South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-20
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Stammeringly I try 10 tell him
something OF what 1 have been
thinking but / see only too quickly
that he is IN anything but a senti-
mental mood.
Probably Wen get to that sum-
NIT of peace and joy you're spelling
about" he says, with a provoking
grin. when we're ready to cele-
brate our golden or diamond we'd
ding day You know, like those.
dear old couples that have their
pictures in the papers with the cap
ton, He never said a cross word 10
her Personally. I think either the
cOnsciences or the memories of
those old people are at fault. We
couldn't have any such caption.
might say, she never biffed me with
rolling PIN but that's as far as I
could truthfully go. And 20 tell you
the truth, old dear, I wouldn't give
tinker's cuss for a continual peace
full valley or glorious mountain-top
i'm mine. II would be too monoton-
Gus. And whatever our life has
been, old girl, 1 don't think the most
captous critic could say that It has
been monotonous."
have realized before that Dicky's
volatile nature demands excitement.
variety. and I have wondered some
times how long 1, with my rather
methodical prosaic temperament,
could hold him loyal 10 me.
There has been a long stretch Of
peaceful valley in our life Journey
since the awful day when our baby
boy was stolen from us by Grace
Diapers pitiful tool, Tim. 1 came
very near banishing my husband
from my heart at that time, because
Of his absence motoring with Edith
Fairfax during the awful first hours
of Juniors disappearance, b u t
Dicky's terrible remorse and the re-
storation of our baby brought US
together again. and I have been
given no reason to doubt him since.
Is he. perhaps, beginning TO weary
Of the uneventful quiet tenor Of our
way2
The summer months have gone
swiftly since that terrible experience
with my most serious worry the
condition of Lillian Underwood. She
rallied so slightly, gained strength
so slowly I'm her long convalescence,
that when at last. the mere wrath
of her former self, she was able TO
leave the hospital, DR.. Fettit pro-
nounced mountain air the only re-
storative for her.
OF course there was but one place
l 10 ,hor-4 cso -, - rr~0rvTT hr,-
OF her coming 70 the Catskill- moun-
tain home OF his sister, Mrs Cos.
grove. and Lillian chung 70 me so
pitifully that Junior and 1 accom-
panied her and her small daughter.
Marion. TO the place remem bered
so we'll as the scene OF the dramatic
experience which gave Robert Saw
arin back 10 reason.
Dicky Resolves"
Of Grace Draper. since that night
Of Juniors recovery and her melo-
dramatic escape, we have heard
nothing She has vanished as If she
had been snatched from the earth
That Hugh Grautland Will not rest
until she IS found and put where she
can menace me no more, 1 am GER
tain. but Of that loyal. true-hearted
friend I have had no word since the
night he bade me farewell. save the
Inevitable postcards simply bearing
mis- address, which he sends me
whenever his duties cali him 70 a
new place.
The man across the road was sent
% prison for a long term, and only
up here i'm this Out-Of-the-
mountain resort. I am beginning 10
escape the publicity consequent up
on his trial after Juniors recovery.
1t has been a wonderfully restful
time for me. with Lillian slowly
gaining strength, and with D4oky
spending a good deal OF time with
US There is a .Lttle clutch at my
heart at the thought hat he may not
love "the peaceful valley or glorious
mOuntain-top" as I do.
Perhaps he reads my thoughts
better than I imagine. for he sits up
moves 20 the side Of the hammock
and possesses himself OF one OF my
hands
Look here. old dear" he says
with a tenseness beneath his care