The Glenwood post., 1920-06-26


won't have you speaking to me-" shs
biased. "h you don't 60 away shan
call policeman
Two or three men In the 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 q crowd
Edna's temper was at the point wheso
she would have welcomed it-and the
inevitable policeman. The young man
faced an emergency. But instead OF
sli king Off, he met 1t by seizing the
girls hand, tucking 1t under his elbow
and speaking very rapidly but dis
dnctly into her ear: III you're not
Edna Stearns, I'm in wrong; dead
wrong! II you are, I'm in the biggest
luck of my life. I'm Bob Feilowsl"
"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 Ednn'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
sweater and sent 1t 10 the bunlie.
That's how it started. And through
the correspondence that followed Edna
and the soldier had become wonder
full friends. Such fine, frank, manly
letters the boy had written; and
toward the last such intimate, hope
full ones, that seemed to take 1t for
granted that when the war was over
they We're 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 lust
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 to New York
1t was over one of those beIated teu-
room lunches that with so many New
Workers serve for dinner that il all
came out.
Il had awful luck" Bob explained
First thing, my companys clerk made
II mistake in the transport unit had
been sent to. and never got any mail.
And the very first time had TO drive
up to the lines "A high explosive shell
tore my truck to pieces and went to
the hospital for two months You've
heard of shell shock. Generally It's a
fake. But besides my broken arm and
leg | got a dose of that fool thing.
The way 1t affected me l 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 1t 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 at"
MY stepmotherl" exclaimed Edna.
Exactly. And when / got back
went up there, and she pretended she
didn't know your address. Neither did
anybody else | could find; only they
said you We're in New York And I've
been hanging around here for three
solid weeks, just on the chance of
finding you"
Bob !"
"Surest thing. was certain I'd
know you from your picture | never
thought about your never having seen
me except in "A snapshot I'm uniform
and fool grin. But now I've got you
and, by links you don't get away
well. You needn't be so fierce about
1t, said Edna; nobody wants to-"
Dr. Riddle eve ear nose and throat