The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-05
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Memory Reveals to Madge Captain
Gfantland's Story.
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Memory Reveals to Madge Captain
Grsntlands Story.
7 BELIEVE my experience. a, the inn.
| nv wound and my resultant stay in
= the hospital must have temporarily
affected the powers OF memory upon
which I've always prided myself-aI.
ference to the Spanish government, says
though indeed no iot OF credit should
belong TO me; all should be given 10
my little mothers training For had /
been in ordinary fettle the name. Hugh
Grantland, would have recalled to my
mind the history Of the man as it had
been blazoned to the world through the
columns OF the Sunday newspapers
Hugh Grantland, millionaire. holding
a high position in ,,..,.. .ltsies. had
in the beginning OF the world war.
thrown aside his position and response
bilities as IL they were so many glass
baubles and had gone to France. there
to enlist in the Foreign Legion Tale,
Of his bravery had come back by the
dozen. He had won the Crox de
Guerre and every other decoration
worth having; he had been wounded
more than once he had had more hair
breadth escapes than any Of his com
rades. hich was a marvellous distinc-
tion Of itself in that company OF dare.
devils
And through Il all he had preserved
the reticence the alofness WHICH had
always made him an object OF interest
ing speculation TO the public served by
the journalists, many OF whom turned
thrifty penny in accounts, partly truth
partly guess work. OF his career before
and since his entrance into the army
Missing Years
For there had been a number Of miss
ing years in Hugh Grantland's life,
years in which he had been lost to the
cultured and wealthy circles OF society
into which he had been born. He
had been expelled from his college for
some escapade about which there had
been DARK whispers, always cautiously
revived in cleverly veiled allusion
wherever an account OF him appeared
And Immediately afterward he had dis
appeared. shipped off by his father"
the wiseacreS said
From that time until a quiet youth
bearingthis name began work as an or
dinary laborer upon a small southern
railroad nothing had been heard of him
His mother had died OF broken heart
his father. implacable, never allowed his
name TO be spoken even after the sons
phenomenal rise from his iowly posi-
tion TO that OF one of the highest places
in the gift OF large railroad A sec
ond wife reigned in the mansion the
boy had called home-I knew now the
reason for the bitterness in Hugh
Grantlaud's voice when he had spoken
OF the poor devils with no home TO
speak of"
There had been much speculation
concerning the missing years. but no
one had ever known the truth concern
ing them. From the time he left col
lcge to the time he began work as a
laborer he might as we'll have been
buried for any record concerning him
ever available to the inquisitive delivers
into his past
Embarrassing Siisnces.
No wonder the "other Mrs. Graham
had spoken OF him as THE Captain
Grantland" There were few other
personalities in the land which so ap.
healed to popular imagination as did
this mans.
"Well7"
The monosyllabIe. with the question
ing infection. brought me back with
a start from the realm Of reminiscent
conjecture in which I'd been wander
ing. | was glad the moonlight was so