South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-03
HOW HARRY'S WHAT YOU ALL
NEED Is SOMETHING TO STIR
YOU up WAS ANSWERED.

grew worse after she had released
me from my premise 10 stay with
her until her death.
From the moment when DR.. Petit
uncovered the sham OF the delirium
she was affecting in order 70 make
me believe Dicky was false TO me,
she sank rapidly into real uncon-
sciousness. real delirium.
The fight for her life was a bitter
and prolonged one Authorized by
Dicky, DR.. Petit secured a second
nurse so that the girl was watched
night and day by the best skill OBJ
tainable.
But l had no personal knowledge
of the desperate struggle that was
being waged for the girls life. Back
in Marvin. under Lillian's kindly
ministrations. my nerves. we'll nigh
shattered by the narrowing expert
ences 1 had gone through. were
slowly being healed.
When we found that the fight for
Grace Diapers life was TO be a long
and grim one, Lillian decided that it
would be best for Dicky and me 20
return 20 the old Brennan house at
Marvin. She also arranged that
she and Harry should accompany US
there, leaving her cOlored maid.
Betty. TO wait upon the two nurses
and the sick girl
I'm not even asking IL you want
me-" she said, with the lovable i'm
periousness that is so characteristic
OF her, for / know you need me.
You're not Mt TO stay by yourself.
for you've been through too much.
And besides there'll be less chance
for the neighbors to talk IL we're
all here as we were before"
How Defenses Were Built.
The gossip of the Marvin neigh
bors was the thing we feared most.
To prevent il we had taken every
precaution. When I say I'VE"
mean Lillian. From the moment
when she had sent for the Crest
haven taxi TO come for us in the
place Of the lone machine from Mar
vim 20 the moment when she and I
came back TO the Marvin house
chatting as if nothing had happened,
her vigilance had never faltered.
II was she who had sent Katie
back the next morning after the &C
cident with instructions TO open the
house as if nothing had happened,
and say TO any one who inquired
about us that Dicky and I and the
Underwoods had gone for a short
trip together.
From that day until the day Lii
liam and I returned. Katie had come
out 10 Marvin from the city early
each morning. stayed during the day
10 give the house a semblance of
occupation, and returned 10 the city
each evening, where she had slept
at the home of her cousin, her only
relative in the city.
Lillian had also persuaded Grace
Diapers sister, Mrs. German, to re-
turn TO her home. II was not hard
10 induce the poor woman to do 80.
for she was almost useless in the
sick room and was sorely needed in
her own home. Lillian cautioned
her 10 be sure TO say that her sister,
Miss Draper, had been called away
to the home Of the sick relative
whom she had visited earlier in the
sEnmer.
Thus. with all our defenses forth
fed, we came back TO Marvin.
you've Got Your WISH"
Dicky's arm was completely heal
ed and no one seeing him swinging
homeward along the country road
with Harry Underwood would have
dreamed that between the time of
his home coming and the hour when
he last traversed that road toward
the city lay a whole volume of ter
ror and tragedy.
But all our pretense of gayety
dropped from US when we were
finally gathered within the friendly
shelter OF our home. All through
the DAYS which we spent together
the shadow of the horror we had
been through lowered over us.
Constantly before my eyes was the
I image Of Grace Draper as l had last
seen her. wounded. almost dying,
Yet summoning all the strength she
had i'm one last attempt 10 poison
my belief in Dicky. She had said
that never would I be able TO tell
how much was false and how much
true of her pretended rawlings. Be
fore she had said that | had felt my
cup full TO overlooking. But even in
our most intimate moments since
then the doubt she had planted in
my mind would raise its head like a
serpent and instill its venom into
my happiness.
7 struggled hard TO keep Dicky
from discovering my feelings.
had not told him Of the girls pre-
tended delirium and the things she
had said 1 was not sure, however.
that he did not know it. II Lillian
thought he ought to know il she was
perfectly capable of telling him, but
I shrank from mentioning in any
way the name OF the girl who had
wrought such evil 10 me and mine.
Lillian and Harry tried their best
10 act as II nothing untoward had
happened. but il was a difficult task
they set themselves.
Harry Underwood voiced the gen
eral feeling one night at dinner.
"Of all the funerals I ever at
tended this is about the limit" he
said, glancing around the little table.