Show I o. o o II 00 I 1919 by I I I CHAPTER Bitt Bitter r Thoughts Flash Through My Mind as I Flee From the Lorimer Home I The glare of the arc arc lights in the Lorimer park flashed past the streetcar streetcar streetcar street street- car window and left a photo I of the great white house printed sharply on the little cameras within my eyes I closed my lids partly to keep back the tears partly to shut out the pic pic- pic ture In a certain room of that splendid mansion from which I was i I I I i I I fleeing my husband slept His slumber slum slum- slumber slum slum-I ber bel was quite untroubled by an andream any dream of his wife while I whom he Ih h had d promised to cherish was huddled In the corner of a suburban trolley car in the dark darl of a January night bound for the Land of ot Lost Women for tor all that he cared Bob would woul never protect me again It was a I bitter thought but Just exactly which a runaway woman would harass he her soul with I shivered with cold Never Kever in a amy all I my life before had I been out o of doors alone at 3 o'clock in the morning morn morn- Ing Neither had any girl I ha had ever known And neither would an any of my girl friends dare to do what I had planned Not a single one o of them would abandon the comfort an and elegance and ease of the Lorimer house and set out as I was doing fo foNo for forNo forNo No Womans Woman's Land They would all al think me crazy when the news came cam out I Maybe l you ou are crazy Jane Lorimer Lorimer Lorimer Lori Lori- mer I said to myself or a fool Then I had to explain eX to myself and I pitied myself ana and cried as I Imade Imade made my impulse clear to myself Bob did not love me any more There was little hope that he would ever love me again Dr au au- au- au it e t- t e t- t I g the Ie e la Ia e- e ca a r- r all alt ll It on the brain and nerves had said so Bob had put me out of his I mind by bY his own choice had suppressed sup sup- I pressed all of his emotions about me when the concussion of sa a a bursting shell had jarred his his' mental gears tAnd And like a curse descending upon him all memory of or me as his wife I was shut away from him perhaps him perhaps forever Ills His wish was father to the sad fact I was convinced and that was my chief hurt Bob might have been Injured in a thousand other ways Lame halt or blind I would have slaved for him But in In this one chance of a million he had been re responsible responsible responsible re- re at t the e outset He lie had re returned returned returned re- re turned to t tie the e normal in every way f I I j but ut this or obviously he would not note t. no-t. be e kept lit ift active service Well it was not me to claim what was no longer mine it was not notor forr or me to share that splendid home Why it was only the shell of my dead ead happiness Bob Dob would remain there for about three days I could not force myself to o see him again I could not let him tre treat real t me his wife with only the ordinary ordinary nary ary courtesy due to a guest in his fathers father's house above all I could not rEturn to that boy and boy and girl comradeship comradeship comrade- comrade ship to that platonic I stage tage of ot love which had preceded our engagement From Irom the few words we had ex exI exchanged exchanged ex- ex changed I knew that Bob had placed me on that old familiar and once de delightful de- de ground To me rn me It would prove a dangerous quicksand j de-j I knew very well weil that my disappearance disappearance would cause a commotion in I the h Lorimer house but it was not probable that my flight would be discovered much before noon Then rhen mother would suppose that I was only keeping away from Bob However as soon as they were convinced that I had run away daddy would have hae all the police pollee and private detective forces of the country on my tn trail jL Where could I go to hide successfully successfully success success- I fully |