New Britain herald., 1927-06-23
WHAT HAS HAPPENED.

Phillip Wynne Tracy W had hat a childish engagement with Natlet Jones. Then he becomes interested in Lyra Hilliard. an old friend o1 his mother'a The whole affair however, sinks into nothingness be. cause America enters the World War.
 Phillip Tracy and Rodney Max we'll are the first to enlist. They SC to training camp.
 Finally the regiment Is ordered back to New York, presumably bound for France. While in New York, Phil meets Natlee and their love flaming anew, they plan to be married. The immediate departure of the troops. however, prevents this.
 Phirs regiment Is sent to the front soon after arriving in France and Phil is detailed on an extremely dangerous mission. Returning with important information he is wound ed and Rod is killed trying to save his friend. Phil wakes in hospital and receives the croix de guerre for bravery.
 His mother, Anne Tracy. in the meantime has been at deaths door with flu and while convalescing. Major Aukland tries to persuade Anne to marry him. She will not give him an answer, however, until she hears from Phil. and to that end decides to go to France to hunt him. As Anne is leaving the War Office in Paris with her passes to Germany, she comes face to face with her son.
 Here the story further unfolds--
 CHAPTER XIII
 Phillip Could Not Stand the Strain
 of Meeting
 Anne Huntington Tracy never knew what she said or did when she found her son at the Place de Ia Concord on the Rue de Rivoli. She was halfway to the Crillon. her arms about Phillips neck, her lips on his, when this earth again came into her consciousness.
 He had lifted her from her feet and walking backward. with her body pressed against his. His heart was beating against hers with such clamor that 1t seemed to her his strong young arms were crushing heaven into her heart.
 She opened her eyes. almost afraid that she would find her love and longing had played a trick upon her reason.
 Again she lost track of everything except that she was cnveloped in golden sunshine that poured warmth and happiness into her soul.
 She had never known how she had missed Phillips smile until she found it again curling up the cor ners of his lips and shining through the tangled lashes of his speaking eyes.
 There was a sound of music in her ears: the music of broken and forgotten words-incoherent words that said nothing but told her everything. l. seemed to her that It might be thus in that last day when God was treading the last world into oblivion.
 In that moment Anne Tracy lived the cons of bliss which told her that the promise of heaven to the world weary and miserable, was something very tangibl, and real.
 Neither Phillip nor hls mother realized that they had been guided by the hand of Major Aukland in- side the door of Hotel Crillon and into a secluded corner of the lobby. where with sigh that was almost a groan he had left them.
 They did not know that he had gone, for they had not realized that he had ever been there beside them.
 To them, as yet there was no world except that which was bound by their encircling arms-whether 1t was still that day or another, they did not know.
 She only was aware that some- where the morning stars were sing ing together; singing her sons