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Show He paused and looked Inquiringly Patrick nodded. He did not speak. I knew that no more than I would he have interrupted the flow of that story. Doctor Marden went on. My wife threw herself into war work too. For four years she worked daily at the American Ambulance in Neuilly. Eleanor now I had better tell you perhaps about Eleanor. Eleanor was a natural nurse. She never took a course in nursing, but I taught her everything I knew. She volunteered when I did and the French sent her to at Patrick. the hospital at She stayed there for about a year. 1 saw her only at irregular intervals. I had an occasional permission from the front and then she and my wife and I would try to manage a reunion at our home in Paris. But I did not see much of Eleanor during the first months of the war. I went through what many husbands were going through in France then. I saw my wife getting more and more fatigued nervously exhausted. But Eleanor stood up to it marvelously. But every time I saw her, it seemed to me that she had become more of a woman, more and more beautiful. Then Ace Blaikie appeared in her life. Again Doctor Marden came to a pause and now he did not cover his face with his hands. He presented, unscreened, the hard bitter eyes, the tight-shlips; the setness of every line and curve. I know that you, Mrs. Avery, are acquainted with the factors of Ace Blaikies war experience because Ive heard you discuss them Courey-sur-Sein- Continued '8SDAY J, pocket and another and another. he keep a pencil." bed toto one ,r 5 ttd in the direction of my I could reach it, how-J- S Harden had offered sr a fountain pen. S lumself a moment Patrick or two handed the pen back. tterncS you very much. Doctor inene 1 won't detain you any dy to nrii jen. quire; stitch jr the way. Doctor Patrick reached into by "-- et again Mar-hrng- his you recognize do i pattern or coU.rKarden answered InstantSew Ves " to you? Dept, jo it belong Yo es." ew our r, Then did you last see it. last time I noticed it was i nurbtle to go i put on my slippers - masquerade. It's one of a OSIW.jf old paste buckles that I are ry some I, ST 1 It that the hi you ) : years ago in Paris. night any idea where you n the 'H" bar11 fought it must have dropped off ;r, -, Bt alk I took. It seems to unksifat had it been lost in the i crec" I would have noticed it -- y beshs su make any attempt to he vc a. up very early Sun- - es. I got T morning and j took, to see avices went over the if I could find pry,:; nd sra. berna'r ent you think that that iec als suspicious? ce Ser erhaps. But I suppose 1 might would ,thmk that whether it looked or not would depend on "lug in the community tton for decency and hon-- l perfectly willing to ad- I didnt want to be in- I I witness in this case. j I did not want to get into HLftover, the buckle is an one. It is part ely valuable donelYoi ; Kt and although that was flooB f vbjw of the great tragedy, 'P0 tenentous importance, it was onteteuf anteed- -' Importance. I guess edarproc feU," Patrick decided, jiH be all Marden arose. He bowed ''f'Jtrick; came over to my side; hi rver my hand. Dear la- I cannot tell you id, I think of you in these days. in his voice brought again. Then xk, hght step, he started .,47 my eyes j -n ri Doctor Marden, his last worn, "I shall to ask you not to leave the 1 give you permission. Jive you my word I shall not faith t' ind m hl dare d, afraid, tk said Right ;rstand jit. Patrick said in a tone, It all makes sense. have a perfect design fat, Margaret next, then No one of them seems ft told anything but the truth. , t B dying to tell the truth. woukl only lie, maybe the answer. Of course , tot k r ciogi? aid she thought she fdebactt:!orrielhlnS stirring in the is, in?', harden apparently noticed hke that Now there may I another person involved Dumber. For that matter, t Fairweather may have and Oh, 1 dont know d Ace Blaikie. Im no mowing than I was SaturMary, , n's that? back 01 mind octor Marden drive lfc back of my mind I 'T !?(8fnd motor turn Into the Sbj,ped Presently a hght ough the hall s. e? t than kl'T Y hVmS -- 01 rooma ht stiffened by ation, come back to teU you the story, Mr. OBrien, if Larden. I havent told U yet! P 'ffitaii- we all three Ife" -- t ,isonou8 "til'1' 5 Eft inty ,rh.r fcy filing ook Up Voice from hS m, trr. of. duffer I piSTf VJ. f ; sat you, he story had ever something that a great sur' 9pausedas teough ,bl ateength for the "Ace Blailue is the fa' fanddaughter Caro ..re irtnm In as teough for a jmmentfrom us. - er nor 1 tetement had great a si'Peak Paralysis for or move. baek it came Ve7 her i course to about I will r rvriage- - My woinan. about forty years ago, she was a widow. She had been widowed twice and both times under tragic conditions. Her first husband, Theodore Prentiss, also a New Yorker, was thrown from his horse a month after their marriage. He died instantly. She became the mother of his posthumous child a boy, Theodore Prentiss. Five years later, she married again Addison Dacre. He too was a New Yorker. While they were traveling in France, he died in Paris of a case of pneumonia. She was pregnant at the time and the shock brought on the premature birth of a little girl who was to be named Eleanor Dacre. I was established as a physician in Paris and I was called in on the case. This was immediately after the funeral I never met Addison Dacre. MrS. Dacre was a beautiful woman a very lovely woman. I felt that if the child died, her very reason would go. I threw myself heart and soul into saving that premature little waif and I did save her. I took care of her for months. Of course that constant attendance brought Mrs. Dacre and me very close. By the time Eleanor was a year old, we realized that life meant nothing to either of us without the other. Six months later we were married quietly in Paris. My practice was there and we have lived In Paris, except for our holidays, ever since. My wife died two years ago and, after I had a little recovered from my grief, I decided to return to America. But I am running ahead of my story. I must go back to Eleanor. There could not possibly ever have lived a more lovely child than Eleanor. And when I use the word lovely, I use it advisedly. She was lovely in face and figure; lovely In heart and spirit. I adored her. A beautiful child, Eleanor grew to be a beautiful woman. I do not think that this is prejudice. Everywhere, her appearance made a sensation. That was not entirely due to her beauty perhaps. It was partly her coloring. It was the most delicate blonde I have ever seen ethereal. Often Mrs. Marden and I discussed the proper adjective to apply to Eleanor. She was not angelic nor seraphic nor cherubic. She was too tall to be fairy-likShe was sprite-like- . Her hair was the palest gold, her features what we used to call mignonne, her eyes deeply violet The French always stared at her and in Spain and Italy she created such a sensation that she did not like to go out on the street alone. She had courage enough, e. as I could get leave, I took my wife and daughter to Spain. He paused. For an instant he bit his lower l.p as though to fang out of it the emotion which mane it tremble. There my daughter killed y- "Presently Eleanor found herself pregnant She told me afterward that there was nothing in the world she wanted so much as to bear a child. It was several months after this discovery before she saw Ace Blaikie. At their first meeting, she told him that she was going to make their marriage public. She could see, as she told me subsequently, that Ace Blaikie was appalled at this discovery. He tried to get her to withdraw from the hospital and go to America. And if not to America, to Italy or Spain. Eleanor steadily refused. Finally, she told him if he gave her no help, she must apply to me that the marriage must be announced. Thereupon, he told her that she was, in reality, not married at alL That, a few years before, he had secretly married in the United States an actress by the name of Drina Demoyne Drina Demoynel I interrupted. Ive seen Drina Demoyne. Why, what was it I read about her just the other day? She died recently. Yes, Doctor Marden answered. "Her death has a great bearing on this story. That revelation of Ace Blaikies was really Eleanors death warrant She never saw him with again. But she communicated and me once. I got a permission came back from the front She told me the whole story. My wife and I had but one idea to save Eleanors reputation. Now it hapson by her pened that my wifes first marriage, Theodore Prentiss, rewas living during the war in a France. southern in mote village Do You Recognize That? He volunteered for both the French but she hated the little Incidents and American armies. But he had he which occurred here and there always been an invalid and solas a that either used not will be say not I could the way. along Eleanor was an angel, although dier or in any civilian capacity. wife was she was a kind of modern angeL He was married and his to them. She was too vigorous to suggest pregnant I sent Eleanor wife died bringing a that sort of thing. But she was My step-son- s Theosweet dead child into the world. months. absolutely honest. She was six only her her survived We worshiped dore She was kind. bore a In the meantime, Eleanor my wife and L she whom healthy baby Doctor Marden came to a full perfectlyCaroline after my wife. Thin his named over Bestop. He put his hand was the Caro whom you know. eyes and sank back into the past la uggested Theodore he fore he died, Presenty with a deep sigh it out We regcarried We plan. of La.try emerged into the present again. istered her in the Marie When the war came, I enlisted Blaikie. We registered Caroline mediAmerias volunteer in the French under that name as an consulofMar-sc- , cal service. I will say here that her the with medical family, so to can citizen, that she we are lies. I can show you was over, passport her on name speak. Before the war Marden bears that friends in Pans there were a half dozen But we told all her Unitthe When in France. them everslneelhat working told have and child. A soon ed States came in, I was transshe was Theodores ferred tor the American service. her- Neither Patrick nor I made comWindsor's Finances. He himself made no further comment When we returned to SANTA MONICA, CALIF. Paris, however, there was never reports, the duke any question of Eleanors not be- of Windsor must start life as ing Theodore Prentiss's child Caroline Prentiss. And so she grew a married man reduced to a up. She has no more idea of her personal estate of only about relationship to Ace than you had $600,000, plus guaranteed anbefore I told you this story. As nual remittances amounting she is a minor, 1 got her passport to but a beggarly $100,000 She has never seen it Concealing her real name from more. To be sure, as the old saying Is, Caro has been one of the minor troubles of my life. But Ive ac- two can live as cheaply as one if complished it I brought her up one of the two hapin Pans, as you know. But as pens to be a goldshe grew older, I wondered about fish or even a caher forbears in America. I knew nary but otherwise that people thought of Ace Blaikie the notion hasnt as a rich man. I knew that he had worked out under modern conditions, property in Satuit Massachusetts. I began to wonder if, as he grew wives these days older, he would not want his only being what wives child if only child she were to in- are these days. Still, they do say herit that property. At first I put this thought out of my mind. But Mrs. Simpson is pretty handy with a skillet, which, on the cooks Thursdays off, ought to save getting In extra kitchen help; and what with there being no crowro jewels to keep polished and installment houses just crying to help all young honeymoon-er- s out you furnish the bird, we furnish the nest! Well, by scrimping, the couple should get by, don't you think? ment Jm Re Took Up Again. His Story kept recurring. It troubled me. I finally found it was keeping me awake nights. Sleepless nights began to recur a little too often. I made inquiries and found that Ace Blaikie was not only accepted as a bachelor but that nobody knew that he had ever been married. Ultimately I decided to come to the United States, to establish myself at Satuit. It made things easy for me because I had never met Ace Blaikie. In the war somebody started calling Eleanor Sister Dora,' after an old novel, the heroine of which was a nurse. I confess I have never read it Ace Blaikie never called her anything but Sister Dora, Although Eleanors name was Dacre, the name of Marden might of course linger in Ace Blaikies mind. Still, as I saic. before, there had been at least half a dozen physicians named Marden working in Paris during the war. Last spring, as you both know, I came here to Satuit I met Ace Blaikie socially, of course, although I made no effort to meet him, Caros name was neither his nor mine. If the coincidence of a physician from Pans by the name of Marden gave him pause, he did not let me know it He may have thought of me only as one of the Marden connection in Paris. In the meantime I studied my man. I found that he was engaged to be married to a beautiful, charming and estimable young girL That girl became Caros most devoted friend. I confess to you I did not know what to do. If he married, Ace Blaikie was likely to have children. In the matter of inheirs heritance, his legitimate would of course take precedence over Caro. And the last tiling in the world I wanted for Caros sake was a scandaL I let the summer drift by in a weltei of indecision. He paused I13 HcUSCWhf UrM ICC t self. so often. And besides, I reminded him, my husband was in France. Well then, I will merely say that it was while he was in the Foreign Legion that he met Eleanor. It seemed to have been a case of love at first sight. Certainly with Eleanor. And as she afterward told, me, Doctor Blaikie said it was so with him. But when it comes to Doctor Blaikie and love The expression on Doctor Mar-den- 's face deepened so horribly that it was as though the blood behind the flesh had turned to ink. he did not know really what love was. On that side he was not man but beast. At any rate they met as often as his permissions and hers allowed. What happened of course was that Ace Blaikie discovered that in order to possess my daughter, he must offer her mar- Then Doctor Mar-den- s riage. Understand voice shot to us a perempit Understand that this tory order. was not a subject that Eleanor would discuss with any man. He had to learn that to sense it And he was apparently extremely acute in sensing the reactions of the other sex. At any rate they were married secretly. That was before the United States came in. It was in the summer of 1915. I will not go into all the ins and outs of this. I will say only that marriage in France is a very complicated matter. Ace Blaikie had made friends with a French officer who had a long pull He fixed it so that Ace and Eleanor were married secretl- AROUND again and seemed reminiscently to survey that long direful period. Then he took up his story again. And then Drina Demoyne died. The newspaper accounts of her career said that she had married but once to an actor, Allan Banks. This was before the war. They said that once the two separated for a few years, but were never divorced. Subsequently, they came together again and lived together until Miss Demoyne died. She left him all her property. I have In my possession Banks affidavit that he never was divorced from Drina Demoyne. Ace had mistakenly thought he committed bigamy in marrying my daughter but Drina Demoyne had actually committed bigamy in marrying him. That changed the whole complexion of affairs. Caro was no longer iUigitimate that Is. provided Ace Blaikie had married no other woman. She was the heir to his estate. (TO BE COSTIXI'ED) Washington Rumors. do float about HOW rumors in the neighborhood of Washington. Well, Washington always has been kind of a windy place. First we hear a boom Is to be started for Mrs. Roosevelt to succeed the President at the conclusion of his term. This is promptly denied and the question arises how Is that loyal soul. Uncle Jim Farley, going to stand the strain of waiting until Sistie Dahl gets old enough to run? Uncontradicted as yet Is the other report that the White House craves to revive the NRA, under another set of initials and let us hope with a better-lookin- g Blue Eagle than that first one was. Sweeping Inquiries. every major disaster conceivably was preventable, we have a sweeping init quiry or a "searching probe depends on which phrase the reporters like best to fix the blame. Rarely does anything come of this, but it must indeed be a great consolation to the widows and the orphans of the victims. Seemingly, it never occurs to anyone to make the said investigation before the tragedy occurs, with a view of searching out defective mechanism or imperfect construction then. We are a great people for shutting the stable door after the horse is gone shutting it good and tight so the probers may have leisure for their probing. AFTER Defying a Glacier. ALASKA, the Revell family are defying Black Rapids glacier which, without seeming provocation and after remaining perfectly calm for several million years, suddenly started coming down upon them, rumbling and roaring and acting up generally as it advances. Its Icy snout is only about a mile away from their roadhouse now, but theyre still serving ye olde blue plate special choice of jcllo or stewed prunes as usuaL The Revells couldnt be New York people. In New York, everybody strives to move at least once every two years, whether theres reason for it or not. A lady flat dweller there likes the scriptural promise of a house of many mansions because it gives her such a warm glow to think of spending eternity shifting from one mansion to another, redecorating as she goes. Crime and Punishment. trial in New York ATforA arecent hideous murder, the lawyer for the killer who, incidentally, has confessed wound up his plea y with this old and reliable and logical standby: Putting this man in the electric chair will never bring back the woman he slew remember that, Gentlemen of the jury. But putting a brutal killer In the electric chair will never bring him back either, which, after all, is the main idea, isnt it. Gentlemen of any rational jury? IRVIN 8. COBB. Rug3 should be turned around enough to get into shape then every six months. Frequent turn- roll into a very thin sheet, stamp ing causes them to wear evenly. out with cutters, or cut into rectangular pieces with a sharp Coddled Apples Two cups boil- knife, prick with a fork, and bake ing water, one or two cups sugar, a delicate brown. V.NU Service. eight apples. Make a syrup of minsugar and water, boiling five utes. Core and pare apples; cook slowly in the syrup ; cover closely and watch carefully. 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