The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-16
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against tue unuo'hoh' WV
full the meanness OF life! What a
contrast to the old, outworn, In
triguing Europe-whioh was like a
parcel OF scolding. plotting, intrigu-
ing old crones when the day OF their
yisor and attraction is gone! Tears
OF weakness, OF lassitude. OF long
ing sprang into his eyes and flowed
gently down to the pillow. Like the
lxart of a lonely child, his heart
kept pulling and stretching toward
his image OF home.
DIR. Clovis, the brisk French sur
geon came humming into the room
with a -bonjour. mou ami" and ex-
amined the chart. He then looked
at the patient and noted the damp
spots on the pillow.
"of what have you been thinking.
my friend?" he demanded with an
odd. tolerant crinkling OF the crows
feet about his specialized eyes.
"of home" answered Anthony.
"Of home" he repeated. "Ah.
then It will march! Then 1t will
march, my son. Get well!' An
thony said nothing.
There is a friend OF yours. pray
ing TO see you. Shall we give him
ten minutes-yes? He is most In
sistent."
what is his name?"
"His name-what do l know?
These English and American
names! Imagine to yourself the
name Tipperairie! Wen allow him
ten minutes"
A minute later Clarkson's great
bulk filed the doorway.
With a subdued boisterousness
Clarkson greeted him, tested with
him affectionately and praised him
in an assumed tone OF grumDiing.
THE old colonel" he announced.
'has hot.footed 1t down to Chau-
mont in the Cadillac to make full
report at G.. II. O.. OF your great
deeds"
That's good" Anthony respond
ed indifferently, "but the report Is
the least OF my worries"
at like that" growled Clarkson.
ut certainly means promotion
What of 1t, Clark? I'm not
West Pointer. What does promo
ton matter to me-with boy majors
and colonies filling the world? |
want to go home-that's what l
want"
But you will. son, you will. Well
all go home. Wait till we lick the
Hun"
He then gave Anthony his version
of the news of the nine-the devils
baseball team, as he called them.
Then abruptly. unable to contain
himself, he asked Anthony:
"You weren't sweet on that dame
in black. were your
"You ought to know" he MUIR
INJURED 81 wouldn't have believed
her on her oath-but she did hand
us a true tip. There is that to her
credit. She wants to get back to
the U. s. Well have to make good
and help her"
well, son. I see II won't upset
you II tell you-her body was
found in the Lake Of Geneva this
morning"
Ozone by Willie the Rat" MUIR
INJURED Anthony.
That's exactly what said"
"Yes. Clark, she's paid the price.
She did us one good turn before she
Ieft-some good in everybody He
PAUSED.
Her accounts Within sorry
she is gone-but her account Is
straight"
Clarkson made no attempt to
fathom his meaning. Perhaps he
understood.
The Developments of the succeed.
ing four weeks which Anthony had
spcnt in the hospital are too famil-
lar and too pregnant with vast sig
nificance for a recapitulatiOn even
TO be attempted here. One may
safely say that the face and the dis
tiny of Europe and the world were
changed during this brief period.
The Germans made their despairing
thrust across the Marine on July the
fifteenth, and that proved to be
their last. They were hurled back
on the eighteenth. and from that
day on the French, the Americans
and the British, in the titanic chess
game that Foch was playing. kept
moving and driving and checking
toward the final victory.
On August sixth, when Anthony
was leaving the hospital and Colonel
Cole came down in his car to take
him to Berne, he presented him
with an official envelope from G. II.
@. brought by the long courier the
day before, and Anthony discovered
that he was a captain and that the
commander-in-chief begged him ito
accept his thanks"
Blinded the Huns by that little
game you pulled off on those spies"
muttered the colonel gruffly, with
sparkling eyes. blinded them,
that's what we did. Their whole
systems gone to smash. They're
too busy running now to build up
another"
Anthony. still weak from his
wound and long confinement, shook