Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-19
The Daily Story
Missing-By z. A. Mitchell.
Copyrighted. i7r4 Associated Literary r,urear

working with her bands wbna :
thoughts were with The 49,. y
slaughter going on in France S ~.
thus occupied the butler enteraa - 4's
the morning mail. Including na.. ~'''
peTs from London. "spa
The lady seized both and c,..
hastily at the superscriptjon ~
tiers. tossed them on a table ,ns e 'e'
on the covering OF one OF the Da.- 'oFe
pers. Turning over the naea. va
me TO one, every column =, r s1e
was hIied with names. With VIA
beating heart she ran her eve ~
the column TIL she came TO = ~. sn
DER the caption of "-tb in-.,.- 4a-
Among the officers reported 49,
she saw the name OF Trelaynev
While to learn that q soldia.
missing left room for a ray q, -.
the inference was that he haa ~
buried or burned as unknown
Treiawney had read of the agb, A.
Ing which her husband bad a..
peared. but had not learned fb.,
oners were taken on either s,de u
with the list of casualties befo,a ~.
she knew that there were mapv eh.-
that her husband had been L,nss
and his body had received M No.
individual treatment than q snse, !.
wheat cut down.
! A month passed, when one IA,
! card was banded to Mrs. Trela NV,
bearing the name Of Edgar Furn,s.
royal navy. A young man was -
eeived breathlessly. He told the via.
| ow that be had seen Der husband Soaa
or dying, that a detachment approacb'
ed for burial purposes and Red Cross
workers at the same time. IL Trelsv
ney had not died he would have has,
taken in by the Red Cross men. Bav.
ing destroyed all hope, the sailor p,vs
the widow her husbands dying mes.
sage, intimating that she should tsks
another husband IL there was any man
who would make her happy.
Trelawney when the burial ana the
rescue parties came along was left by
the latter for dead, and before there
was time for the former to attend 10
him the truce ended. He lay wherp
he was till midnight, when the spirit
of evil again swept the field on which
he lay under the direction of powerful
searchlights. This time the Germans
held the field long enough to take in
the wounded, and Trelawney, whom
a surgeon pronounced to be still alive,
was removed to the rear.
The record of the next few weeks
in the officers case was, except for
frequent removals, one continuous dull
life in hospitals, during which be was
slowly recovering from his wound
Long before he was supposed TO be
well enough to be transferred to q con.
centration camp for prisoners of war.
tired of the life he led, one evening
under cover of the darkness he walked
away.
A few days later Trelawney reach
ed England. but there was little like
Iibood of his being recognized. for be
was the shadow of his former self.
His hair had considerably whitened,
and a long beard had grown on bis for
merly clean shayen face. Clad in khaki
he appeared in the region Of bis for
mer home as an invalid soldier on
leave recovering from wounds. No
one guessed that he was the young
soldier who had so proudly marched
away some months before.
Supported by stout cane. be was
walking along a road leading toward
Hor xT-hn
drive by in a dogcart but the man
whom he had been told his wife had
formerly refused TO marry, and ire
Iawney saw the vehicle stop before tne
loor where his wife was living.
The soldier had come home incosnito
70 prove the truth or falsity or wnat
lad been told him before going TO tne
war On seeing what he consioereo
.onfirma ton of the story he pauseu
Should he go away and continue deao
o the world. leaving the woman ne
owed to be happy with the man WV
ould best make her happy!
A man came trudging along the rose
whom Trela whey recognized as an o'u
enant OF his fathers. But the "ah
lid not recognize Trelawney. VINO en-
cred into conversation With MIN. lie
awney leading him to SPEAK u TUG
ubject nearest his heart.
They say" said the soldier tla'
be young widow who lived down lne
DAD and who lost her husband I'd luz
var in France Is going TO take ANU"
r husband"
who says that?" asked the man
ristlinS.
Isn't IL true2" -
''True: There's a man been u',.e
, GET her. and be tried 10 get her oe
IRE she was married. But she ne
i'll marry, because her heart Is VIZ
he soldier who was killed In rtane.
he has put up a beadstone on "s
rounds with the word Unknown
She keeps il covered with no"e's
When Trelawney waIked on ne SUI
D straighter and made his way W"
SIS difficulty than before The ~.
" be sought the place whe's ."a
,adstone 70 his memory stoou W"
ere his wife. seeing an Invalid %
came out 10 talk To MIN She 'oV
10 his face and despite MS a'e
,pearance knew him at once ,,s
I Lieutenant Treiawney Is now oein-
irsed back to rugged nealtn oy