The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-07-28

can do. since wish my father to
speak Of a matter Of love to your IA
ther?
Miss Warren's eyes expressed amaze
ment. There was no other reply for
a few moments, wbenNhe said:
II fear, monsieur. that II your IA.
ther wishes to make love to my father
he will have to so to paradise to
do So"
mon Dieu, that Is not what l 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
a 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 one?"
"Why you not understand? The IA
theY 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,"
whats the son doing all this time,
playing marbles or mumble-t he-peg or
hopscotcb?'
1t was now M. de Touches turn to
look astOnished. He had never heard
Of such games as mumble-the-peg andf
hopscotch. But with his astonishment
there was distress.
IL see what you mean." said Lucille
sympathetically. This friend Of your
is in love with girl whose father i;o
dead He wants to ask the father 70
the daughter. but can't get at him." A.,
mot my friend. No, no; not m ,
friend, but .
- as he your enemy?" -.
"He is myselfv' shouted CASTOR Il
desperation.
"Oh, 1t is you who are In love? Wei
why do you need a father to tell th' Z
lady's father who is in heaven tina
you love his daughter? He can't b 7
expected to take an interest In AFFAIR." c
on this little globe, whereas IL vol g
have a proposition to make to a git
quite likely she would be very glad &
hear it."
"And she would not think re gentle I
man-how you call it-too fresh"
eff he were a Frenchman she woulj
think all the more Of him for cutting
the stupid red tape that the French
people have used for centuries"
what have re red tape to do with
matter Of lover
you're paying me off in my own
coin, aren't your replied Lucille.
cit Is re coin-Ze funds-Ze settle
ments that want for my father.
wish for him to arrange all that. Then
l 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-
tional 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 you"
Work? In English you have say
ing, All work and no play If you
had been making great picture it
would have been the opposite. All play
and no work."
Lucille laughed. You are right" she
said. 81 struggled over that picture.
Genius, according to my Interpretation
of genius, doesn't struggle. What it
does seems very easy"
Then she became serious and told
the man who had proposed to her that
In America usually, If man loved a
woman he told her so, and if she wish
ed to marry him she referred him to
her parent or brother, but this was In
most cases meaningless 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
died and went to heaven, where
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