The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-23
THIS HAS HAPPENED

THIS HAS HAPPENEU
sYBIL THORNE. Boston society
girl. was engaged nj rs to q young
soldier JOHN LAWRENCE. who
Of their marrlaEe-0nd never re.
turned. Sybil mourned him Tor
mOnths-and then. In the wny OS
youth. Eave herself up to romance
and indiscretions In . vain at
tempt to forget.
Years later she contracted .
wretched marriage. Of which
beautiful child was born. When
her SON was year old. Syhil
brought suit for divorce. On the
day ON which her case was to
hive opened. heP husband WINS
killed while motoring from bis
home In New Haven to court In
BOSTON.
sybil incurred her family's
wrath and the displeasuFe Of her
friends by celebrating His death
with thenter party.
Shortly nfterwnrd she goes
apartment hunting with MABEL
MOORE. her dearest friend. The
zeal estate agent calls for them
the door Sybil shrieks sJohn!''
He recognizes her. and falls.
faintinae Mt her fees.
Sybil and Mabel revive him
and he tells the stOry Of his
strange disappearance. John Law-
rcnce-back from the dend!
When he concludes his dramatic
md tragic story Of battles and
death and shcllshOck-nIl m true
Ns the history Of the brnveat Of
the brave-he takes Sybil In bis
arms.
Ana. "Do you love me. sybils"
he asks her.
. E,x ,,,aorts,r.A srhae -. a.
another lover CRAIG NEW
HALL.
Her heart IL pounding wildly %
she tries to answer.
NOW co ON. WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIII
GIT was girl in Paris" John
said at last. "She used that
same stuff. Girl at Maxim's. Some.
thing about her reminded me OF
somebody. But I didn't know what
1t was-or ,Uho 1t was. She drove
me almost crazy. I used to sit and
watch her-and listen to her. One
night-she was cocotte you see.
Sybil-and this night she asked me
to buy her q drink. l stood there,
staring like fool-and all OF q
sudden | got giddy. l didn't know
what it. was. :. God. Sybil-don't
you see-that girl had on verbena
too!"
John passed his hand over his
forehead.
II can smell her now. verbena.
-. That's what 1t was"
Poor darling" Sybil took hia
thin cheeks between her palms,
and drawing his head down. put
her lips to his hair. "She reminded
you of me. suppose. only you
couldn't know"
AN odor." he said brokenly,
Like a breath from the past"
And it didn't bring hack any.
thing?" she asked. "You used to
kiss my hair. John-rememberl
Remember that big psyche wore!
When had 1t cut. ] put It I'll
away. and kept 1t in memory OF
you and your kisses on Il. I re-.
member | had some perfume in q
little green atomizer with pink
roses on it-Tad gave It to me one
Christmas. And l always squirted
It on my hair when l was going to
meet you because you told me once
] had the sweetest hair in the world.
That thrilled me awfully. Tell
me about that girl. John. Yol,
didn't associate her magnetism
with any particular thing about
her." ..t,
II knew there was s0mcthinu, =
he repeated. but ! couldn't quite
lay hold Of it. / sort al, thought II
was her hands. She kind Of hutr
tered them. You know the way
1 some girls do. when they talk. 4
Il used to wonder II those white
hands of hers held the secret Of all
I'd forgotten. i don't remember
OF having been conscious OF any
scent about her. But now It all
comes back. lean close my eyes.
and see scr sitting there. !.