Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1920-05-20

won't nave YOU speaking TO me, she
blazed IF you don't 20 away | shall
call a policeman"
Two or three men in he crowd,
looking curiously at The pair as they
momentarily impeded the stream Of
sidewalk traffic, showed signs of stop
ping and taking In the show. In an
other moment there would be a crowd.
Edna's temper was at the point where
she would have welcomed it-and the
inevitable policeman. The young man
faced an emergency. But instead of
sinking of, he met 1t by Selling the
girls hand tucklng it under his elbow
and speaking very rapidly but dis
tlnctly into her ear: IF you're not
Edna Stearns, I'm In wrong; dead
wrong! IF you are, I'm in the biggest
luck of my life. Tn Bob Fellows p
"Oh. my goodness !" cried Edna.
Hurry! Let's get out of this, quick"
You see, along about the beginning
Of the war, when the boys were start
Ing overseas, the particular boy who
belonged to Edna's girl chum had
mentioned in a letter that his bunkie
had no sweater and no mother or sis
ter or sweetheart to make him one.
And the chum had read the letter to
Edna And Edna had knitted a
sweater and sent it to the buukie-
That's how ii started And through
the correspondence that followed Edna
and the soldier had become wonder
ful friends. Such fine, frank. manly
letters the boy had written; and
toward the last such intimate, hope
full ones, TINT seemed 10 take il for
granted that when the war was over
they were to be very, very dear
friends indeed. Then he had gone
across. Edna had one letter after that
telling that he had been sent to the
motor transport service, and then 81
lence Months later the name of Rob
ert Allison Fellows, degree undeter-
mined" appeared in the list of wound
ed. But Edna could learn nothing
more. Somehow she never believed
that the boy had died He had just
forgotten her, she sadly concluded,
over there In all that excitement and
stress. Perhaps that, together with
the fact that she did not get along
well with her stepmother, helped to
bring on the discomfort that brought
her 10 New York.
1t was over one of those belated -ea-
room lunches that with so many Rev
Workers serve for dinner that It all
came out.
Il had awful luck. Bob explained
FIRST thing my company's clerk made
a mistake in the transport unit | had
been sent TO, and / never got any mail
Aud the very first time | had to drive
mp to the linesoa high explosive shell
tore my truck to pieces and | went to
the hospital for two months You've
heard of she'll shock. Generally it's
fake. But besides my broken arm and
leg ! got dose of that fool thing.
The way II affected me | couldn't re-
member lots of things that I'd always
known. And one of the things was the
name of your town. l tried and tried,
but | couldn't And It never did come
back to me till about six months ago.
Then | wrote and didn't get any an
swer. After long time the letter
came back, marked Not att"
My stepmother" exclaimed Edna.
Exactly And when got back.
went up there, and she pretended she
didn't know your address. Neither dfd
anybody else I could fud: only they
said YOU were in New York. And I've
been hanging around here for three
solid weeks, just on the chance of
finding you"
Bob Z"
"Surest thing | was certain I'd
know you from your picture. I never
thoughtsabout your never having seen
me except in snapshot in uniform
and fool grin. But now I've got you
and. by jinkS YOU don't get away"
well, you needn't be 80 fierce about
II " said Edna "unb,g,. pvutty. ~,