y.eleas = you
Aa'e 4 proposition 10 make to a girl
quite likely she would be very glad to
hear IT,"
And she would ny. {a....; se gentle
man-how yor call it-tco trcsh?"
~ ::e wryr .':cavnlnan she would
ILL.,, a.; TIC ;norc ~ ti", r:r c;,.s.;lg
the stupid red tape that the French
people have used for centuries"
What have re red tape to do with a
matter of love?"
You're paying me Off in my own
coin, aren't your" replied Lucille.
st is re coin-ze funds-ze settle
ments that ! want for my father. I
wish for him to arrange all that. Then
| tell you that l love you. Mees War
rem, and my life, If do not have you.
is one YER big wilderness"
Miss Warren, though disposed to
smile at the only two real American
words 'ver' big" In the declaration,
was touched by the mans offer of his
love and ceased to torment him by pre-
tending not to understand him. She
encouraged him to discard the conven-
uonal and take up sentiment by plac-
ing her hand in his.
IF you will not be my wife," he said.
encouraged by this, 81 will throw my.
self in the Seine"
Unfortunately there came at this
moment TO Miss Warren a remem-
brance that the proposer had turned
down her picture with the single ex-
pressive word "execrable."
How can you expect one whose
work which cost her months of toll,
you called execrable, to marry your
Work? In English you have a say.
ing, All work and no play II you
had been making a great picture 1t
would have been the opposite. All play
and no work."
Lucille laughed. you are right" she
said. II struggled over that picture.
Genius, according to my Interpretation
of genius. doesn't struggle. What 1t
does seems very easy
Then she became serious and told
the man who had proposed to her that
in America usually, II a man loved a
woman he told her so. and IL she wish
ed to marry him she referred him to
her parent or brother. but this was In
most cases meaningless-a dead letter
that had been inherited from European
ancestors. She took his proposition
under consideration. but he did not
get an affirmative answer for many
months and after many repetitions of
his proposal Then she said to him:
Monsieur, dreamed last night that
l died and went to heaven, where l
saw my father. He told me that your
father had also died and on Joining
him had asked him for my hand for
his son. My father told me that he