The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-20

and heard enough Of You 10 make
no further effort to thwart or even
TO influence you. Yet I have a prop
osition to make. First OF all, con,
slider these things. II we come to
no ARRANGEMENT with each other !
shall use every means ] can to pre-
vent your obtaining an interview
with my father. Everything IS in
my favor. He is very old. he has q
hatred for strangers. he grants
audiences to no one. He never
passes outside the grounds OF the
villa, and all the gates III guarded
by sentries, who admit no one save
those who have the entree. Then,
II you attempt to approach him BY
correspondence. his private secre-
tary, who opens avery letter, is n
OF my own appointing. I have ex-
aggerated none Of these things. II
will be difficult for you to approach
the King. You may suoceed-you
seem to have the knack OF success
but II will take time. Isobel's
temperance will be without dig.
nifty, and open to many remarks
for various reasons You may ever
fail to convince my father, and II
you failed the first time there
would be no second opportunity"
"What you say. Madame" l ad-
mi,ted, rs reasonable. nav
assumed that as yet my task
is completed. l recognize fully the
difficulties that are still before me-"
you have common sense, Mr..
Greatson, l am glad TO see," she
continued. II am the more inclined
TO hope that you will accede to my
proposition. Briefly, It is this! Let
me have the credit Of bringing Iso-
bel to her grandfather. Her year
in London would at all times. in
these days of scandal, be a some.
what delicate matter to publish.
What you have done, you have
done, as | very well know, from no
hope Of or desire for reward. Efface
yourself. II will be for Isobel's
good. l myself shall stand sponsor
for her to the world. l shall have
discovered her In the convent here,
and l shall take her back to her
rightful place with triumph. All
your difficulties then will vanish,
your end will have been c~reditably
and adequately attained. For my.
self the advantage Is obvious. A
difference to Adelaide It must make,
but 1t will inevitably be less II the
credit Of her discovery remains
with me. Have l made myself clear,
Mr.. Greatsonf"
Perfectly" I answered. But
you forget there is Isobel herself
to be considered. She is no longer
a child. She has opinions and a
will OF her own"
she owes too much to you"
Madame replied quietly, ito disre-
gard your wishes"
believed from the first that the
woman was in earnest, and her pro
posal an honest one. And yet I
hesitated. The past was q little
recent. She showed that she read
my thoughts.
Come" she said, "I will prove
to you that l mean what I say. To-
night ! will give a dinner party
informal, It is true, but the Prince
Of Gloves, my cousin the Cardinal,
and your own ambassador, shall
come. ! will introduce isobel as my
niece. The affair will then be es.
t~ablished. Do You %consent2"
For n moment I hesitated. I
knew very well what my answer
Absolute effacement, the
tearing out Of my life for ever Of
had become the sweetest part
Of 1t. In that single moment It
seemed to me that / realized with
something like complete despair the
barrenness of the days to come.
Madame, II Isobel is to be per-
suaded, answered, II consent"