New Britain herald., 1924-03-22
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Mike, Sallie sat bolt upright in bed stifing a scream. What in the world had happened to her A host of recollectons flashed across her mind but soft footsteps were ap- preaching outside the door and she slipped back upon the pillow and closed her eyes
 Shs heard slight tinkie as tray was set down upon the stand, then there came the soft rustic of the win dow draperies and a brighter light shot acrass her lids and after that the footsteps approached her bed again.
 Saliie could feel the hot fiusf, which had mounted in her cheeks but she forced herself to open her eyes once more and meet the gaze of those inscrutable ones.
 The chocolate, Mees Ava" The maid helped her sit mp and re- arranged her pillows. Madame will be here in a moment: she is en- ehanted That you have recovered con- sciousness so soon."
 "so I've been sick, have Ie" sallie slipped her chocolate and eyed her companied over the rim Of the cup.
 But yes, mademoiselle! You do not recall? It was the shock to the head" The woman was smoothing the lace coverlet on the bed. DO you feel nothing, Miss Afya?"
 I've got a fierce pain here" Sallie raised one hand to her head and the cup would have dropped from the other had the maid not taken it from her. She had encountered bandages ---bandages which fitted down like a cap almost to her ears! Surprise oeerTuled caution and she demanded: 'what--what is 1t? How long,"
 Three days mademoiseile. since we have returned to New York from ihe hospital in that place. Hut you must not talk now. You will have no more chocolate7'
 Sallie shook her head dumbly and there was no stimulation in the limp ness with which for the second time she sank back on the pillow.
 The woman ba,hed her face and bands. brushed back the soft, golden Lair about her forehead and then re- moved the tray, pausing for q mo- nent in the doorway, but Saliie made TO effort to detain her. She wanted to be alone, to think. q
 There had been the quarrd with Mike and the long. sleepless night with the hateful face of Name Dor sey floating before her: then the dis nal, rainy dawn and Ma. Brennan's worry about the linen. She had gone out herself to the back yard 10 bring 1t in of the lines just as the fest express came laundering along on. the tracks lying beyond the rckety fence and then there had been . terrible crash--i
 Slowly, painfully the girls mind pieced together her last conscious im- pressions and now complete reaiiza- ton rushed upon her. The switch there at the junction only the length of two houses away, where the milk train was overdue and Hughie Rob. bins pA drinking again! There had been . wreck and most Of 1t had piled on her there in the back yard between the lines of wet clothes! shs must have been mistaken for somebody else, but why had Ma Brennan let them take her away?
 My darling child!" There was a pestie Of silk, a wave of the same perfume which had greeted her walk ins sens~s and two arms clasped her in d tense embrace. "Aiya, do you know me- Therese told me that you had come to yourself at last AIvs- spsak to your mother"
 ssIiies lids lifted slowly and shc beheid q large figure in lavender srsperies and handsome face with steeay gray eyes close to her own. "Mother." indeedi There was some thing in this that she didn't under stand but 1T they were playing some rame-7 salIie grinned faintiy.
 IT. got hurt7"
 "Oh, my dear. there was 2 terrible wreck! But do you recall nothing or ita" The visitor seated herself on 2 low chair by the he'd and took ono of the girls hands in both ct hers. We were or the train returning from Frsnch Lick Springs. asleep in our drawing room at the end Of inc car when the crash came. ! shall spare you the horror of il for I. foo. was buried unconscious fn the debris. but oh. Aita, My thankfulness Hh.n I tams tn myself Tn the hospital and fnnud zou there beside mt. eten ? hen hr doctors told gne--."
 sis paused shudderinF and Eailie rstcHing her closely saw That her | face had whitened beneath it's coat i iig of cosmetics whiie 2 haggard line sppeared about the narrow. firm lips ] There r8sn't my acting in fhis. sailie started 10 speak and then checked herself suddenly: that maid I had seemed to fecogaize her. also.
 Wasn't she The girT's uaick . brain caught at tbe name which the : older woman had used and in un- ! conscious mimicry she initiated fhe 1 accent. "Hasn't- Theress there. ] toe-" !
 "Ah. yas. dear child. see you gre beginning to renemberi She ] was in her berth just beyond our ] door and thronn clear of fhe wreck ' sra. being merely bruised. But ] you have not asked about anyone slse."
 There was a haH-playfu chiding rote in her tones which Eeen1s-J 1 forced. somehow. and saiiie gave