The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-22
SYNOPSIS.

oo07z3ht, 1919. By The 1scsula1 Company.
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER 1-Georgy wagstan. daust,.
ter Of Sir George. Of the British admir-.
atty, hints at a liaison between her gov.
s STRESS; Ethel l,n Wil ae1faa y and Henry
CHAPTER 11-Henry Streetman calls
on Ethel and while waiting for her talks
70 Brewster, SIR Georges butler. who Is q
German spy, about his failure to get az
admiralty papers in Sir Georges posses
sion. He phones to German secret sery-
CHAPTER Iu-When Ethel appears
10 tries to force her to set from Str
g }p. R kngTle dge. Of Tt II. sailing I'm order.
him a French instead OF a German spy.
she refuses until he threatens her She
riage. as Georgy is suspicious, bvt ne puts
her off.
,o GaAe g1;E ra 1y : te a., oeoE ~ n = her
and Streetman makes an awkward At
tempt to talk politica
CHAPTER V-Charlie Brown. newspa,
pr man Of New York. e%ntertains the tea
party with his views on the threatened
war In Europe.
CHAPTER V1--Guy Falconer declares
that If war comes he will go to Cuba. His
mother and Sir George reprove him.
Charlie says Guy Is spoot1ng.
CHAPTER v11-Capt. Larry Redmond
OF the irish Guards. calls on Ethel. The
he asks her to marry. him. She still loves
him. but tells him she Is married.
CHAPTER v1II-Ethel fnds that Larry
KNOWS Str9QtmQn RQ a (TaYmQn GnV and
that Streetman had a wife in Berlin when
he married her. The others come in and
that Germany has declared war on Rus
eia.
from him. "7Twas his 1ob-an1 Tor 8
stranger he'd been mighty kind to me
he and his wife"
That last word struck her cold.
what did you say" she asked him
very slowly.
"Why, that he and his wife had beer
mighty kind to me-"
You're quite sure he was married?'
she inquired in a manner that was
strangely deliberate. Aghast az she
was at the thought Of Henry Street
mans duplicity, at his villainy in sub
jecting her to a marriage that seemed
no marriage at all, a certain calm sat
Sfaction came over her. in spite of
her shame She was glad beyond words
That h was not tied to him for life
If what she now tried to believe were
only true!
"Married?' Larry repeated. "Oh,
I'm quite sure. His Wife was a typical
moonfaced German hausfrau, with two
:hildren-bonny little Riddles. I used
to romp EN-"
ooh, my God! My Godw Ethel
cried suddenly.
My dear-what Is it? What is it?"
Larry exclaimed. He saw that she was
IN agony. And he went to her as he
might have hurried to any futtering
bird with a broken wing.
"Oh, It's Notwithstanding"
she told him with a dry sob.
Il should have gone away; or
having gone, l should never have come
back-to make you suffer like this" be-
said with bitter self-reproach. It hurt
him terribly to see her so torn by her
emotions. There, there, my DEAR,
Don't cry" he said, patting her arm
with the tenderness Of a
"Oh, let me! Let me-" Ethel cried.
for the blessed vent Of tears had come
to her at last. "Oh, Larry. why
couldn't it have been direrent?"
Faith, I don't know, my dear! But
now with you and me it's only a dream
of what might have been-and we
must forget" he comforted her
bravely.
"Forget" she repeated brokenly.
"Well, we must try to-" he said.
I'VE must be fr1ends-the best friends
in the world"
I'VE can't be just-friends," she told !
him. She knew that their deep love
for each other would never let them he
merely that. {
W. must be-" he persisted with the
conviction Of a man who would always
do right. I'VE love each other too
much to be more-or less-than the
best of friends"
From the hall outside, voices came
to their ears. And Ethel had scarcely
dried her tears before their friends
had returned to claim them for the din.
ner party.
Great Scott" Guy Falconer ex.
claimed as he came upon them. "still
Ginning, you two? You never talk to
me as long as that! he told Georgy
Wagsta6 with mild reproach.
You're not so interesting as Cap.
tain Redmond" she retorted with the
:TQelty Of insolept eighteen. '