Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1915-03-26


a Red Cross man"
AT a country place in England
bride whose husband was lighting In
France sat trying to pass the hours
embroidering. She had tried reading.
but, though her eyes passed over the
words, her mind refused to receive
them She had therefore resorted to
working with her hands while her
thoughts were with the dreadful
slaughter going on In France While
thus occupied the butler entered with
the morning mail. including newspa.
pers from London
The lady seized both and, glancing
hastily ut the superscription Of the let
ters. tossed them on table. then tore
OF the covering OF one of the newspa-
pers Turning over the pages. she
came to one. every column Of which
was filed with names. With wildly
beating heart she ran her eye down
the column till she came to a list I'M
der the caption OF "-th infantry"
Among the officers reported missing
she saw the name OF Trelawney.
While to learn that a soldier was
missing left room for n ray Of hope,
the Inference was that he had been
buried or burned as unknown. Mrs.
Trelawney had read OF the 6ght dur.
ing which her husband had disap-
peared, but had not learned that pris-
oners were taken on either side. Now
with the list OF casualties before her
she knew that there were many chances
that her husband had been killed
and his body mad received no more
individual treatment than a spear of
wheat cut down.
A month passed, when one day a
card was handed to Mrs. Trela whey
bearing the name Of Edgar Furniss,
royal navy A young man was re-
ceived breathlessly He told the wild
ow that be had seen her husband dead
or dying. that detachment approach
ed foi burial purposes and Red Cross
workers at the same time, II Trelaw-
ney had not died he would have been
taken in by the Red Cross men. Hav-
ing destroyed all hope, the sailor gave
the widow her husbands dying mes
sage, intimating that she should take
another husband If there was any man
who would make her happy.
Trelawney when the burial and the
rescue parties came nlong was left by
the latter for dead. and before there
was time for the former to attend to
him the truce ended He lay where
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
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 he was
slowly recovering from his wound.
Long before he was supposed to be
well enough TO be transferred to con.
centration camp for prisoners OF war,
tired of the life he led. one evening
under cover of the darkness be walked
away
A few days later Treiawney reach
ed England. but there was little like
lihood OF his being recognized, for he
was the shadow OF his former self.
His hair had considerably whitened,
and long beard had grown on his for.
merly clean shaver face Clad In khaki
he appeared In the region Of his for
mer home rs an invalid soldier on
leave recovering from wounds No
one guessed that he was the young
soldier who had 80 proudly marched
away some months before.
Supported by stout cane. ne was
walking along Il road leading tOward
his former residence when who should
drive by In dogcart but the man
whom he had been told his wife had
formerly refused to marry, and IRE
lawney saw the vehicle stop before the
door where his wife was living.
The soldier had come home incognito
TO prove the truth or ralsity Ut what
had been told him before going to the
war On seeing what he considered a
confirmation of the story he paused.
Should be go away and continue dead
to the world, leaving the woman he
loved to be happy with the man who
could best make her happyf
A man came trudging along the road
whom Trela whey recognized as an old
tenant OF bis fathers But the man
did not recognize Trela whey, who en-.
tered into conversation with him. Ire
iawney leading him to speak OF the
subject nearest his heart.
"They shy" said the soldier. that
the young widow who lived down the
road and who los, her husband In the
war In France is going to take aDotb-
err husband"
"wbo says thatT asked the mnn.
bristling
Isn't II trueT
'Truef There's a man been trying
to get her. and he tried to get her be-
fore she was married but she never
will marry because her heart IL with
the soldier who was killed In France
She has put up n headstone on ner
grounds with the word Unknown on
IT, She Keeps It covered with towers"
When TreIawney walked on he stood
up straighter and made his way with
less difficulty than before. The next
day he sought the place where the
nendstone to his memory stood While
there his wife seeing an invalid near
IT, came onr 10 talk 10 him She looked
into his face ana despite MS altered
appearance knew MIN nj once.
Lieutenant TTelawney IL now Deing
nursed pacE TO rugged neaith by a lov,
suu ,rttFa