Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-30
IN HER HERolNE's STEPS
IIctty Hcmcnway, Who Wrote War
Bride story, Marrics OFFICER.


Hetty Hemenway. pretty Boston So
ciety girl, entered the literary world
some months ago with -Four Days.
-Four Days is the story Of the war
marriage OF a girl and young Brit
fish officer. The story, because of its
intensity of feeling, created wide
spread favorable comment. The Sc
cret of how Miss Hemenway novice
with the pen, could so effectively de-
pict the emotions of a war bride is
out. The youthful author recently
became war bride herself.
Miss Hemenway now Mrs. Auguste
Richard, is the daughter of Augustus
Hemenway, Il wealthy Boston lawyer,
and her mother is the sister OF Bishop
Lawrence OF MaGsach usetts. AS a
member of the exclusive Vincent
club, composed OF !Joston society
girls, Miss Hemenway wrote not only
the book, but the choruses and lyrics
of Modern Pandora, musical
show given by the club in 1914. Sub
sCquently she wrote two short stories
which she timidly submitted to Mrs.
Margaret Deland, noted author, for
crit! cism.
Heroine a Fricad.
Mrs. Deland was charmed with the
stories and placed both with maya
zines of the highest literary stand
irg. -Four Days ran in the Atlantic
Monthly and recently was brought
out in book form by Little, Brown Ss
Co. of Boston.
In " Four Days one reads first of
the young officers return from the
front to his family and to the girl
who is jealous Of the time he must
give them. Then the marriage, the
honeymoon Of four days tinged with
sadness by the knowledge of the in
evitable separation TO come so soon.
and finally the parting.
The heroine of the story is really
one of Miss Hemenway's friends. q
widely known Boston society girl
who married an English officer. The
story ends with the leave-takinS Al
Victoria station, London, but the Sc
quel, were it 10 be written. would
who viii soon see service abroad. Her
HI sband is Lieutenant Richard of the
artillery. Lieutenant Richard is q
New Yorker, Harvard man, and was
in business in New York until the
United States entered the war, when
he Joined the army.
Something OF the sadness of war
honeymoons comes strikingly to the
reader of Miss Hemenway's book. But
perhaps II is the description of the
parting between the war bride and
her husband, a parting which may be
in store for the author, which strikes
the deepest chords of emotion. The
officer bridegroom Is leaving for the
Dardanelles:
"a thick yellow fog lay over Lon
don; at 5 O'Clock in the Victoria sta
tIon the dawn had not penetrated,
and the great globes of electricity in
the murky ceiling shed an uncertain
light. Thru the usual somDer and
preoccupied din of the early morning
traffic, came the steady. rhythmic
tread of marching feet. Lost in the
smoke and fog a band was playing
Rule Britannia
Brides Courage Fails.
Marjorie and Leonard We're stand
ing in the very center of the vast
dingy shed. Heavy eyed, they looked
about them with an unseeing, be-
wildered gaze that kept reverting to
! each other. Marjorie had both her
hands about one of Leonards' and
was holding it convulsRely in the
pocket of his great coat.
Marjorie shivered as n spasmodic
gasp ran thru the crowd; n sound
suddenly seemed to envelop her like
wave, breaking, gathering itself
then breaking again-just two words
Good by-good- -by-good-
"She looked into Leonard's face
and saw that the moment had ar
rived; he was going. She was
gripped with sense of suffocation
and panic. 1t was the same feeling
that she had experienced as a child
when she had gone in wading and
had slipped into the water over her
head. She clung to Leonard now
just as she had clung to her iescuer
then.
Don, gol Don't go! l can't bear
| it, q Leonard!
"Ifis hand, disengaging itself from