Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-21
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CiiVe's not let us-me Of that Lady
Tybar-see him. Yesterday we were
permitted again; and I took steps to
be there first. You know you're
wife's divorced you. old MANI He
said painfully, Yes, I know. I re-
member that
of course it will come back to him
IN time that the business hadn't hap
pened before his illness. In time he'll
begin to grope after detailed recollec-
t1on, and he'll begin to realize that
he never did go through it and that
1t must have happened while he was
III. There'll be another thing. too
He'll find his wife has married again.
Yes, fact! I heard in a roundabout
a n she's going to marry an old
neighbor of theirs. chap called Major
Millet, Hopscotch Millet, old Sabre
used to call him. However, that's
not the thing-that will have hap
pened and will make him thank God.
What do l mean? Well. that's tell
ing: and I don't feel it's quite mine
to tell. Tell you what, you come
around and have a look at the old
char tomorrow. I dare bet he'll be
on the road towards it by then and
perhaps tell US himself"
!, o"oie WAS sitting pfOppc0 up In
bed. awaiting who next might come.
The nurse. had told him he was to
have visitors that morning.
The door opened and one came in.
Mona
She said to him, Market"
HI had no reply that he could
make.
She slipped off a fur that she was
wearing and came and sat down be-
side him. She wore what he would
nave thought of as q kind of waist
cat thing, cut like his own waistcoat
put short; n opened above like a
Wa1stcoat but turned back in a white
rolled edging, revealing all her throat.
she had a little close-fitting hat
banded with flowers and q loose veil
depended from it. She put back the
veil. Beauty abode in her face as
the scent within the rose, Hapgood
nag said; and, as perfume deeply in
hailed, her serene and tender beauty
penetrated Sabre's senses. propped up,
watching her. He had something
to. say to her. -
How long is it since L have seen
Marko." IN, =
II don't remember IT,"
You've been very i'll; OH. 50 ill"
He said slowly, "Yes, I think I'VE
been down in a pretty deep place.
Your going to be splendid now,
He did not respond to her tone. He
said, I've come on a lot in the last
lew weeks, I'd an idea you'd been
about me before that. I'd an idea
thing I've been thinking out to tell
you. -
She breathed. Yes, tell me, Mar
ko."
But he did not answer.
Sne said. Have you been thinking.
IN these weeks, while you've been
coming on. what you are going to
His hands. that had been crumpling
pp the sheet. were now laid flat be-
lore him. His eyes, that had been.
regarding her. were now averted
from her. fixed ahead. There il
mean" go
She was silent little time.
'Marko, we've not talked at all
ABOUT the greatest thing-of course
they've told ou?--the Armistice. the
war won !, England, your England
maj you loved 30. at peace. victori-
her own again. Your dear Enxiand
Marko."
He said. TITS no more to do with
me. Frightfui things have happened
to me. Frightful things"
She went on There's your book
your England, You have that to
80 to now. And all your plans-do
2 remember telling me all your
plans such splendid plans. And
first OF all your England that YOU