Show 1 did his hi own proposing by H IRVING KING copyright ITTIE LANGTON lind had been proposed KITTIE K to several times and had said a prompt no to each of E the whereupon the rejected ones had after sulking for a while gone off and married somebody else kittle cared for only OUR one man in the world r and ho fie would not propose she knew lie he wanted to und and several times thile 4 ito ho had been upon the very verge of doing so had in fact begun lits ills little speed speech and then becoming scared trailed oft off into pOm something ething else white while tho the yia yes which she was prepared to hand him hill was trembling on her tongue tills this almost but not quito conduct on oil the part of leonard grifiin was avas partly due to a natural diffidence anti partly t to it horror of henring hearing the aso no willell which lie fie feared would ho he kittles answer kittle with a domans womans intuition comprehended leonards state of mind and treated him capriciously now nov encouraging cou raging him nil all that it a property properly brought up maiden could kind and then vex vexed od with herself for doing so anta and more vexed with leonard for lila its hesitancy lashing him with little sarcasms which sent him into the doleful dumps in III one of these there moods leonard picked up Long fellows poem wl which tells tellis how flow tile the valiant lit captain miles standish afraid to propose in person t to 0 priscilla 11 tillen sent john alden to ask the momentous question for mill him this struck leonard as an all excellent idea on the part of captain standish sh but the result gave him pause for everybody knows that at miss mill lens suggestion john alden spoke fr for himself and left captain to told hold the hag bag still the moro more lie pen lion dc red over the matter the more tho the idea of a vl vicarious carious proposal appealed to leonard kittles no it if title she uttered it would be blighting enough to lo him but its full fall force might be partially modi modified fled by the buffer of a third party he resolved to try it but warned by the fiasco in tile the captain capt ain standish sli case lie he determined to choose fisfis as ahls 4 intermediary some one de barred py by previous contract from playing the part of young mr alden in its entirety tir there was jack davisi I 1 ile ho was engaged to florence ile he would he bt a safe envoy so he too took jack into his film confidence jack was delighted with the proposition the next evening jack went forth upon his mission while leonard remained in his bachelor apartments in such a state or oc nervous agitation that he smoked uncounted cigarettes and fiddled fiddle with ills his watch until lie ho broke the mainspring about ten jim hazzard who occupied the just over leonards came in for a smoke and a chat before going to be bed ills his advent adent was a precious boon to leonard jim was a great talker anti and rattled on with all the latest latest gossip finally bursting out with did you hear about jack davis and florence merriman Merrl man everybody said they were engaged but it seems they are not wonder who started that story anyway why the matter mattei with your you 5 leonard had turned pale jack D fancy fabey free the outcome of the he standish mullen alden episode e came rushing upon him jack alie I 1 bold n I 1 d ti alie I 1 e dashing the winner of the smiles of women he had sent him as ills agent to kittle langton ile he felt like taking tile the first train to plymouth and weeping tears of sympathy over tit alip grave of captain standish if lie could find it jim departed and leonard was left to a lonely half hour of agentz agonized d suspense then appeared ills his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary tent iary lary to the court of love jacl jack came in with a pensive and subdued look which was entirely foreign to III ills s aspect leonard read ills his counte countenance nanca as if reading the scroll of doom well said leonard at length well sighed jack 1 I delivered the goods for you just as I 1 told you I 1 would made one of the prettiest little pleas you ever heard in bour your life fire and she rejected me I 1 suppose said leonard dole dolefully full y why replied jack she did not exactly accept you she seemed to be vexed about something made some sarcastic reni remarks arks about secondhand second hand propos proposals jils and that sort of thing however I 1 changed the subject find and soon had her in good humor and then said leonard why and then continued jack as she had rejected you I 1 thought i 1 would try on my own account you traitor I 1 cried leonard starting up you proposed and she accepted you dont get hot under tinder the collar said jack 1 I proposed all right but site she just handed me tho the mitten two mittens in one oae night one for you and one for me that girl Is IB going some well so long leonard passed a feverish night As he went out the next morning he encountered the janitor in the hall nailing on a loose piece of wainscoting 1 I told the carpenter to do this a week ago volunteered the janitor but I 1 guess the only way to get any thing done Is to do it yourself the only way to get anything done is to do it yourself the words stuck in leonards consciousness do it yourself ft 1 do it yourself J rumbled the wheels of the car as he ha rode down town mid and that eliat night lie did do it him and kittle after scolding him for his miles standish sli stunt said yes yea |