Show zen YD 0 41 ca NOVEL 0 lj robert stead J 0 y PUNCH EQ ir 90 N C IG H DOW etc ov or you yott inny think I 1 nin precipitate you intimated UH an enuch to nic nie once I 1 am urn I 1 khuu anu of no reason why an honest man should go a beating about the bitiah when I 1 want I X want it unit I 1 make a bee iane for if if it 1 in a contract if it ie Is a nm mat ter I 1 go right after it with all the energy in me when ira im looking for a contract I 1 dont start by talking about the weather well this I 1 Is my first experience in love and per haps my method methods are nil all wrong but it seems to me they should apply at any rate a girl of 0 your intelligence allf understand and applying your business principles he the interrupted 1 I suppose if you wanted a wife and there was none la in eight you would advertise for her ile defended his petition position 1 I dont see gee why not he declared 1 I 1 cant 1 dont see why not ho declared understand the general attitude of levity toward matrimonial advertisements apparently they are ore too open and aboveboard above board matrimony should not be committed in a round about in direct hit or alas manner A young man sees a girl whom he thinks he would like to marry does he lie go to her house and any ailsa miss so anil and so I 1 think I 1 would like to marry you will you allow me to call on you so that we may get bolter better acquainted with that object in view lie ile does not such honesty could be consI considered derad almost brutal he ile calls on her and pretends ho would like to take her to the then ur IT it Is in town pr or for a ride if it in in me auntry country ou she pr clenda the dhe would like to go both of them know hut the real purpose la in and both of them pretend they dont they start tho the force hy by prete pretending tidIng a deceit which deceives nobody they wait tor for nature to set up tip mi an which shall oer overrule rule their judgment rather lhnn net hy by judgment first and leave it to nature to toko toke care of herself llo lion much better it would be to be perfectly frank to boldly announce the purpose to come as I 1 now come to ou and eay say zen I 1 want to marry you my reason my judgment tells me that you would be on am idea ideal mate I 1 shall bo be proud of you and I 1 will try to make you proud of me I 1 will gratify your desires in every way that my means will permit I 1 pledge you my illy fidelity in return for yours 1 I 1 I zen will III you say any besl yes can cori you believe that there Is to in my simple words more a sincerity Inc erity than there could be in uny tiny mad ravines ravings about love you art are oung zen younger than 1 I but you must nave have observed some things on out of them Is in that marriage founded on mutual respect which increases with the years Is a much safer and wiser business than marriage founded on a passion which aich quickly burns bums itself out and leaves the victims cold spon give with fill nothing in common you may not feel that you know me well vell enough for a decision I 1 will ghe you every opportunity to know me ine better 1 I will do nothing noth liiK to deceive you I 1 will put iw no neer I 1 will let you know me tile us I 1 rv reull urn um will you ray say yell eat lie ile bad had left his him pat seat and approached her he was leaning close over her chair while bla bin words had suggested marriage marring on a purely intellectual be ba ais he did not hesitate to brine bring hie his physical presence into the scale lie he was accustomed to having hie his way h he had always had it never did he want it more than he did now and although he had made hie his plea from the intellectual angle be wee was are sure he was very very ure sure there was more than that thie this girl whose whoso very presence delighted him intoxicated him hini would have made him mad will vill you say yes year he repeated and hie his hande hands found here and drew her with hie his front great strength up from her chair she did not resist hut but when she he was wo on her foot feet aho she avoided hie bin embrace embr you must not hurry me she whispered 1 I munt have time to think I 1 did not realize what you were saying until say yen now he urged branley Tr naley wits a man very hard to resist she felt an though ahe she were in the grip of a powerful machine it wo won as though she he were being inept along by a stream against which her feeble strength aas as as am nothing zen was as an nearly frightened aa an ehe she ever had been in her vigorous young life and yet there wax wa something delightful it would have bea been ao so easy to surrender it wax was so to hard to resist say yes now he ht repeated drawing her close at last and breathing the question into her ear you shall have time to think you shall ask your own geurt and if it it does not confirm your worde words you will be released from your promise prom tee they heard the footsteps of her father approaching and ensley Tr wait ed no longer for an answer he be turned her face to his him ho he pressed wa lips against here hers CHAPTER VIII vill zen thought over the events of that evening until they became a blur blar in her memory her ller principal recollection woe was that he she had been quite wept swept off her feet Tra naley bad interpreted her submission as assents and ehe she had not corrected him in the vital moment when they stood before her father that night in the deep shadow of the veranda YD Tra neley had find eald said your coubert conf tent and your blessin blessingto gt zen and I 1 are to be married as coon as ahe she con can be ready that was the moment at which ehe she should have spoken but ahe she did not she who had prided herself that she would make a race of it she abe who had always been able to slip out of a predicament in tho the nick of time stood tood mutely by and let Tra neley and her father interpret her silence as consent she was not ure sure that she was sorry she was not sure but she would have consented anyway but Tra naley had taken the matter quite out of her bands hands and yet she could not bring herself to feel resentment toward him that was the strangest part of it IL it seemed that she had come un der his domination that she even had to think as he would have her think in the darkness she could not see her fu face for which she wait sorry and he could not see hers aorl for which she was an glad there wits a long moment of or tense silence before she heard him say well axell hlll I 1 I 1 had a hunch it mittit come to but wit i 1 rt lellon you youngsters youn giten would work BO so faitt aits busts u a stake worth feet fast for une say jaylne iniz an ho lie hook shook Y D de a hand 1 I A trade places with any anun alive and ann wee was ure sure he maunt exactly what he aid said she a good girl girt Tron iiley her father commented a bod good girl e eat ven if it a bit at times khee fot got spirit Tra neley an have to handle her with sense sheff she a a thoroughbred YD had reached his arms toward hie his daughter and at theeo thew wonie words ho he closed them about her zen had bad never known her miller to bo be vino emo clonel ho had knew n him to anee mat ten turn of life and death without the quiver of an eyelid eyell cl but as n ho lie held her there la in his arms that night ehe she felt hie his big frame tremble suddenly she he had a powerful desire to cry she broke from his embrace and ran upstairs to her room when abo she came down her father and mother and Tra naley 1 ere sitting about the table in the living room the room hung with trophies ophice tr of tho caaso and ol 01 compo competition tillon the room which bad been the nucleus of the YD ee es tete thero there wae won a colored cover on the table and the shaded oil lamp in the center sent a it comfortable glow of light downward and about tho the jonm moth of the three people foil fell on the log walls darting silently from position to position ith their berer movement her mother arose as no aa zon n entered the room and took her linnas in a warm tender grip grin rv leaving tin uk klie be said tm im not saing I 1 object I 1 think mr Tra naley will mabb you a food good hue hump band lie ile in a man of energy like your father ile will do well you will not know the that WO knew in ear our early married life their eyes ye met and there was a moments moi neute pa geue use you will not understand for many year years what this means to me ins zenith her mother aid said and turned quickly to her place at the table she could not remember what they had talked about after that she had been conscious cone cloua of Tm Tran nley eye eyes often on her and of a certain spiritual ex al tation within her slie she could not remember what aha she had aid said but she he knew abo she had talked with unusual vivacity and charm it wai wits as a though certain storehouses of brilliance in her being of which ibe be had been unaware had been suddenly opened to her bar it was as though ahe she hod had been intoxicated by a very subtle wine which did not deaden but rather QuIck quickened enad all har to be continued next wook week |