Evening star., 1921-11-13

had gone into the army or navy!
Meanwhile, where was my darlfn,
Hazel? l am going to let her tell IL
as she afterward told 1t to me!
4 4 + X
CHE said that after I left her to
60 into the smoker she cried. Sh,
said 1t was not 50 much that l ha6
gone as that I had wanted to go
tHazel always gets things down t.
a fine point) Besides. she had beer
hurt at my lack Of affection. Sht
said 1t is perfectly proper for hus
band to kiss his wife anywhere, and
that she had expected it of me. (PooI
little kido
She tried to be philosophical. and
to dwell on the thought that, though
love was woman's whole existence
it was Of mans life thing apart
but this only made her cry more. She
said she felt for just minute al
II every Illusion she had was shat
tered! Il felt an awful rotter wher
she told me this.)
But finally she dried her eyes. Sh'
said it was perfectly ridiculous TO.
her to go on shedding tears while
enjoying myself. (This was not true,
So she got magazine and read
story in 1t and ate some chocolates
Meanwhile q lot of stations har
passed and she began to get really
worried, but she was too proud t.
send the porter after me. and sh
had no money to tip him. anyway
SO she just waited. and after lon,
time-time enough. she calculated
for me to have smoked ten cigars
the conductor came through.
He asked her for her ticket.
She told him he had punched it
once, but he said he must do so
that she hadn't any, that it was with
her husband in the smoker.
Well, he believed her. and went
through, hunting me, and, of course,
couldn't find me; and by the time he
had gone all through the train and
told her she'd have to produce her
ticket or pay her fare.
Hazel told him she hadn't any
money, and that he must collect the
ticket from her husband. Mr.. Mont
rose, who was in the smoker, and
cellous gaze: young lady, I'm afraid
that story won't go. Nobody claims
you in the smoker. and If you had a
husband there once he's not there
now" (My poor darling Hazel"
She. stood up and faced that man
pFdSely. SHC Sdlus L. oc!
you!" But he stood there like the
rock Of Gibraltar. and slowly the
truth dawned. She said, speaking
with trembling lips:
But if he isn't in the smoking car
where is hep
couldn't say: but that if she really
had husband / might have got off
at the junction. A lot of people did,
just for the air, but if they were not
tom fools they usually got on again!
He made her sit down, and sent for
glass of water tHazel said she felt
herself going white). and then he ex-
planned that in asking for her ticket
he was only doing his duty, and that
as she had no money she had better
get off at the station and send a tele-
gram to her people-and that If her
husband was half a man he would
look her up, wherever she was!
Hazel passed over the insult to me.
She told him then, fatty, that she
had boarded that train for Washing
ton, and that she was going straight
through. AS for the fare, he could
charge it! (You can't faze Hazel)
Well, the old chap asked her name
again. and her city address He said
he couldn't charge two hundred and
twenty-five mile run, or the company
would discharge him: that railroads
were not run like department stores.
where you could snow your coin ana
go off with the goods; but that he
knew honesty when he saw it, and
that he'd pay the amount himself out
Of his own pocket, and she could mail
it to him when she found her folks.
>Hazel was relieved, of course. and
thanked him as well as she could, but
she was frightfully worried about
me.
Well. somehow it got around that
there was a bride going through to
Washington who had lost her hus-
band, and Hazel said that it was per-
fectly lovely the things people did to
comfort her.
They brought her smelling salts,
and a fan, and baby to amuse her.
and an elderly couple took her into
the dining car and ordered a spien-
did dinner; but Hazel said she simply
couldn't swallow it, because a lump
kept coming into her throat when she
thought of me!
Well, they just kept her mind oc-
cupied all the way to Washington.
and the elderly couple, who lived in
GEORGETOWN, wanted to take her home
with them; but she said she must go
straight to our hotel, so she ordered
a taxi, and had our luggage put in.
and when she got there made the
hotel people pay the bill! tHazel
certainly showed great common sense
for a girl)
She went right in and asked for the
manager. She said: My husband, Mr..
Montrose, wrote you for rooms two