The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-06-24

seen like this before and please God
he will never be seen like this again
so long as we both have life. Now l
want you all to hold up your right
hand and swear to me that you will
, never mention this incident to liv-
ing soul, so doing you will respect
my wish and do no injury to John.
Now Maggie, heat some blankets and
Susie, you get foot bath ready with
salt and mustard in it."
Lucretia knew just what to do. She
gave him aromatic ammonia, and at
intervals a little carbonated water,
, and after time stiff doses of bro
mide and by midnight John had re-
, covered consciousness. Lucretia had
taken all his clothes and locked them
up. In his overcoat she found two
full pints of old rye. Under Lucre-
tia's loving care and skillful ministra-
ton John recovered quickly and in
two days was sitting up and feeling
like man rejuvenated, but so
/ ashamed that he was almost speech
I less, yet his heart beat with I'M
bounded gratitude as he looked in
Lucretia's eyes; eyes that spoke to
him of love and a devotion he had
never known but for which he had
been starving.
Lucretia sent word to her father
that John was visiting-to say moth
ing until she saw him-and that after
the New Years holiday he would be
at work again. She also bought
COX of Webster cigars-John's favo-
rite smoke. s,~. ,.,.,..
The next evening they spent to-
gether in her cozy library and while
John smoked she sang and played
some old-time love songs that touch
the heart and dim the eyes with tears.
"Now John, we need to have good
heart to heart talk. l know your
feelings of remorse and l want to
help you to overcome them and for
get. | want you to promise me that
it will never happen again so long
as we both shall live. But John, l
want you to feel that it was the
greatest thing that ever happened
under my roof, for me, and that my
service for You gave me the most
happiness of any thing in all my life.
| would not have you think me fresh
or too forwad for millions of mon
ey. l know that it is announcement
for a woman to proclaim her love to
the man she adores, but to me it
seems supremacy proper. Love is the
greatest force in the world and to a
woman it means more than all else in
life. Why should l not have the same
right to propose as man has? |
have loved you John from the day I
first heard you lecture and | have suf-
fered ever since from a non-expres-
sion of it. have read your heart and
| think that you have discovered what
is in mine, which makes words use
less. | am going to offer you now
my heart, my love, my all, to be your
welded wife so long as life shall last.
Do you take me?"
''Do l take you? Why, this is the
happiest moment of all my life. l am
so glad that you proposed. You did
it so much better than | could have
done it. Had proposed Lucretia and
been rejected it would have killed me.
When will the happy event take place,
dear?" SIN just thirty days John, if it
suits you and your future salary will
be five hundred a month instead of
fifty. If you will make automobile
parts as you proposed to Dad, we will
double the size of our little village
and bring happiness to a hundred
more new homes. There is nothing
that makes one so happy as giving
happiness to others"
"Your love for me Lucretia has
proven that, proven that it is a wond-
rous, elevating power. So let US seal
our pledges with one long, lingering
kiss"