The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-29
HONEYMOONERS ABROAD
BY zoe 5EckLEY

Jacks first impulse was to plead with
Edna. but something in her manner held
him off.
+ Ihere was surface brightness to her
&C mments they flashed through the
tWiht mountain passes that had but
lately been the setting of the most grim
~ picturesque warfare ever known.
But as soon as Jack tried to bring
the talk round to a justification of his
mixing business so abundantly with their
honeymoon Edna Tended it Off A
strange self consciousness cverlaid with
animation possessed them both.
In their hearts vague resentment grew.
on Edna's part sort of remuneration of
her honeymoon happiness; on Jacks a
sense of the rightness and necessity of
his program.
The flash of sapphire lakes, shcre-
lines dotted with creamy villages: the
towering spectacle of Swiss Alps with
their laces and hoods of snow: the
bright air and immaculate Swiss cities;
the changing tongues as they passed
from canton to canton, from SWitzer-
land to Germany; the progress through
the various cuStC ms houses at the Dor
der-these were now like a dull motion
picture show to the Duryea's, whose main
thoughts and feelings were full of hurt
The train approached the ponderous
stifle a thrill.
Only short time ago not all the can
non of the Allies could pound their way
here where she was now going with the
speed of an express train!
a harsh, efficient race was about them
now, their speech rasping and unfriend-
~ to her ear.
They went to the Hotel Adlon on the
beautiful broad street called Inter den
,r9r,, oEa 1,,%
an immaculate paper "clother' table,
with the best of Rhine wines and a sweet
liqueur.
Jack tipped munifcently, yet the
whole bill came to less than an Ameri-
can dollar apiece. They had ccme to a
land where the currency standard had
dropped to a cumberland fiftieth
part of its normal value!
Early next morning Jack sought his
companys Offices and Edna, despite herl
Roman VOW never to go again sightsee-
ing alone. could not resist proving forth
to look into the windows.
She could not get over her amazement
at seeing a great, bustlng, apparently
prosperous city, with thronss of people
moving about as usual-a shade more
that a half-hour had elapsed since I'd
telephoned Lillian. l knew that I might
magazine, put it in my small travelling
bag, and sat in readiness to greet her.
Another five minutes and then l no
ticed a young man in chauffeur's cos
tune come down the stairs from the up
per level and look searchingly over the
people in the big room He walked along,
scanning each face, and I saw him
speak respectfully to three women about
my age and size. l could see that each
answered him in the negative, and fl
nally he stopped beside me.
Pardon me, madame" he said, and
his voice had an English accent SO ex-
aggerated that it almost smacked of the
stage ARE you Mrs. Graham"
'Why do you ask?' / returned frigid-
ly, on my guard in an instant.
Mrs Underwood. Mrs. Lillian Under
wood" he repeated precisely, requested
me to find Mrs. Graham, who was to
be in this waiting room at this time and
to bring her to her home"
II am Mrs. Graham, certainly I ad-
mitted, treasured, but puzzled. But
Mrs Underwood was to come after me
herself"
Il know" deferentiany. But she was
prevented. She asks me to give you
this
He took from his pocket a sealed en-
velope. AS l tore 1T open I recognized
both envelope and the monogrammed pa
per within as coming from Lillian's we'll
equipped stationery cabinet And the
hand writing of the brief note was un-
deniably that of my friend.
IF madame will please hurry in the