Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-11-15
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of Christine's husband getting an apes
tie spoon"
She smiled up ut him. 'You ars
looking very grand today. Hut You
have grass strains on your white trou'
sers. Perhaps Katie can take them
out"
Quite. suddenly X. felt that she
thought him too old for such friyolity
of dress. It put him ON HIS mettle,
"How old do you think ! nm, Miss
SidneyT
mot over forty. I'm sure"
"I'm almost thirty. II In middle age.
Of course, built IL not scnility."
Clearly the subject OF his years did
not interest her vitality, for she hnrkcd
back to the grass stains.
"Fm afraid you're not saving. M you
promised. Those are new clothes, aren't
they2"
mo, indeed. Bought years ago In
England-the coat In London. the
trousers In Bath, on motor tour. Cost
something like twelve shilllngs. Awful
ly cheap. They wear them for cricket"
That was wrong move, Of course.
Sidney must hear about England; and
she marveled politely, In view Of his
poverty, about his being there. Poor
LIE MOyne fOundered In sea Of men,
daclty, rose to truth here and there,
clutched at luncheon, and achieved
safety at last.
ITO think" said Sidney, shat you
have really been across the ocean! l
never knew but one person who had
been abroad. 1t is DIR. Max Wilson,"
Back again IA Doctor Max! lie
Moyne, unpacking sandwiches from
basket, was aroused by sheer resent
ment to indlscretlon.
"You like this Wilson chap pretty
well, don't your
"What do you mean?"
"You talk about him rather lot"
This was sheer recklessness, Of
course. He expected fury, humiliation.
He did not look up, but busted him
self with the luncheon. When the ST.
lence grew oppressive, he ventured to
glance toward her. She was leaning
forward, her chin cupped in her palms,
staring out over the valley that
stretched at their feet.
"Don't speak to me for minute or
two" she said. I'm thinking over
what you have just said"
Down through the valley ran shall
low river, making noisy pretensions to
both depth and fury. He remembered
just such river In the Tyrol, with this
same Wilson on rock. holding the
hand Of n pretty Austrian girl, while
he snapped the shutter of camera.
He had that picture somewhere now !;
but the girl was dead, and, Of the
three, Wilson was the only one who
had met life and vanquished 1t.
"Tvs known him all my life" Sid
ney said ut last. "You're perfectly
right about one thing: l talk about
him and think about him. I'm being
candid, because what's the use of be-
Ing friends II we're not frank? I ad-
mlre him-you'd have to see him In the
hospital, with everyone deferring to
him and all that, to understand. And
when you think Of a man like that,
who holds life and death In his hands,
OF course you rather thrill. IL hon.
estly believe that's all there is to It."
"If that's the whole thing, that's
hardly a mad passion" He tried to
smile; succeeded family.
"Well, Of course, there's this, too.
know he'll never look at me. I'll be
one Of forty nurses; indeed, for three
months I'll be only probatloner. He'll
probably never even remember I'm In
the hospital ut all"
II see. Then. II you thought he was
In love with you, things would be DIFF.
ferentT
III thought DIR. Max Wilson was 10
love with me-" said Sidney solemnly
I'D go out Of my head with JOY"
To hide the shock with which he
realized that she was, unknown to her
self, already In the throes OF roman
tic attachment for Wilson, X. suggest
ed descent to the river. She accept
! cd eagerly, and he helped her down
/ That was another memory that out
a lasted the day-her small warm hand
, In his; the time she slipped and h,
, caught her; the pain In her eyes al
one OF his thoughtless remarks.
I'm going TO be pretty lonely" h,
said, when she had paused In the de
scent and was taking n stone out OF hel
+ low shoe. 81 shall hate TO come HON,
| ut night" And then. seeing her vince
Q "rve been whining all day. Fol
; heavens sake. don't look like that. i
a there's one sort OF man dctcst NOR,
than another, it's man who Is sorr!
for himself. DO you suppose you
mother would object II we stayed gu
|. here at the hotel for support I've or
dered moon, orange yellow and extri
size"
II should hate TO have anything or
=, dcred and wasted"
II "Thcn wen stay"
II ITS fcarfully extravagant."
II an be thrifty as TO moons while 20,
are In the hospital"
III So II was settled. And, us II hap
pensd, Sidney had to stay, anyhow
III For. having perched herself out In IN