The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-04-14

his father with hearty slaps on the
back.
| 81 hear that many of our boys cut
up quite a bit in Paris" Henry Giles
Draper stroked his Civil War colonies
beard disapprovingly. But, OF
| course, my son, you conducted your
| self with due regard for honor"
"Of course" replied Arthur Draper.
The lieutenant fell back in the ways
| of peace readily enough, took his old
position as teller in Portland bank
and found domestic life in the old cot
| tage pleasant enough after the months
Of adventure in the war.
Half year later letter reached
him, after having wandered from ar
my post to army post, since it was adj
dressed to his old regiment. 1t was
from Madeleine Letrone and was full
of atfectionate phrases. She said
| that she hoped to see him before
| many months. He did not reply to
| it. A long while afterwards second
and more ardent letter came. Mad
aleine assumed that his reply to her
first letter had gone astray (how dis
ordered the postal communications
still were-she hoped to see him be-
fore long). And then later mis-
sive came from her telling him that
she had secured divorce from her
husband and was sailing in month
to join him. She would take the Ital-
ian liner Mariana.
Arthur Draper felt cataclism come
into his head. He fell into panic. He
did not know what to do with this
complication that would fall like a
thunderbolt into his comfortable bank
clerks home. In dispair he went
to his father for advice.
Henry Giles Draper was shocked
man. AS he listened to his sons
stammering account tears of horror
came into his eyes.
"The honor of the name of Draper
has been smirched," the father NUT
tered gloominly.
"What can we do with her when she
comes here?" the son exclaimed in
dispair. "She will be able to find
me through the army. l cannot elude
her."
"Elude herr" The father retorted
indignant at the thought of furthec
dishonorable conduct. "You will have
to do the right thing by her. The
right thing, l say
L
her, since l am married." The son
buried his face in his hands.
Then | will do the right thing by
her." cried the father, rising to his
feet
WHAT questioned the son, Lc
wildered
"a viii do the right th:rg by her,"
the father repeated slowly and en-
phatically. 81 will not see a lady
wronged by any member of our fam
lily. You cannot marry her as yod
should. Then l will.
81 have been a widower a long
time" he sa+ down and spoke to him
self meditatively II an kind of
lonesome, and maybe 4 French wife
will be a good thing at my age
And thus it was that Henry Giles
Draper, all spruced up, dressed in his
Sunday clothes and looking every inch
York, with his shamedfaced son be-
side him.
Meanwhile, strange things were
steamer Mariana. Since the vessel |
had left Marseilles Madeleine had
been pet aboard. She was q ro- |
mantle figure, French pride-to-be
going to marry her American soldier |
lover, and she was bright and amiable |
and everybody was charmed with her |
The happiness that filled her was con-
tagious, and she sailed the queen of
the ship.
One day several men were working
at the stearing gear. Madailne cain
and helped them. A beam slipped
and pinned her arm. She screame
wildly and when they removed tn
weight it was found that her right
hand and arm were badly crushed
CONSERVATION!
There was no physician aboard the
Mariana. Without medical attention
the young woman would probably die
of blood poisoning, and even if she
did not she would lose the arm, or,
with the bones unset, her arm would
be hideously famed and deformed
There was but one resort, and it was
the final resort for almost everything
at sea nowadays-the wireless.
The magic call was sent over the
sea. Another Italian ship fifty mile
aboard. The Mariana wirelessed AMI
dSSOullC VI LllS dCCluSuI. lie /
stefan replied with instructions for
treating the girls arm until he could
arrive-it was to be washed clean and
oandaged, etc. His ship would race
to the Mariana.
Soon the two steamers had sighted
each other and soon after they wereI
near to one another. A heavy seal
was running, but the lifeboat was
aunched.
The physician was taken aboard the
Mariana. He treated the arm and re-
,urned to New York with the strickent
who recovered rapidly, with
neither loss of arm nor Disagreement.
When the Mariana locked Made-l
cine scanned the waiting crowds at
he pier. Her heart beat little fast
II at the prospect of seeing young
Draper. Then she espied him and
waved joyously. AS soon as the gangl
flank was lowered she ran to him,
ager to be in his arms. He received
Ter with less warmth than she had