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Show j sieaMMBaisaiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaj SA PHOTO PROPOSAL!: 5 - ' 5 aa By'E. COLSON. kg WhaBsjaaaassiaaBaaaaaBaaaV (Copyright, till, Wwurn Kiwtysptr, Union.) Old Mr.iBreWer bdleved'hlBMelfJte be acting In a manner more broad and liberal-minded Indeed whea he told Philip Malntenon that he might call on hls daughter Gertrude si often as ho liked, provided 'he spoke or wrote no word' of lore to the young woman. This embargo was to 'hut until Otf trade,, who had Just passed, her eighteenth eight-eenth birthday, waa,,tweaty,t vUry ,; It was dellfhtfti('to.see' Gertrude aa often as he.llked,; certainly, .especially aft.er the long weeks lis whjch, ha had 'wondered how 'much 'longer newowd be considered svwotcbae guest at' tho Brewer maasiotv bat ho soon found 'that the permission tto see her often meant far less than It had appeared Jo do at first sight He was not the only young ,mhn who saw her frequently, to begin with. Gertrude was a 'pretty girl, bright and popular In the bargain ; Philip began to live In a chronic state of fear lest some other fellow, wise enough to speak to, tho. girl first, aad then tho fatherafterward, should step. In ahead of1 him. The girl herself did not seem, to his excited fancyi to'Uk'e nearly, so muchInterest JalbJr.'attM' tlons as she bad done heretofore. Sometimes he was on the point ot throwing ap jthe whole thing for a year or two and going West' All of which was precisely what MriC Brewer Brew-er had counted upon when she had consulted con-sulted her husband to make terms. After a time, however, Philip became be-came so deadly tired of waiting that he gavo up the Idea of going West and, decided tochnngo his tactics entirely. He had promised to write or spenk no word of love to Gertrude, certainly, but proposing had never been mentioned. men-tioned. Surely lt-wns possible to make n proposal of marriage without ottering otter-ing love-sick speeches I Yes, he would certainly propose, and that as soon ns the opportunity offered. But the opportunity wal long In coming. com-ing. Mrs. Brewer hnd a "nose for news" which would have made the fortune for-tune of a metropolitan newspaper reporter, re-porter, and while she did not exactly suspect Philip of endeavoring to break his compact, so she gave her husband to understand, still she meant him to' have no temptation of that order. Never Nev-er a moment alone with Gertrude could be find or obtain. Even when, they went upon photographing .expeditions .expedi-tions together both being enthusiastic enthusias-tic photographic amateurs they were Invariably accompanied by Gertrude's brother Benjamin, a spoiled youth of fourteen, his mother's darliag, and also badly aJHcted with tho picture-taking picture-taking erase. And yet it was through a photographic process 'that Philip finally carried oat aw will la regard to his Inamorata aaA ctrcamveatsdjaot mother's care. -j,V. t 4 The bright tdeacevrred to Mm oao Sunday afteraooBvas he worked over his newest lens, and he lost no time In trying t Carefully printing a certain legend upon a transparent white paper, pa-per, he pinned the paper ap against tho windowpane and went over it again mora boldly and on the wrong side, with a charcoal crayon. Then ho attached the paper, still wrong side outward, to the wall and photographed photo-graphed the legend backward. 'This he did because characters" ot this kind photographed 1n the ordinary way, are always reversed In 'the negative.' It la only la' the printing that matters become be-come straight agalaand It was la the negative that Philip was partlca-IarJrlatresteL, partlca-IarJrlatresteL, f :.He. oarrled it wlHhlm whea ho called, upon' Gertrude,, the following 'evening, Gertrude ran upstairs to her owa little darkroom to develop' tho plate Immediately: PhIIIpThad explained ex-plained that be thought sho wosad understand un-derstand the aw experiment ho wanted want-ed to share with her , more clearly tf sho developed tho aegatlvo. ?" V "Metrol-hydrol I suggest as a devol-oper,"jPhlllp devol-oper,"jPhlllp had i told her as she ran upstairs with tho plate-bolder containing contain-ing tho experimental" negative, and, this; agent she had accordingly prepared.; pre-pared.; She rocked the little tray back aadjterthtfor two or three mlnutei thea exposed It to the rays of the,red lamp. And this was the message; J 1 "My, dearest girl: .Will yoa marry me? Philip Malntenon.", . ,t ' Tho girl grew; white aad pink' as she read It Then she laughed merrily and sat down to consider. Ten, minutes later she'went down to the parlor and explained that she had broken the pro-dons pro-dons negative. ? " .' Philip colored hotly, and Mrs. Brewer, Brew-er, pitying his fancied disappointment 'over the lost negative, took Gertrude gentlyitotask. 1 don't see how you could be so careless, my daughter," she remonstrated. remonstrat-ed. ".Nobody, knows how, much .trouble Mr, Malntenon may have taken to secure se-cure the negative- you have destroyed. 'Cant you make It ap to him In some "V"1 J . - - ' "I dent knowmamsfe," answered .Gertrude, smiling aad -Mushing adorably ador-ably aa she turned her face away from her mother -aad toward .PhWa. i"I doat-haow. LahoaMat ears to" repeat the experiment myself, even It I knew how to do so, which I do not But wo might possibly present hlm'wltlf some other, work of art, It yoa think best Suppose we try" - A sudden thought made her cheeks hura yet more brilliantly, and she took from the mantel a ma,ll plaster figure of the conventionalised "Chicago," and offered It to Philip. And whether by accident or dlgn, again It would be difficult to say her small forefinger pointed to the Inscriptions "I will I" Xt'f " " - " i)i , ll ' . '-'. i . . t s . t ,JM,WWI "' " 'I.'' i'i"K 1w .ii,i.i 1 ' .,1 1 1x1 |