The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-02-25

OF a BRIDE
10y Mad lnventions:I Count Chances
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i,By Mad Inventions Count Chances
for Daddy's Return.
Jane, dearR 'Chrys called softly.
She rose as she spoke and Jordan
Spence rose also; and they came to-
ward me, hand in hand, like little chill
dren. Evidently they expected me TO
accept their love affair as a matter OF
course! That was quite easy because
/ had accepted 1t long before they
themselves had dared to admit its ex-
istence TO themselves! made no COM
ment on the familiar clasping Of their
hands. Chrys continued:
"I'm selfish, janet Just Think You
might have gone down"
stopped her with caress. Then
turned TO Dr. Spence with:
Scene Archer! He was board you.
know! Where do his relatives liver"
The question reused Spence from
his dedication to the service Of Chrys
and set him to consider the wider de-
mands which the tragedy made upon
him. DR.. Travers, coming slowly with
find that we already knew the worst.
Together the men assumed all obvious
duties and invented many more.
Jim, Jr., assuring both that they did
not believe the report that the "Ione"
had gone down. She was supreme
example of non-sinkable craft. They,
insisted that she must be afloat and
that she would be discovered as soon
as the high sea subsidized They for.
lSwarded the news that had not been
aboard the Tone" when she sailed al
though the wire service reported Mrs.
Robert Lorimer and DR.. Henry Trav.
ers as belonging to the party on the
missing yacht.
Jim, Jr, wired back that he had OBJ.
tanned permission to go to gulf city
from which point he himself would
take up the search for the yacht in a
plane.
, "And I wouldn't wonder II the kid
picked up some clews! He was always
lucky devil" / heard Spence remark
to Travers. "a score Of flying men are
on the job, but I'll bet on Jim!"
! Said to myself, "There are lots Of,
new things under the sun. Never be.
fore has a boy set out in plane to
rescue his father from a derelict. In
the name Of high adventure 1t ought to
follow that Jim should sweep down:
and"snatch his father from lift raft"
BY such mad inventions counted the
chances which would bring Daddy
back to us.
Underneath my anxiety about,
Daddy was the deeper concern about
my husband. Finally l realized that
everybody was caught up with the
shipwreck and had to remind them
that Bob's fate might be worse than
his fathers. said to Chrys:
"I'm going to ask DR.. Travers to go
out to the hacienda with me at once.
see that you are depending on Jordan
Spence"
you for letting him remain here"
When DR.. Travers and I were start,
ed, at last, for the hacienda, thought
of what Daddy Lorimer had decided
about us when he found that we had
left the yacht together. / felt hyster-
ical and awfully sorry for myself. 1t
seemed dreadful that he who had loved
me SO should harbor such dreadful
notion about me,
Trayers drove the cac. We seldom
spoke. as we, tore along, but / knew
that he was brooding over the disaster
mind was divided between the catast.
rophe we were leaving behind us and
that which we were about to face.
| couldn't plan what to do at the
hacienda and Travers knew nothing
whatever OF the situation there. We
would, have to adapt ourselves 10 cir
cumstances as we found them.
One thing was sure: If life ever did
turn out right again, IL ever reached
the safe comfort Of the horimer house.
again, was done with adventure for
ever and forever.
had discovered that what looks like
adventure in fiction is unadulterated
hardships in experience.
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