The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-23
15 Words 15c Farmer Classified Ads Phone 1908

both knew it. He seized her. There was no will or thought about tt-hc just took her in his arms, and she clung to him, and whel he kissed her wildly. passionately, she offerel her.lips again. "Beatrice!" he cried in wonder her name over and over: then at q sound over the pasture both rc.-:e to thom- selves She prsllc1 from him, and h. let her go. They knelt side l)y side and crouchcd on the grass; her fingers found his, but it was to give him Q pistol now.
 An aeroplnne landed nearby and an officer dispatched his pilot on some errand while he himself tinkered with the engine.
 Beatrice whispered, scarcely audibly. into Jim's ear; she needed few words to make him understand. This pas ture was the usual place where ma chimes in trouble descended-that was why she had chosen it. Sometimes several machines alighted tsorc during an evening. Beatrice was not an ex- pert, but shc could make a machine fly: the chGnce before them was as good as4any which might offer.
 It was even better Q minute late: when the officer started the motor. Il was no trick at all for man to stalk an enemy deafened by those motor e. plosions. Jim might have shot hi.r without raising an alarm; but, thoue, the stalker was just from priGcn, blow with pistol butt was quito enough. The officer tumbled and lai quite limp. Jim, at Beatrice's dircc- tion, got into. a scat; she took the .pi- lots seat. behind him. ,The motor was still running; shc sI.eeled it up and the plane began to rise. I%
 He leaned back close to Beatrice. "Where are we going?' he shouted.
 ITO our lines if we can get there. The, regents going to- make another drive; there's going to be the biggest battle yet to make us make peaee:'' ; ;"
 Tive got a cart for your mother, Nellie,v said Nathan, A1hby. .''It can take you and little Bob )3."f
 Nellie shook -her head. "Mother can't be moved, father" M
 "She mnst be! Nellie, they'll be here tomorrow! Our men ara roing toburn Chicago tonight and then give it up They're destroying the grain elevators today, hear. The fighting will be be yond' c Clica go, tomorrow night" E "Mother cannot stand being moved ek al 4o k~ | I,- end of the world in an open cart! I, , and then, though he knew it nneanr darkness for him forever, he took ths black cloth from about his head, and where he was men fought as nowhere else. They stood and fought back foul times there number til the general of the brigade sent word that the troops whose retreat they protected were well away and the battalion was te withdraw as it could.
 Late that afternoon as Nellie Wen dell looked out from the cellar where she was hidden with her mother and her son she saw a soldier in different uniform from the rect sink. down by the side of the foad. There were shells breaking over the road, but Nellie for got them as she saw the man on the grass try to get up. She ran out and caught him in her arms. ,"Bob-' She kissed him. Bob, it's Nellie! Bob, look-look at meT' sht begged.
 He raised his eyes, and then she knew. She cried out and .hugged hin to her.
 Little wife, little wife," he said tt her over and over again. Nellie, lit tie wife, the baby-it was born?" "A boy, Bob, a boy-oh, just like yot your ason!"
 "A boy! My son! Where is he I'm-I'm not only just blind I've beer
 hurt, think. But you mustn't sta.
 here. For his sake go, Nellie, gQr' | "Gor she cried and hugged to hin "Go from you now?"
 A shell burst beside them, and tn,
 enemy.s soldiers half an hour late ! H M =