Show S JL abil CIA A HOPELESS CAE k g r 7 v p desmond ans a disposer inelli They were tha the in thi the of her she gre could coad mate la in a move marriage wm was a sort of homicidal manta mania with her nobody over ever made the slightest resistance against her de decrees brees when she abe thought it proper for a man to propose to a girl she simply told bun blin that the hour had bad a arrived she haaf wasi I 1 incontrovertible a as tn I 1 but tony seton was mrs Demnon desmonds ds despair r three times had sti she e invited him to her country house and twice hadaa he let umed in inso 14 Jeh ewaa la j in despal despair 1 T U U I 1 I 1 bif j mrs desmond was hon honestly fond of tony seton She Shei wonIS buld be have done almost anything for him except let him remain i single eingle that was too much even for har affection bachelors and funerals I 1 abate gatei sale paid tony even though be t were a bachelor bachelor ze she could not hate ate he was too big and brown and lor that ever hated hinic tony salil said mrs desmond one morning adny lam wn gorog to toglee tog aeve lve you oDe more chance A girl is coming comin 9 to see me eh charming arming girl by th that at I 1 mean a rich girl that is my idea of a charming girl her name isi tola lorimer now tony and mrs desmond shook lbook her forefinger at him menacingly this is your very last chance all I 1 have done for you you have been almost as much trouble and worry orry to me as my husband was he was J singularly thoughtless man until ho he idea of dying well I 1 gnp tose every one has axas one clever idea some gome time e only sa so few act upon it you have been my na desti despair air tor 0 three years bo I 1 with a lot of money if you had c been expedit expeditious lo 10 and now youve let fanny F anny russell engage herself to this this cousin 19 vit I 1 donic love any girls exposto tona tony ge getting g redder as hla his hostess enumerated hia delinquencies love theft she exclaimed scornfully 1 lam I am talking of marriage now I 1 want you yon to make up your mind or whatever you yon call it to marry viola orimer she is a woman of the world and you yon will be admirably suited to each other incidentally she Is t very rich will you promise to do this for me really you owe me something you have been awfully good to tome me 11 acknowledged tony of conr cours KeI 31 h bare she agreed 1 sa s1 I have beon been perfect to you did I 1 ever mate you yon do anything disagreeable such as ag gotting getting me ices at parties or dancing with dull debutantes never but yon want me to marry elsae one any one she corrected in small matters uke like that I 1 may be I 1 own but in big worldly affairs I 1 am extremely liberal I 1 never made you leave cards after one dinner before I 1 asked yon to another did I 1 ano no 11 there yon see beel I 1 you yon will never have aa a friend like me not even if you to be a thousand now you must ask alss gjori mer to marry you perhaps she wont sugie suggested tony with a suspicion of hope in his voice oh said mrs mm desmond conclusively clu she will jump at you you are arc very good looking do you know that tony only you mus muo be careful not to get fat you big lair fair people so often get fat in your ol oia dage age cat me ma me eee how bow old arenout are you twenty eight 1 Re heavens avenal you ought to have been married ages ago age I 1 I 1 in due course coarse tony seton was introduced to miss lorimer and he was fain to acknowledge that she was charming tony who had never known a moment of few fear in his whole life realized that he was in great danger he had killed grizzlies grizzlier grizz lies in the becky Rocky mountains and he had bad hunted bunted tigers in indian jungles but be felt very insecure when a week after b his is introduction he found himself in the leafy seclusion of the conservatory alone with miss min Ij TAl orimer rimer tony asked her bar to marry him and she refused him point blank sho she explained that the she was engaged fi already aready sho she let jet tony hold her ber band however tony was not above thosa things even though he was unmarried |