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Show L j Confessions of j A War Bride CHAPTER XLIX. I Me a Way ta Save My Country at Great Cost. L'erteta Is restrained by nature and by training. His eyes had sometimes told me that his old love for me had never died, but he had kept a eucoeaaful watch iiMin hs tongue evr since my wedding. What forced an avowal now? Had my escape frm U-boat frlghtfulneaa un- nered hlniT -r did Hamilton Certela realise that I must know him now to be a German spy? Thsf T mus'r belie veh is 'estate to be I'-boat baae? That 1 must have observed ob-served the homage paid him by the (T-boat (T-boat chief, ami from It must conclude that Certels was sn exslted pereonage In the Hun bureau of espionage? Could he Imagine that a dramatic love acene would make me forget my suspicions? suspi-cions? I was not afraid of Certela In the way I had feared Ihe submarine's caplaiii. -but wtlh these aerrets in my posseseion. I doubtless faced new d Angers. Apparently. 1 was on the way to be "a figure of international in-ternational tnifsortanoe." Certela loved me. with an Intensity possible pos-sible only to a remarkable man. And because be-cause he loved nie, I held his fortune and bia future In my hand. 1 had fallen upon an extraordinary way to serve my countryor coun-tryor history was a poor teacher. rouhtless, I could play with thta man's soul if would forget the honor of a war bride. ;ood women of France and i of Belgium had destroyed their enemy ao. j And I. who hnd risked my life to save a transport would -I hesitate lo make Ihe supreme sacrifice to save my country from a nest of spies? Two days ago I would have held out my hand to tha man In a frank way which charms him snd answered his confession with. "Friends. Tony, that's all ' spy. i managed, however, an entirely truthful truth-ful statement: "Tony, for saving me tonight, f owe you much but not mr love. Iwn't think me ungrateful If I remind you that before be-fore I married, yoo promised never to while, f must ssk y mi not to tell a olngie aoul nf what has happened." "Mrs, Chepin la the only one here now who has a right to ask she will be wild With curiosity." "I will tame her. As a physician, 1 will order you lo bed and no talking." This plan suited my own purpose admirably. ad-mirably. Mra Chapln waa hardly the ner-Oft In whom I could confide a secret of state liTitoriance. iTo be continued.) Copyright. Wis. by the Newspaper En-t En-t erpri so A snocla t Ion. spesa or tove io jne agntn. "Forgive me for letting myself go. Jeanne. Your danger, thia last hour, un- j nerved me." "You realise, Tony, that I am crammed with questions? How did you know where j I waa hidden? Luke couldn't tell you ! thaC" j "An npyn host, on a frigid Atlantic, j In the dark of an autumn moon Is hardly , the place for auch a tremendous eiplana- I tinn. ts tt? Tomorrow, we will talk Mean- 1 |