Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-03-02

NOnfe S SiOnS
" of a Bride

The airmen swept the sea with their
glasses, the wireless flashed from ship
to ship and up and down the coasts OF
two continents, but not a word OF news
concerning the
We Could Not Imagine missing lone"
n Life In Which Daddy came to com
Lorimer Had No Part. fort us. Bob
took command
of the search for his father by a spe-
cial wire to our rooms Ia the hotel, he
acquired IN short order, Information
from every boat which had been within
200 miles Of the LoTimer yacht the day
OF the big storm. Several ships had OBJ
served the lone speeding northward ut
a fast clip before darkness covered the
earth that day. THUS her location was
known with exactness. but not n single
ship had observed as much az n life
preserver marked Tone" after the hur-
ricane had passed.
There's only one chance" said Jim.
Jr., when he Joined us at the end OF a
week. Its possible that some coastwise
freighter may have picked up the sur
vivors and then became disabled itself
Or maybe managed to lose Itself outside
the lanes Of ocean travel Boats do,
you know, get lost, sometimes, IL dis
abied"
We welcomed Jim's optimism and we
assured each other, over and over, that
there was stin hope And we we're all
50 glad that we had Jim. Jr.. with us
for that melancholy trip back home
None of us would admit that the worst
had happened to the yacht. 1t was I'm
possible for any OF us to believe that
we would never see dear Daddy Lor1mer
III
or one could consider the possibility that
friends-or neighbors or relatives
might die but not one OF us could i'm
agine a life in which Daddy Lorimer
had no part.
He had been the sun, we realized,
and we the satellites revolving around
him and it was unthlnkable that the
Lorimer family could exist without
him
1t was especially terrible for me 10
think that dear daddy had gone out OF
my life forever believing that / was
the kind of girl who could be disloyal
to her husband! That he had ceased
to be the center OF our universe troubled
me less than that he should have gone
out of 1t thinking evil of me. Grief Is
always selfish, ! suppose. It was In
relation to myself that kept thinking
about daddy.
| wanted very much to tell Bob why
1 was so particularly unhappy. Time
after time my husband kissed me ten
derby as If he could not be grateful
enough to the fates for preserving me
from the disaster. In the rush Of events,
I had not had an opportunity to ex-
plain at length how and why Travers
and l had gone away from the yacht
in a power boat at midnight. And If
Bob should hear but half Of the story,
he might be jealous. For lesser cause,
he had been moody more than once in
our married life.
81 was the last of the family TO talk
with daddy" l said as we sat in the
drawing-room of the train one evening
We were crossing the vast Mexican
desert and we would have time for
long conversation. without needing 10
be urged, | related all that had hap
pened the day the "Ione' was lost and
concluded with the rescue of Spence and
Chrys
"Chrys and DIR. Spence wouldn't have
persisted on the beach, although they
failed to get aboard the yacht. They'd
have survived a night in the open and
surely would have reached town next
day. It seems to me that you didn't
save them-they saved you by making
you lose the yacht" Bob said.
at would seem so,' l agreed, and then
I related the details of the telepathic
message 1 had received from my hus-
band and told why daddy's valet had
prophesied that the "Ione" would sink
Jordan Spence watched me through a
haze of blue smoke.
"You are opening one of the biggest
and most interesting discussions of the
century, Mrs. Lorimer. Spiritlsm--or
spiritualism-is having a world wide re-
vival since the war; he said.
"Just at present more books are being
published for and against spiritism than
on any other subject" said Jim, Jr.
throwing down a week-OId paper and
lighting a fresh cigaret 1--WE just read
that the big public libraries do not
pretend to meet the demand for such
works. Somebody has a new thought
advanced thought'-on 1t every dayr'-
Copyright 1920. by the Newspaper En-
terprise Association.