The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-01
CHAPTER XVI.

NSoYpIlShA, 1910, ny kh'AS
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don't know what it was - friend
" and fine, as Tom. Ma5on's hand
clasp seemed to be-that impe1Ied me
10 insist that I must return to the
Wa1grave at once
I managed to do 1t SO casually
that he took no offense at my sud
den haste and insisted on escortns
me on my homeward journey And
he remained jolly and friendly even
when / asked for the refusal of his
apartment for a day or two
I'D like to talk it over with JIM"
L confessed
He smiled in big brotherly fash
ion
course you shall talk it over with
jim
Then still with courteous and i'm
personal friendliness. he took me to
the desk and waited while I got my
key The clerk handed me a sealed
hotel eneveIope.
captain Winston has telephoned
twice and wished you to call the
Army and Navy Club as soon as you
come" he said with something very
like a leer- Then he added, "Your
friends are not letting you miss the
Idcuhenant too much, are they2"
Perhaps he was only over anxious
to offer a guest every possible co<ur-
tesy,'' But his righteousness brought
home to me very poignantly the fact
that I did not want to live in a gilt
terinE big hotel a day longer than I
must
AS soon as I got to my room I
called Captain Winston and found he
was giving a dinner for some officers
and their wives that evening and
wanted Jim and me to come I
could not bear the thought OF seeing
happy married folk Sogether-while
and planning to go still further
from me And 1 blurted out the
truth
your poor little lonely LADY, The
dinner is off-positfvely. My friends
are all sporting lot No swank to
'em- They'll let me give the party
another night and comfort the bride
tonight Not a word. Mrs. Jimmie
Husbands matey looks after the lit
tie lady tonight
And he did We had a beautiful
time A delicious dinner season
ed with wonderful tales of my boy's
days in the Royal Flying Corps. New
er had 1 felt closer to Jim. To Cap
tain Terry Winston 1 was not q
woman to admire. but a sister to pro
tect-aboye all. the wife OF HIS INA.
stand the glorious urge that sweeps
the flying man to his conflicts above
the clouds 1 felt ia tune with Jirn's
desire to go back TO Franco wa.
reconcfied TO my sacrifice That din.
ner with Captain Winston on the roo.
OF the yaibrfggfa- gave a visitor
of what a soldiers wife must be.
conprehended.
He told me of tho new chfvalr,
of wonanhood the war was calIins
TO life Captain Winston spoke rev
erent1y of all wornanhood, and ther
there came one woman's name
you've seen the scar on Mrs
Bryce's hand That woman drove he,
car down a road the Huns were shell
ing-ehrapnei got her when she wa
helping poor Tommy into her am
bulance-"
He stopped speaking abruptly.
couldn't tell whether the reserve O
the Brftfsher had put a period t.
hts "reminiscences or IL the emotion
of remembering what he had know
were too creator II he had sud
denly realized that he was speakin,
10 Jim Harrfson's wife.
What was my husbands relation
to tho beautiful woman who ha,
stated her life in the same struggI
that had called my boy overseas?
For q second Captain Winston na
lifted the curtain, and then. with al
air of reserve, he dropped It again.
We had an evinfng of big-im
p%rs6na1-emotfons. One acciden,
erdsf1y personal married fl.
When came to the desk for m
tey there again was the inso1en
clerk. and talking to him was a IA
fpf1iar, oyer-dresSed, whfte-haire