New Britain herald., 1927-06-21
What Has Happened

What Has Happened
 l The entrance af America into thu World war finds Phillip Wynn' Tracy " suffering from collaps' of his first passionate love affair Before this he had had childisl engagement with Natlee Jones. Rod and Phil are first to enlist Mrs. Tracy sends Phil letter O introduction to Marta Tennis, thu daughter of her friend. who live near the training camp to whicl l Phil has been sent. Marta, in he zeal to do her bit, offers her ser vices to the "Y."
 While at the training camp. Phi meets Gladys, a girl of the streets to whom on an impulse of pity. h. ] proposes marriage. The girl. for hi good, refuses him. and he then in sists on giving her S1,0oO with whicl to start life anew.
 Phil's regiment is ordered bacl to New York. presumably bound 1 for France. While in New York ht meets Natlee and. their love fam ing afresh. they plan to be married The immediate departure of the re giment, however, prevents this. | The regiment is ordered to the front soon after arriving in France and Phil is detailed on an extremely dangerous mission. Returning witt important information he is wound. ed and Rod is killed trying to save his friend. Phil wakes in a hospita and received the Croix de Guerre fol | bravery.
 Here the story luther unfolds- CHAPTER XXXVJH A Note From Glad An orderly came in with the mail Every man in the room full o1 convalescents looked up eagerly ex. cept Phil. He had been disappoint ed so often that he had told him. self he was forgotten.
 Phillip Wynne Tracy ". That's | hell of name" said man who was sitting near him. Not so bac for me buddy: it happens to be mine"
 The orderly dropped two letter: into his lap. He knew from theii superscriptions that one was from his mother and one from Natlee.
 Opening the thickest he read: My darling son: You cannot realize what your letter this morn ing. saying that you wanted to Ge back to the front, has done to me have been living only in the hope that you would soon be sent home "The last three months have beer perfect nightmare. and I would rather die than go through three more like them.
 First. you must know you were reported missing. Then the long wait with no news whatever. al though all my friends besiegcd the war office.
 Dear heart. such agony l suf- fered. I tried to work. I tried to fill every hour of the day that na- ture, in self-defense. would send sleep to me at night.
 Il would wake in the morning. with no other thought than of won der as to how I was to get through another day without news of you,
 "Finally l picked up New York paper and read that you-or some one with your name-had been pre- sented with the CroiX de Guerre while you were still in the hospital.
 Major Aukland immediately got in communication with the editor of the paper, who cabled to his cor respondent in Paris for more news.
 "Then again endless waiting, and at last long delayed letter from you in which you told me a little about your wound and much of poor Rods death, but said nothing about when you would be able to leave the hospital.
 This morning a letter came. say ing you had not heard from me since you were wounded and left your regiment for the hospital. and