Show Taming Copyright 1919 1010 by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate New York City By KATHLEEN FOX IV HE HE MAKES LOVE TO ME And you are arc the most attractive man Mr Crittenden Hayes Haes that I Ier Irver ever er met I said boldly Indeed for tor fora tora a girl of ot 20 0 O. O And the tho next moment I blushed guiltily althou although h there was no one to hear heal this ver very candid ex- ex ex expression of ot opinion For I voiced It after aCter ho had gone one when hen I J wa was standIng standIng standIng stand- stand Ing In front of ot Ul the mirror In my bedroom bedroom bed bed- room letting down my hair Well he is I retorted defiantly as the girl lrI In the mirror looked at me mc reprovingly Then I turned away to escape the rebuke In the tho mirror girls girl's e eyes e and went to he bed thinking I confess confess con con- fess of ot the man whose attention I had attracted and who had attracted mine My l favorable impression lon of him be became he- he came stronger with his visits He Ile camo to see SI me often orten Wo We e swam a fL great deal in the tho we weeks ks that followed swam and motored and grow to be befriends befriends I friends Also we became Crittendon and Bess to each ach other Daddy looked on apparently without Interest although of ot course his devotion devotion devotion devo devo- tion to me was quite sufficient to es establish establish es- es tho fact act that he wanted mo to have the happiness that over every girl must want Ho told me mo Crittenden Hayes was a n. fine type of or young youn man roan that he came of a n good family had hada a successful business of oC his own and that ho had no objection to himAs himAs himAs him As a matter of fact act De Bess g ho he teased one day when Crittendon's visits had become more and more frequent you are a wise little owl as I well know and I can cnn depend upon you to send Bend him packing p If IC ho he doesn't mea measure lIro up to per centI cent I said nothing In reply but at the time limo I was quite firmly convinced con that Crittenden not only measured up to per cent but hut that ho was man many many points above par And yet yet and and yet yet-i yet I know knew then that Crittenden was obstinate a ag- ag and tremendously assertive assertive- Ho He was as In insistent l tent as ho he was handsome handsome hand hand- some as energetic as ho was physically cally strong while whale the force of oC his convictions was wa comparable only to his keenness of ot mind 1 I There Thero h had tl been man many little Incidents Incidents Incidents Inci Inci- dents in the time I Thad had known him that showed he was a a. man to have what ho he wanted If such a fL thing were humanly possible I had trouble In guessing ln him hen to be an only child as asI I 1 was It Il seemed hp he had a nature that could not be ue denied I knew later that ho he always had what ho wanted i iI an and now that ho was wag a R. man man shrewd shrewd d I capable forceful with desires and tn tastes te developed by the comfortable world he ho lived In In In-ho he wanted many more things and antI got them be before ore he ho stopped Nor was It selfishness alto alto- get gether er It was wag that he ho wanted his hista t a way If Ir h he chose choso to give one something something something some some- thing he would force torce Its Us acceptance In spite of all protests protests protests-he he would have his way regardless reg of everything and e cr everybody Yet knowing these things then I liked him better hetter than any man I ever had known And my liking for or him developed the thc more I saw him It Il was wa natural that Crittenden should make love ns as ho he did everything everything every every- I thing else I was not unprepared for tor hi his cyclonic declaration when It came I had suspected It would como come and In true Crittenden style stylo And It did Ho lIe called one evening and tho the moment moment moment mo mo- ment he entered tho the room began He looked his finest that night his chin high and his steady eyes ees masterful compelling IIo He walked rl right ht up to tome tomo tomo mo me and told mo me all about It And I well well I Just stood there thero and let Jet him hold my han hands s and look at me whole while he told it IL 1 T couldn't have done clone otherwise oth oth- not not with CrIttenden No girl I am sure ure ever cr had a n lover more Impetuous Imp I I love Jove you Bess an and I want you he ho said And I must mut have you ou You are everything I can ask for or In a woI wo wo- man Then looking at mo me and hol holding holdIng hold hold- I III Ing my hands with his own warm strong tron ones he ho went on You love loveI me too Bess dont don't you Sa Say It Bess Dess I sa say say you love me My ly goodness That was my thought then and It still is my thought as I think of or his proposal And tho next moment he had hi his arms about mo me and was kissing me and I him And another moment an and I told him I loved him that I would marry him In fact I told him everything he ho asked granted all he demanded I must say demanded for or It was nothing nothing noth noth- ing else He lie was like Jlko I some ome wild barbarian but hut a n very en handsome barbarian bar bar- barian harlan swooping down upon his lady Inch love 10 an and forcing her to return his af affection affection at- at whether she wanted to or not But But I I wanted to return It jL Monday Monday So So Wo Wore Engaged |