The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-25
New Revelations of
a Wife
Memory Reveals to Madee Capt. Grant
lands Story.
By ADELE GARRISON

Memory Reveals to Madee Capt. Grant
lands Story.
I believe my experience at Il BE inn. my
wound and my resultant stay i 0 the hos
pital must have temporarily affected the
powers of memory upon which I've al
ways prided myself-although, indeed, no
jot of credit should belong to me, all
should be given to my little, mothers
training. For had I been In ordinary
fettle the name, Hugh Grant1hnd. would
have recalled to my mind tl1e' history of
the man az it had been blaEoERed to the
world through the columns or the Sun
day newspapers.
Hugh ~Grantland, millon. her holding a
high position in railway circlns, had. in
the beginning of the world war, thrown
aside his position and respDnst bilities as
if they were so many glass basubles, and
had gone to France, there to eAlist in the
Foreign Legion. Tales Of his bEavery had
come back by the dozen. Is had won
the CroiX de Guerre and every other
decoration worth having; he had had
more hair breath escapes than any Of
his comrades, which was marvellous
distinction Of itself in that -nampany of
daredeVils.
And through it all he had preserved
the reticence, the aloofness which had
always made him an object OF interest
the Journalists, many of whom turned
thrifty penny in accounts, pa Ttly truth,
partly guesswork. of his caLecr before
and since his entrance into THE army.
Missing Years.
For there had been numb 81 of miss
ing wears in Hugh Grantland'S life, years
in which he had been lost to the cultured
and wealthy circles Of Rciety into
which he had been born. He had been
l,;e oYts
capade about which there had been dark
whispers. always cautiously revived in
cleverlv yelled aIusion where's yer an ac-
count of him appeared. And Immediately
afterward he disappeared, 'tAlipped off
by his father" the wise-acref' said.
From, that time until quiet youth
hearing his name began work. as an or
binary Iaborer upon sm3lE southern
railroad nothing had been heard of him.
His mother had died Of a brolhen heart;
his father, implacable, never allowed ms
rorna +o he spoken even after ''he sons
phenomenal rise from his lowI J position
~ that of one of the highest places in
the gift Of a large railroad. second
wife reigncd in the mansion III e boy had
called hime--I knew now the reason LOT
he bitterness in Hugh Graatland's voice
when he had spoken OF tho poor deFls
with no home 20 speak Of
,rhore had been much speculation con
oo~nino the missing years, but no one
had ever known the truth concerning
49,, E,ron, the time he left college TO
the time he began work as q laborer he
,znir,t+ "a we'll have been buried for any
racord concerning him ever available to
the inquisitive delivers into IlHs past
Embarrassing sl'en ees.
W wonder the Other Mrs. Graham"
bo6 snolzen Of him as "The Capt Grant
- rrbara were few other Dersonali-
t1as n the land which so appealed to pop
,Ilar INA ginatlon as did this' mans.
"Weii?"
The rnonosyilable. with Il ,e question
,r4 infection, brought me back with a
stsr+ from the realm Of remi p!scent con-
Iacture in which I'd been wondering II
waa glad the moonlight WAS so faint
Otherwise. Capt Grantland must nav
saan the burning flush that spread over
.,,,, taco, and I didn't care, TO have him
lass the nature OF my thoughts.
sput r had not counted Upsn the swift
,r+ni1ion OF the man beside Inc.
trust remember what Tou've read
h,,,t ma In our kindly new papers" he
asked and there was such bitterness III !
bis tome that I realized what must nave
been his crucfiXon in the Years since MS
coming ha Ok a., - !
,a+a n7odesty of the man. m his mind
vras no thought of the column Of lauda- !
t,on Of his bravery and abih ! his NOR
t,;d constituencies had jumped To the con-
clnsion that il was only the sold story Of !:
his college disgrace, the cTi b., yelled al I
1us;ons to his missing yesas that l must
have read
NV noise completely forsa * me at his
question. Fos, q long, enh ERASED mo-
ment there was silence. 1aen knowing