Arizona republican., 1918-08-25
THE MARTIAL ADVENTURES OF
 HENRY AND ME
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 pred; he was that puzzled. Inn moi qulte the type of working girl whom Heaven protects and he classes. but -l mean l think he is wondering just now lar Heaven really will protect my Kind. When he decides," she confided In final burst of laughter, and tuck ing away her overflowing red hair I may have to slap him-I mean don't you know"
 Betting on Cupid
 And we did know. And being in his late forties Henry began, tantalizing me with odds on the Gilded Youth lie certainly was a beautiful boy-tall. chestnut hair, clean cut and. altogether charming. He played Brahms and IT, Vlng with equal grace on the piano in the women's lounge on the ship and an amazing game of stud poker with the San Francisco boys in the smoking room. And it was clear that he re- garded the Eager Soul as a social ad- venture somewhat higher than his mothers social secretary-buts of the same class He was returning from a turlough, to drive his ambulance in France, and the Doctor was going out to join his unie somewhere in France down near the Joan of Arc country He told us shyly one day, as we watched the wake of the ship together, that he was to be stationed at an old chateau upon whose front is carved in stone. T serve because 1 am served." When he did not repeat the motto we knew that it had caught him. He had been at home working on germ prob lem connected with army life. hardly tn hn ant in ha Df Mrs. Boffin, and he was forever casual ly discussing his difficulties with the Eager Soul and stenographer, who came upon the two at their tete-a-tete one day, ran to the girls in the lounge and gasped. My Lord. Net, if you'd a heard it, you'd a jumped off the boat"
 AS the passenger list began to re- solve itself into familiar faces and figures and friends we became grad ually aware of pair of eyes-a pair of snappy black. female, French eyes A)ealing broadly and allowing for certain Emporia and Wichita excep- tions, ever were no treat to us. Yet we fell to talking blithely of those eyes. Henry said if he had to douse his cigar on deck at night, the captain should make the Princess wear dinners at night or stay indoors. We were not always sure she was a Princess. At times she seemed more like a Duchess or a Countess. according to her clothes. We never had seen such clothes. And millinery, We were used to Broad way; Michigan Avenue did not make us shy, and Henry had been in the south. But these clothes and the hats and the eyes-all full dress-were toe many for us. And we fell to specu- lating upon exactly what would happen on Main Street and Commercial Street in Wichita and Emporia if tho Duchess could sail down there in full regalia.> Henry's place. at table was where he got the full voltage of the eyes every time the Princess switched | them on. And whenever he reached for the water and gulped it down. one could know he had been jolted behind his ordinary resisting power. And he drank enough to float a ship. As We \ wended our weary way over the decks \ during the long lonely hours of the voyage, we fell to theorizing about those eyes and we concluded that the.