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Show ) j I Confessions of I A War Bride ' CHAPTER 97. j Jimmy Agrt to Hunt Bund Trat ura AfUr Awhila. j . Jimmy boy ! k"'" to prov a cau- j tioiia treiimire hunter. Not thnt he nidile fun of my theory about the sunken sun-ken I'-ho.it' c-tft-K" vt Kftnn; on the j .ht!iirv. he jtleilKt'U himself gaily to j Kit- Kral nlveni lire. Now tlmt th war 1h over. hln utay In the air aervlce la i iiMlefirift". Anil he hhvm thnt It'a a Knod thlntr 1 have a Job with thrill! ! rea.ty for im. Tho relatives nnrl j ftlpiil of about half a million aoldler Ih, h bbvi, are Rolnir to have itobe of trouble provbltnn excitement enough to mitt their returning heroen. liut nn he mocked me the ,rlniera are . -4wy trr neve t ilwrie, with hei wett--known prudence and fnrcaight, pro- J vbltnsT a way to inuke hia own return ! i tu clvilliin life tolerable! j Jim eald thut he will he perfectly wthina to rHle eubmarlne. or a-1 pi ore I them, or blow them up. at my a com- I maiul, aa noon aa he ftet luen 'mtiftt ( 1 ttft"ln- Hut. rrm he la nt preaent an 1 lair aervbe officer, ther are dlfflcul- tlea. lie pointed them out to me In a ! lonir talk ufter the TbanknRlvlus din- j i ner In New York. And, by the way. Mother Ixrlmer'a I I Idea of a Thankaaivfnff feaet this year' would aetoniah many houaewlvea who j I think that money and peace make an i i excuse for an extravagant table. , t.uldy called our dinner 'earlv coin- ! Ul." heeanee U www almple. Mother 1 inaiata that even our fenet lnv muxt I be k-pt in the aplrtt of aavn food 1 I for the nation who have none but nhe never meiitlona Oermnny amonit tho needv! Our oWn city la In the Ihrofn nf a food aavtna; campHlgn mother he! pa to mauairc It and ahe t anya hr amk begina right at home. J Our 'hrlatnuia feaat, ah wnrna ua. WUI he ua mm) eat ea thla one. 1 After tllnncr. which waa aerved In I the dining room of a eplendld prl- ! Vite null" In the Hotel Victory. I aur- t I prieeii Jim Jr. with my atory of the : tref-Miro ahip. I "Of rourae. I Van a coot around and ' locate the craft according to your acrap i i of paper," he agreed. "But I don't be- ItPtw the aea will he ainooth enough lo reveal any accrete to a flying man for tnontha and month. "I tut we are not the only peraon a after It! What If somebody geta there' f'rKt?" I aupMee I did lok awfully difHpptiinteJ. 4t Jim a poke quickly: ' ,sii. you ought to "go into bual-t neaa for yonraelf. You wanf to do i evervthllig the miitiite jon think of j it. Hut Juat reniem)er that iutb'dv I cmi go treaaure hunting off thla nil ore , ,-tt preneut without bringing the cuaat j patrol down on theni In a Jiffy'" "liut -maylie the auid ill rover It I up before tprhttc'" I w tilled, like a (tolled child. "That hie ahoutd worry the other ! fellow- -we've committed the chart to memory. " Then Jim added .that he couldn't very well bomb the aturf, any- ! uy, even to prevent It from paying 1 for Hun propaganda the plane he J i UMea are not et nipped with depth t j ttomba --and he laughed aa he e- pl.'ttned and an a government a v tutor j he couldn't bomb anything ar nil wUh- j out Arder. "So we II Juat have to aalvage the i tuff for ou, ata. my dear' In the ' apriug we'll dig up that nifty atrtng j of ierl for you' i In the "pring? ' Where will the spring J find me? I Divorced, perhaps, and no more aa j ooatrHl with my dearly beloved kid ' brother-in-law. (To ie continued. Copyright. lli, by Newapaper Enter- j prise Aasociation. I |