Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-05-13
Making Love 10
Mademoiselle

By H. LOUIS RAYBoLD

Monlreal.
Heck" he erumbIed, guiding the
car deftly between bus and hay
rick. This is healthy way of en-
joylng the scenery-all by ones lone
some In place where everyone speaks
French, and not the sort Of French
you learned In college either. What
would like"
on an unexpected curve the road
ster swerved to the soft shoulder
slowed, Enhanced, then turned over
into bit OF meadow three feet lower
than the bullt-up road.
When Clarke woke to a real cog
nizance of his surroundings, he was
lying on a very high, very comfort
able bed On the walls were strange
pictures and about the room was un-
familiar furniture. An old woman in
a black dress that reached to the iloor
stood measuring something out of
bottle into a spoon.
Feebly he recalled what had &C.
Cured and stirred slightly.
At once the old woman came over
and laid wrinkled hand on his fore
head. "Pauvre garconw she muir
INJURED. 'Pauvre garconp
But the following morning when
Monsieur lie docteur who could speak
broken English, arrived, Clarke was
able to get light on his present stu.
alton. He learned that his spill had
given him, along with lesser injuries,
fractured thigh That it had been
thought the long ambulance ride to
the hospital at Three Rivers would be
too much Cor him.
The doctor praised Madame yad-
mails as 4 nurse "superbe"
Afterwards, Clarke lay thinking
over his plight. Four hundred miles
from home in what was, to all in
tents and purposes a foreign country
What should he do? Weakness made
him homeslck and his eyes filed with
tears.
At that moment, the door opened
gently. Hastily blinking. back the
tears, Clarke turned his head, expect
ing to see Madame vadnals, the nurse
"superbe,7 who was, Ills instinct told
him, the tall old lady in black. But
It was not Madame Vadnals.
The person who had come in was
young and slender and beautiful
Bon jour- mademolselle said
Clarke, wishing he could rise and
bow.
She answered him In French and
she had to repeat what she said not
once hut several times before he IN.
derstood 1t. He sighed to think thnt
between himself and this enchanting
girl, whom he took to he one Of Ma
dame vadnais' several grnnddaush-
tiers, communication must he as tedi-
Gus and limited as one-way traffic
In the days that followed, he grew
fond of the whole Vodnais family,
from the grandmother, who nursod
him, down to the several small chill
dren. There were two other young
girls besides alue-eyed Marie, but
It was Marie WHOM he came very
nearly to wrship.
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uay ne sought 10 uhuerst"''n yer pet
ter sometimes ora siaaAine 'adhals
joined lheni ana "l' lhree hol cou'
siderable run out oi us u''e''p'S q"
the laneu"ge
me "eeNs pusseu pu''Hi''
1t was with mingled ieellnes ma,
he took his first walk from the small
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across tne unrrow s,' = ~ - ~,
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the DINER sloe' Nn""i's 'n"l u,'i's
miles beyond lay lne nome {" Nn'e"
ne womb ne at l"s' que 10 's,urll'
But "heh ne .lousnl vi aii.le II
strange acne tfounleu num- ne hiiew
that re hao come 10 'o'e n'i' ~
knew uso' ti,"' "'l'e'''gn ''i',' "''"
merried irench si''s "nu ''unu "'i'
pihess'
When ne saw her coming t"Warl
him with q little smile ON her face