Show REVELATIONS OF A WIFE wily THOUGHTS OP OF nICK DICKY CAMi TO MADGH I. AT T P Tim D SIDE I wonder If It she's dead I dont don't dare daro look 1001 Curso Curse you ou get Set do don n n there thero Dont Don't you ou daro dare to move even an eyelash eye eyo- lash again lain Will Ill I be able to hold out Ive I've got ot to hold out out got cot ot to get bet her there The words fell toll from the wounded of officers officer's ot- ot 1 fleer's lips hips in a n. hurried monotone Ov OVer O r rand and over o again he repeat repeated cd them in the tho delirium which was as sapping hi his strength Even tho the oath wita which he addressed the tho fi figure of oC Ernest which ho lie imagined still crouching be before bo- bo fore Core him 1181 no especial emphasis It was the lie weirdest droning muttering muttering- imaginable and I hadn't listened to it long before beCore I felt that to sta stay much longer in this room would be bo an unendurable Unendurable unendurable un un- endurable thing thins But the feeling was mere mero physical ll cravenness All 11 that was decent and and grateful in mo me rose roso to combat it it to nerve myself to Lo tho the task for which the ph physicians had sent for or inc me The They had been glad indeed when Lillian Lil Lii- lian Han had conveyed to them m my willingness willing willing- ness to go to tho the sick room without walling waiting for or the lie degree desree of ot strength which the they set ns as being requisite for the task to be Imposed upon me And they had rushed mo inc to tho the sick sickroom sickroom sickroom room of the wounded officer that m my face might be tho the first thing he saw when he awoke to one of oC the time semi semi- lucid Intervals als which were becoming perilously rare as tho the days dt's wont on Lillian had told mo me that even en In his periods of or the officer officer cor was worrying wOrrill about me sure that I had b been n terribly hurt It It was to combat combat com corn bat this hys hysterical notion that I 1 was seated at his bedside listening to his delirious utterances HI lib Forehead A nurse whose fair t fac tN M l have havo served as a model for an artists artist's conception of a beautiful sunn sallU i. i u.- u. i above e her hor patient scrutinizing him closel closely Then she turned her head bend to tome tome me Inc looking looking- at mo me fixedly It was a n. full Cull minute half before I comprehended tho the reason for or her scrutiny realized ed that she wish wished cd me mc to do something but could not tell mo rae orall orally for fear of oC disturbing die dis the tho man on the tho bed I gathered myself C together tog and let m my eyes answer hers bers with Intelligence Then she reached out her hand and witha with witha a a- a gesture showed e 1 me that lint she wished mo me to tale take In mine the restless fingers of the muttering sick man I Y obeyed her repressing with difficulty cult culty a start at the burning burning- heat of tho time twitching fin fingers that I clasped in m my left len hand which was nearest him The muttering stopped topped for tor a R. second or tw two and th the hot restless s fingers In gelS gel'S wore were stilled Then Therm the tho voice began besan again but more slowly and with I longer spaces between the words The nurse raised her herself cautiously with her fear of disturbing her patient patient pa pa- tient o evidently somewhat lessened She bent to Jn my car ear Stroke his forehead sho ho murmured In n the br murmur which only onh onha a good trained nurse or an arm actress ca can effect In almost an any other circumstances I should have has felt pre eminently foolish at this command But there was something some somo- thins thing about this helpless wounded man manto manto manto to whom I owed m my life and Hbert liberty liberty- which called for tor an any service ser I could render him Still holding his fingers ers closely I slipped to lo m my knees be beside the bed for tor forin forin torin in that posture I could best besl perform the service cr the nurse had batt asked o of me mc an and 1 with my right hand began stroking tho the thick brown hair back from rom his hot forehead The hack back part of ot hi head was swathed in ban bandages ag but and his face were unscathed and I 1 had bad an opportunity lt to stud study his hi features fea lea turcs tures closely But m my eyes ees were weme so blurred with sudden m mist 1st that I could hardly see sec seethe seethe the tho face that had so stirred b by Imagination Imagination Imag Imag- and m my gratitude For as m my hand touched his forehead in ny my y m memory em o ry-cru ry cruelly ci ly faithful went faithful a I t went i-went went back to the many man many times tims I had hM smoothed Dicky's headaches away In Inthis Inthis inthis this same caine manner Where J rt Ii Is Dicky Where was m my husband now and what was he do doing In r- r The excuse of or illustrations ions for tor an aviation serial w which he had given me hadn't convinced me mc His us words and his lis actions when had told me nie of or his proposed trip with only a suit ca case e which might take weeks perhaps months had shrouded with an air of or mystery I couldn't help but feel resentful re resentful re- re when I thought of them Another thought the thought the old tormenting one this one this time w with Ith a a. new angle stabbed stabbed stab stab- bed me Again I was forced to contrast the tIle attitude of my husband toward his country countr with that of another man Continued Tomorrow |