Show F WOMEN Ne rr Cl Cloud ud Lifts as Our ur Sleeping Beauty Slumbers On casting a single glance at t tor of or us Hamilton went grit Eight g up up to tho the motionless body of or girl girl he ha had married Daddy jimer imer stammered bit his lip and r silent I suppose he was curious ob and I certainly were to hear lieal t kl kind of an e explanation p or r dlag- dlag I I Dr Would offer oHer u WI c I Your Tour daughter is not dying Mr 1 lr Lorimer Be assured of that I teis said after going through the the form of an examination I tI believe there is no inherited nervous taint in the history of oJ your family I asked the question of Daddy but he shot a swift glance at poor Bob who certainly had added a grand grandI blot to tho the health rec record rd of the family amly Daddy merely shook his head as ashe ashe I he said Bobs shell shock was of course an an accident in irl the Lorimer history Then C went vent on I believe Mr 1 Lorimer that your daughter is suffering buffering from some curious separation of oJ the soul from tho body It is like like the condition your our son was Jn In when he came home from tho the war It is fa several d degrees grees worse that is all You aro arc deceiving ing us Dadd Daddy shou shouted shouted ed He always shouts when he is s. s s angry You know well enough what has happened t to o my daughter The Tho girl has has- been put to to sleep by that creature you c call 11 Donna I Camilla Bring the woman here Let her undo what she sho has done I Dr flushed but he answered answered answered an an- very quietly I have been describing a condi condl- I tion Lion Mr 1 Lorimer Your da daughters daughter's I soul has deserted her body for a time I regret that I cannot summon Donna Camilla She took the thc night train for Mexico City I When Then get the poor girl out of this yourself demanded Daddy I shook his head I Impossible I I havo have not tho the skill to break the spell which has chilled her But I intend to keep her alive You can trust me me he said looking at me in an odd way as if It to tell mo me that h he hd intended to be nice nico for my I II sake I Thereafter for da days s 's and days dars our I life lire at the hacienda was centered I around the bed where lay the sleeping sleepIng sleeping sleep- sleep I Ing beauty Often Onen as I looked at ather ather j her I wished for a 80 real prince Inc one i quite worthy of her to come front from a afar J I II far tar land and waken her her and and make j i I I her happy ever ever afterward I I her happy ever ever afterward I I I was honest I I suppose when he asserted that ho dared not arouse I her from the spell which held her i He gave her every care as he had promised to do Fortunately for tl the J i outcome of the affair world events changed s so that both ho and Don I Manuel were always alwa's at the hacienda I Quite suddenly the war war cloud which I had been gathering along th the Rio Grande was dissolved or at least I its shadow was was removed from the j I earth for awhile Daddy had this this' news by special special mess messenger mier Even In that remote remote emote Mexican hacie hacienda da ev even under the j I Secret e r t. t surveillance e of our foreign born I host the Hon James D. D Lorimer i I I m managed to keep in touch with world I events This proved to me once more more that the ch cheerful erful clumsy manI man mani 1 i I called D Daddy so familiarly was was' i actually a man of tremendous imI importance importance im im- I on the globe I too was one of the worlds world's important pers personages n ge He had played I a a a stupendous part in International affairs for a dozen years ears His activities j ties had not been of a kind to display in any column of current events but I they were destined to be chronicled i conspicuously In the history of of his time l' l lI I And some day some inquisitive historian with a mind moving g ac according according according ac- ac cording to Freud would set out to find who vho was the unknown woman I who had been adored by the greatest of all Intern international spies I was that woman It seemed most I absurd I An And j some day the historians ns would world write that the unknown had thwarted thwarted and and ruin ruined ruined ruined-a d a a remarkable though most detestable career She had divided the mans man's interest in his political schemes and thus she had prevented at least one war Growing thus imaginative and nd morbid I ru rushed hed to find Bob I I To be continued |