The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-09-21
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! has lost his memory from shock
when shell burst in the British
front lines. killing u score Of men.
he has forgottcn that just before
| leaving LondcA he became engaged
! NAN MAEEABY, who is heart
: broken because her attempts to re-
kinde his love have failed. Nan,
, forced from home by a cruel step
mother, has been living in small
I London apartment with
! JOAN ENDlCOTT, whose husband
is coming home on leave. Word Of
her stcpmothcr's death gives Joan
an excuse for going home and lcav-
ing the happy couple alone. On the
train she meets
HARLEY SEXTON, who claims to
be Il friend Of Peters. She tells
him that her engagement to Peter
has been broken. This seems to
please Seton. Seton tells Nan Of
; the case Of Il young man who mar
; ricd just before leaving for the
, front. and upon returning home
: used Gloss Of memory" as an excuse
for not going home. He indicates
that another woman was the cause
Of it all. Seton also tells Nan that
he is going to his summer home,
situated near her own and she real
ICES that Seton will live not far
from the home Of
LIEUT.. JOHN, ARNOTT'S sist"~,
where the latter has told Nan he will
! take Peter. Seton has taken Nan
to the door Of her home, and she is
| entering the land Of her childhood
| for the first time in many years.
NOW co on WITH THE STORY
Nan walked straight into the hall
, Everything was silent. Outside in
, the garden Il blackbird dartcd sud
| denly down from 4 tree and flashed
across the lawn like black shadow,
| piping shrilly. 1t sounded great
! sound in the silence.
| Nan w,nt into her fathers study.
There was nobody in the room.
A letter lay on the blotting- pad: as
| if it had just been written and left
there. 1t was addressed to charley
Seton, Esq, The Red House, Little
Ga lsdsn."
Harley Seton! The name caught
Mans eyes. She had noticed the
! same name painted in small letters
: on the side Of Scfton's suitcase as
! they drove through the village to-
/ gcthcr. ..
She took the letter up and looked
| at it curiously: instinctivcly she had
not liked Seton; even all those
months ago when she and Peter had
| met him in London she had not been
/ preposscssed in his favor.
Peter had laughed ut hcr when she
told him.
She dropped the letter again to the
! blottcr.
| "Tm full of suspicious she
come over mc:'
! when she heard her fathers voice in
the hall; she went out quckly--therc
was a moment of silence when they
/ came face to face.
! Mr.. Marraby was Il tall, thin man,
with shoulders that dropped as if
! they had Il heavy burden to carry.
! Nan was not in the least like him
nobody would ever have thought
| :hcy were any relation.
! well, my DEAR he said.
| Nan said, "Wcll, father" She was
afraid to say she was sorry for her
/ stepmothcr's death. because she felt
that she would not be believed; she
went up TO him and laid her hands
p, or his shoulders. kissing him gently.
II came us soon as | could" she
! said
| ayes, yes. - She had the
curious imprcssio that he was hard
ly listening to what she was saying:
she stood for moment looking at
him helplessly.
! "Shall go up to my ROOM She
! asked. Ana where are the boys?'
"The boys?' Mr.. Marraby passed
; a hand across his eyes as if to try
and collect his thoughts. 81 really
don't know" he said apologctically
"Pcrhaps one Of the maids
He looked SO helpless that Mans
heart melted. "Ill find them she
said. She took her suitcase and went
up to the room that had always been
hers. 1t looked bare and unfricndIy
She took off her hat ana coat. ShC
went to the window and opened il
wide.
81 cant live here for the rest OF
) my life" And yet there was :, deep
rooted conviction IN her heart tha,
.. just come back to take ~ tn,
three years ago t. 20 to London ant
Miss Lystcr.
There was sound Of stifIcd wills
pcrs on the landing outside her doc
whispers and Subducd < igglc.
Nan turncd-thc half-closcd dool
was moving gently presently /;
tousled head was thrust round, fol
lowed by another and then another
Three boys Of ages ranging from
: six to ten stood outside cycling hel
with bashfuf interest.
eve heard you'd comc," said the
biggest Of tho three.
"Hcard you'd come" echoed tn,
.. second biggest, with nod.
: Heard you'd come the small DO;
repeated monotonously.
- "Ycs, I've come" she said. "Ant
, I'm going to stay if you want ms
TO-"
The big boy. nodded, the secon,
one looked at the big one and nodded
too-and the little one looked at boil
his brothers and nodded also.
So Nan came back home. 81 don
see how / can ever leave then
again." So she wrote to Joan Endi
,, colt the following day. ''Fathel
seems so utterly helpless and leave.
everything to me, and the boys
,, now seem to be getting to know
them bcttcr-are really dears.'
On the fourth day after Mrs. Mar
raby had been laid to rest, Joa,
wrote:
"Mr. Arnott came this. morning
!. He seemed very disappointed to heal
you had left London. He said tina
you promised to tell him when yo.
were going. Why didn't you, Nan
lie seemed SO very nice. Anyway, h.
:. said he should probably see you SOON
as he was going down to stay will
his sister, and think he said thai
his sister lived somewhere near you,
, home"
Mans heart Jeapt. There was nc
mention Of Peter. She wondered il
: Arnott had said anything about
I Peter. Joan might have told her. il