The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-03-25
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PETER LYsTER loses his mem
ory from shell shock on the west
ern Front. Upon his return TO Loh-
don he fails to recognize
NAN MARRABY, the girl to whom
he had become engaged before ledV5,
ing for France. Nan a ~fetufneu
home from London, due to the deatR
of her stepmother, to take care o.
her three small s~tepbrothers' one
still writes to her friend. -.
JOAN ENDICOTT, who told her
that Peter and a fellow officer,
JOHN ARNOTT, were at the nome
of Arnotts widowed sister, NOT lar
from the Marraby home. Peter
also fails to recognize
HARLEY SEXTON, although the
latter claims to have been a friend.
Seton is a money lender, VINO mas
been calling on Mans father. To-
day he haS come to see Man,. VINO re-
fuses his advances and is HORNED
when in a rag he tells her that
both her father and Peter owe MN
great sums of money. He tells her
that it is up to her to say whether
he will press them or lot II IS
evening and Nan is in the garden
when one of her stepbrothers calls
her from the house.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
1T was Claude she knew, and
L Claude was her favorite, but to.
night she felt that she did not
want him. that she could not force
herself to answer his hundreds of
questions.
She opened the gate and fled into
the road.
It was quite a mild eyening-the
voice of spring was everywhere-aad
the promise Of golden summer days
to come.
Nan went on till she reached the
stile where Peter Lyster had sat
that morning with the p%rimroses in
his cap: she pushed it open and went
on into the wood.
The narrow footpath was soft and
messy beneath her feet-some little
wood animal, startled, rushed away
Into the dried bracken and last years
underground as she approached; the
tall trees, meeting overhead made
a dark canopy against the gray sky.
She was alone here, and the tears
rained down Mans face as she
walked-all her pluck and bravery
seemed to have gone now there was
no longer need for self.restraint.
The brambles caught at her dress
as she passed, and she dragged her
self free anyhow as she went; she
only wished that she might die out
here in the darkness and silence
that there might V be any need
TO 20 back again and take up the
burden which life had imposed upon
her.
She never heard a step coming to-
wards her down the narrow foot
path-never saw the red tip OF !
lighted cigaret through the dusk III
out Of the silence a mans Volc'
smoke to her-close beside her-s(
close that Nan gave a stifed shrek
and would have turned and fed, but
ne spoke quickly:
Don't be frightened-I'm not go
ing to hurt you-is anything the
matter?"
He paused. Good heavens? Miss
Marraby," he said, amazed.
Nan did her best to check the sobs
that were choking her.
Peter flung his cigaret into IN
bracken, and stood beside her, dis
tressed and perplexed.
She turned away. She leaned ne
arms against the messy trunk o
a tree and hid her face in them.
I'm so-ashamed," she said; he
breath was caught with sobs. III
not generally such an idiot.
She dried her eyes fercely, but tn
tears came again, and after a M
ment she gave it up; they were sti
running down her face when at las
she looked at him.
A little crescent moo had climbe
high above the tree tops, and thel
was a family phosphorescent ligt
in the woods by which they coul
see one another's face.
Peters eyes were full Of distress.
You must think I'm crazy" Ma