Glacier County chief., 1939-09-29
BY ELIZABETH YORK MILLER
Copyright 1880: By News Syndicate Co.. Inc.
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO


IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO
Never before in her life had Mary
Brown got into conversation with a
young man who had not been properly
Introduced but as has been pointed
out, she was becoming, perhaps not
disorganized so much as reorganized.
She smiled and was lost.
How surprised and incredulous her
bosom pals at home would be, when
she told them about this adventure.
Yes, maybe you won't believe 1t, but
once did pick up "a, man aIn.s OF rather
He was an American naval officer
and it happened in Monte Carlo where
bought this blouse I'm wearing.
He was off battle cruiser cruiser that
I'd noticed it from the bus :. Oh,
yes, he was ever so nice, really, once
we got to talking. He'd been in
motor accident and hurt his foot and
Just outside Nice A funny thing. I'd
noticed that from the bus, too, They
call it the English hospital, but it flies
the American flag as well as the
British. and perhaps that sort of made
Whatever it was, something did
make them get chummy, and within
five minutes Mary Brown had gar
nered the above mentioned informa-
His name was Dick Chambers
Lieut.. Richard Chambers, when pinned
down to it, although he pronounced
it '1ootenant." Mary Brown was not
surprised, for she, was familiar with
American navy films and their &C.
centricities.
She was sorry, now, for the way
she had snubbed him in the Boulevard
des Moulins. 1t seemed that he had
only been going to ask her to help
him choose few things for his sisters
back home in Maryland. No use offer
ing her services now, for he had &C
CURED what he wanted. He showed
her a PEI befl9 tss1s box he had showed
It might be that the contents Of
that box would travel no further in
the direction of Maryland than the
nurses, but Lieutenant Chambers didn't
that Subject.
She was pretty herself, but not one
of those chance acquaintance Of the
in two minutes. She didn't rush, to
meet his friendly overtures,. and he had
to let her pay her own share OF the
refreshments or there would have been
One thing led to another. though,
and Dick Chambers learned quite a
lot about Mary Brown, too, especially
when he said he had full months
leave, starting 10 days from d now; IA a ara
he didn't know a living soul: And then
they found they were both leaving
Nice on the same day. BY, the same
train, the Calais-Ventimille Express.
That was an interesting coincidence,
if you like.
They were going the same way now,
too, for he had to be back in his
hospital bed by o'clock. and she had
to Sit down to dinner in her pension
at 7, or risk the maitre d'hotefs dis
pleasure.
Dick Chambers was talker;, which
was rather a pity, for he talked SO
steadily that he forgot to find out
the address of Mary Browns pension,
or make arrangements for supse-
ed the last turning after Villefranche.
when, 10, the proud flags of the two
great English-speaking nations were
revealed Tapping in the breeze and he
had arrived at his destination.
The Gus pulled up with a screech OF
brakes and the conductor broke rudely
into the ieutenant's happy monologue:
"'ospital Anglais!" he shouted, as
one who would SoE brook no argu gaf Off
I say-when am going to see you
again What about tomorrow"
Mary Brown nodded and blushed,
but the conductor, wasn't having any
disabled sailor off his bus with the
fearful efficiency of the French, once
they have made up their minds on
subject.
same time s2cs and place maaaRea u
fling over his shoulder.
Mary Brown blushed more deeply
and nodded more Vigorously
The bus shot forward again, and
withdrawing from the smiling SYM
pathy of her fellow-travelers, she reSo-
iutely turned her scarlet face 10 the
window and studied the Landscape.
Already tomorrow lo 9n1 af large am N
the day after that, perhaps: She
wished she had her Easter costume
now. and the ravishing blouse to wear
with it They were going to tra tSa
same train was that quite proper?
We'll, she really didn't care whether
it was proper or not. She like him,
and what was more important, ne
seemed to like her. On the way over
about her looks, and said he hadn't
noticed when first he saw her staring
into the shop window how pretty she
was. Perhaps it was having taken OH
her hat, he said He thought her hair
The next afternoon and the next
found Mary Brown sitting at one OF
the little tables on the terrace OF tne
Cafe de Paris, in Monte Carlo. trying
to look unconcerned with copy OF
the Continental Daily Mail and cup
Of chocolate to keep her company;
The first day e. well, there might
have been some reason why ne
couldn't come. The second, she was SO
Illuminated that she felt she could
never look the world in the face again.
Perhaps it wasn't true that he was
going to England on the same tram,
But II it was true, she knew the tone
she would take if she happened to
run into him. She would give him the
him too plainly how cruelty he had
lieutenant Chambers Oick to her
no longer) had behaved as though ne