The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-18

ne 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
mixing of what he was driving at
was 1t 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
thlng 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.
1T makes for great much. II a
man loves
1T isn't his father that loves a man
In heaven is it,"
MY father-no! He loves a wo-
man.
who loves woman, the live man
or the dead one?"
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, L desire that
you honor my son by giving him your
daughter for wife"
What's the son doing all this time,
playing marbles or humble the-peg or
hopScotchT
J 1t was now NJ de Touches turn to
look astonished. He had never heard
of such games as mumble-t he-peg and
: hopscotch. But with his establishment
there was distress.
81 see what you mean," said Lucille
alphabetically. This friend Of yours
is in love with a girl whose father Is
dead. He wants to ask the father for
the daughter, but can't get at him."
"Not my friend. No. no; not my
: friend, but
! lis he your enemyT
"He is myself" shouted CASTOR In
desperation.
ooh, 1t Is you who are In love? Well
why do you need father to tell the
lady's father who IL In heaven thai
you love his daughter? He can't bt
!. expected to take an interest in affairs
on this little globe, whereas II YOU
Y nave a proposition to make to CIR
7 quite likely she would be very glad t
hear It"
k And she would not think ze gentle
j. man-how you cal! it-too fresh?'
It "If he were Frenchman she woul,
think all the more Of him for cuttin!
d the stupid red tape that the Frencl
,r people have used for centuries"
l. what have re red tape to do with
s. matter of lover"
Of You're paying me Off in my ow1
is coin, aren't your replied Lucille.
lg ut Is re coin--ze funds-ze settle
IN ments that want for my father.
t. wish for him to arrange all that The
| tell you that love you, Mees Wal
tn rem, and my life If do not have 20,
10 is one YER big wilderness"
n Miss Warren, though disposed
u smile at the only two real America
y. words EVER big" in the declaration
IN was touched by the mans offer of b
ed love and ceased to torment him by pr
Ut tending not to understand him. Sh
ei encouraged him to discard the CONVEX
~ tional and take up sentiment by pla
~ ing her hand in his.
~ IF you will not he my wife," he sal
~ encouraged by this. 81 will throw m,
-. self in the Seine"
IN. Unfortunately there came at tn
q, moment to Miss Warren remeI
ba brance that the proposer had turn'
,at down her picture with the single
ed pressive word "execrable'
art How can you expect one who
work which cost her months OF to
ct you called execrable, to marry your
to Work? In English you have sa
ms ing. All work and no play II "
of had been making a great picture
to would have been the opposite. All pl
bic and no work.
lie, Lucille laughed You are right s
CHI said. II struggled over that pictul
the Genius. according to my interpretati
sh- of genius, doesn't struggle. What
an. does seems very easy
'ty, Then she became serious ana te
the man who had proposed TO her I'll
ian In America ususlly IL man loved
GIT woman he told her So and II she WIS
lef- ed to marry him she referred him
ellie her parent or brother. but this was
esS most cases meantngless-a dead let
ne that had been Inherited from Europe
ancestors. She took his proposit
me under consideration, but he did
yet an affirmative answer TOT ma
IRE months and after many repetltions
II his proposal Then she said to him
monsieur. dreamed last night u
died and went 20 heaven, where
u saw my father. He told me that "
father had also died and on JOIN
him had asked him for my mana
De his son. My father told me mat