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Show AN EARLY TEST. It wns closo to midnight, nnd although al-though Bho hnd yawned a dozen times during the past half hour, ho stayed on nnd tried to get up enough ncrvo to test his fate. As tho clock struck 12 ho took a long breath nnd renchod for her hand and said: "Miss Bluntly Maude ever slnco I met you at tho picnic last summer I havo been madly In lovo with you." "Is that so?" she replied, stifling a yawn nnd looking anxiously at the clock. "Yes, Maudo. Will you marry mo? Say that you'll bo mlno and mako mo tho happiest man In tho world." "Why or wo haven't known each other vory long," sho said, ns sho continued con-tinued to watch tho clock. "Long enough for mo to know that you aro tho only girl I could over love. Say tho word nnd I'll do anything anything you may ask." "You will?" asked tho girl, beginning begin-ning to show somo Interest In tho matter mat-ter for tho first time. "I will, Maude." "Anything I may ask?" "Anything, no matter what. I'd leap Into a den of Hons for you; I'd throw myself Into tho raging sea, or leap from a balloon wcro you to ask It. Will you put mo to tho tost, dear?" "Yes, Harold," sho said, as sho returned re-turned tho prcssuro of his hand and uttered a deep sigh of relief. "I prom-lso prom-lso to ho yours, and now pleaso get your hat and mako tracks for homo. I've got to got up at flvo o'clock tomorrow to-morrow morning nnd holp mother with the ironing. A. 11. IxjwIb, in Judge |