New Britain herald., 1924-05-27

sails for America.
 When Nigel's brother David, call.
 to see Nige's widow, Mary i. ashamed to tell him of Dolly's mar. riagc. David mistakes Mary fol
 Nigel's wife and takes her to live with his aunt at Red Grange.
 Monty Fisher exposes Mary tc David. Mary disappears. She meets an acquaintance, named Evans, who sees her run over by cab and taken to a hospital. Evans tells David where to find Mary.
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 Where is she-where is she l Heavens. man, can't you speak? How slow you are."
 Evans began to stammer.
 She was afraid of you, sir. Afraid. She thought you were going to punish her. She has been hiding, because she--' He stopped: there was no need to finish his words. The ex- pression of David Brcthertop's eyes was a sufficient answer: he stood back with a sort of pathetic humbeness.
 If you will come with mo, will take you 10 her. sir. She is in the ! T. hospital"
 CHAPTER LN.
 In No. Ward She was lying so still---so very still when David Bretherton followed the nurse down the ward--that for a mo- ment his heart seemed to stop beat ing as he bent over the narrow bed, with its painfully even folded clothes, and looked at her white face. Mary" He spoke her name through the unbearable silence, but it fell on deaf ears.
 The nurse looked al him pityingly.
 'Skc mot hear you--she has not been conscious ever since they brought her in"
 She smoothed little crease in the coarse sheet.
 David was conscious of sort Of angry impatience; her calmnoss got on his nerves. How could one bother about crease in a sheet when death was lowering round the bed? What did anything matter if Mary were dying?
 He sat down beside the bed. and leaned his face in his hands It seemed to him now that he had been very cruel to .her in the past; he had held back and kept silent, when a word from hi mmight have lifted the burden she carried and brought peace between them.
 He had gone on, hoping that she would toll him of her own free will: believing that some day she would come to him and make a full con fession Of her innocent deception.
 He told himself that he had tried her too much, that he had allowed the misunderstanding 10 exist too long.
 His natural reserve and coldness seemed 10 be broken up in a sudden flame of passionate remorse; he felt as if he could fall on his knees beside that silent figure, and beg her to speak to him-beg her passionatcly 10 open her eyes and smile at him once more.
 But he only sat there for a mo- ment; there was a sort of compassion in her eyes, then she turned slowly away.
 She believed that Mary was dying. She did not believe that she would ever regain consciousness.
 David had wired 10 Miss Narney that Mary had been found. He did not tell her how or when. but he knew that she would come I'D to town as soon as she possibly could,
 He stayed at the hospital all night. s'hey had drawn a screen round Mary's bed now; and David sat there in the almost unbearable silence watching her in sgonized suspense, not daring to hope that she would over speak to him again.
 lt was too late! often that knowledge has broken a mans heart too late 10 ask forgiveness. too late to speak the word of simple under standing and comfort that might have saved so much pain and suffering. Dawn broke gray and chilly; it stole into tho long ward like timed visi- tor, gradually driving away the shadows. and lighting ID the wan faces Of those who filled the narrow beds
 David was cold and weary. but he hardly knew if. fe seemed 10 have lived through a lifetime in that one night. The face he Hfed 10 the nurse when she came round again was gray and haegard.
 You don't think she will get bet tcre"
 Thero was hopeless despair in his voice: she shook her head.
 There is always hope" she said gently.
 The old platifude. And yet what nlse is there to say when human pkfll has given Of it's best and one can oniF pray?
 The long hours dragged by. If ''as middsN before Miss Narney camc. She rad been to the Fishers. and rame straight on. She ~ss fright ansd and fearful; she broke down altogether when she saH Msry's still face.
 Oh. poor child. Poor dariiar child" She stopped and kissed the I girls white cheek. her tears fell fast. l
 David moved restiessiy. somsbos- . they entied her easy expression or grief. II was beyond him altogether. He field as if his heart had frozen during those IorE hours of night . 
 Presently he allowed Miss Yarney I io take him away.