Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1924 — Page 8

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CHAPTEFi I The Shadow of War m m ARY FURNIVAL was knitting khaki socks. ■ The September sunshine, piercing the lace curtains, shone on her quiet face and the flying needles in her/white fingers. From the curled-up position in a corner of the couch, Dolly Bretherton watched her with concealed impatience. Dolly could not have knitted socks had her life depended on it: she had f lade one or two attempts, and had given it up in despair. The stitches would drop from between her pretty, useless-looking fingers, and the wool get entangled; but she envied Mary Furnival’s quiet capability as she sat there in the afternoon sunshine, placidly adding row upon row of the buff-colored wool. In the middle of turning a heel, she looked up. afid met Doily's eyes queried. Dolly frowned. “I suppose you think that I ought to be making socks, too?” She submitted. half-resentfully. Mary' Furnival laughed, a laugh that ended with a sigh. “I wasn't thinking anything of the sort; I was just wondering if—if Nigel will ever come back.” The words seemed to escape before she realized their import: she broke off hurriedly, and. leaning over, caught Dolly’s hand. "Oh. I am so sorry, dear! I ought not to have said that. Os course he will come back.” There was a little silence. Doilyhad flushed up to the roots of her hair; her left hand —the one that bore Nigel Bretherton’s wedding-ring, opened and shut convulsively over the folds of her frock. The half-finished sock had fallen from Mary's lap to the floor; Dolly

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looked down at it, and a little shiver shook her. Nigel had been one of the first to answer his country’s call, and since then every one had been so good to her. They had all taken it for granted that she must be heart-broken at parting with him; they- had all been so sorry for her. That had been the hardest part of it all—the having to pretend, to eternally act. and keep them all blind to the horrible truth that Nigel had been glad to go; that for the last few months of their married life he and she had been unwilling prisoners chained together, each straining at the bondage holding them. It had been a mistaken marriage for which she now- knew she alone had been to blame. CHAPTER II Dolly ’s Love StoryLooking back to that April morning eighteen months ago, it all seemed such a foolish, stupid blunder. She had hated her life of nursery governess to a couple of spoilt, un

“YOU ALL SEEM DETERMINED THAT I SHALL GO ON PRETENDING.” manageable children; she had hated their mother, a haughty, unsympathetic. nouveau riche: and, most of all. she had hated the unkind freak of fortune that had made Robert Durham a poor man. All her life she had lived amongst poverty—the genteel, hard-to-bear kind of povert’y which struggles so hard to keep up appearance—and her soul shrank from perpetuating it by marriage with Robert Durham. She loved him; loved him as well as It was in her to love any man. and y-et she could not face the prospect of a stuccoed villa and a small income for the rest of her life. And then one golden April evening Nigel Bretherton had opened the schoolroom door and walked into her life. ->he could recall it all so plainly now, though it was eighteen months ago; see him as she had seen him then—tall, and good to look upon, with the quick admiration in his eyes as they rested on her face. He had come to the schoolroom often after that. and. by the time she had found out that he was a well-to-do younger son with prospects, he had proposed. They were married in less than a month; he explained that there was nothing to wait for. I haven t any people except a brother who's been living In South Africa for a couple of years, and probably will never come hack. He's a good deal older than I am. and came hack from a hooeymoon of disillusionment and petty disagreements, with all the remainder of their lives in which to repent at leisure. • • * Doliy had discovered many things during that brief honeymoon. the most Important of which was the fact that she would never care for any man half so well as she had cared for Robert Durham: the next in Importance being that her husband was perfectly conscious of the fact that he had married a woman beneath his own station In life. The Bretherton's of Little Hejpton were "somebodies,” even though the old mansion which had been theirs for centuries had been let for some years, a fact w-hich Dojly resented. She would have liked to be the lady of the manor; she would have liked to live amongst blue-bloo<ied memories and portraits of ancestors. One day she said so to Nigel. But he only laughed. "The ojd place belongs to David.” he said. "I suppose I shall get it In the end. but you’ll have to wait.” He took a charming flat for her in Kensington, but Dolly could not forget the pictures she had seen of the Red Grange. "Why is it let?” she insisted irritably. “Why don't you live there?” Nigel frowned. "It's David's, as long as he's alive: I told you that; and when he was ordered abroad for his health, he thought it best to let the old plaoe. I couldn't have lived there alone. I should have gone melancholy mad.” “We could entertain, If he would let us live there.” Nigel flushed. “The fact is." he said desperately, “David doesn’t know I’m married. I haven't told him —he's such a peculiar chap.” Her eyes flamed. “You mean that you're ashamed to tell him that you married a girl who was only a governess?” she cried. He put a conciliating arm about her - “Don't be a little silly; you know I was awfully in lovo with you he protested—perhaps neither of them noticed that already he spoke of his passion for her as a thin* of the past—“and—well, the fact is. If I fall foul of David, he can stop my allowance: every penny I've got comos from him, and he might make It awkward.” That was all eighteen months ago now, and David was still abroad. * • • All tbeee thoughts passed with ilghtmtng rabidity through Dolly Ttr*d#!erfnlp heed as she sat crarlsd

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up in tho coiners of the big couch, watching Mary Furnlvai. It hardly took her a moment to traverse the many weeks since that sunny April morning when Nigel had opened the schoolroom door and walked into her life, down to the present mon-.h when all the world was torn and convulred with strife and horror, and somewhere, somewhere unknown, the man she h&d married was fighting for his country. He had asked her permission, certainty, but she knew that he only

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did so perfunctorily—that he would have gone Just the same, whatever she said. The war fever had got Into his very bones. And so, of course, he had gone. There had been a few days’ rush and excitement, during which she had been vaguely proud of having a man In uniform to walk about with, and then the farewell. • e Dolly got up dutifully at 5 o’olock one gray morning and saw him march away with regiment; she stood in

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the chilly street long after the tramp of feet had died away before she went back to tho flat, where Mary Furnival was waiting for her—ashamed, because ahe knew In her heart was n strange feeling of relief. Life was to go on as usual; Nigel's flankers paid her a generous allowance every month; she was to keep on the flat, and have Mary to live with her. Nigel had known, Mary Furnival long before he ever met his wife. She was on# of those quiet, wonderful people who are never missed or real-

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ized until they are taken away. He had asked her—in his selfish man’s way—to be a friend to the girl he was about to marry. He had never seen the sudden look of shock that crossed her quiet face, or the blanching- of her lips before she forced them to smile. “Why, of course, I will,” she had said, and she had kept her word. She had given up the two unpretentious little rooms which were her home, and moved Into Dolly’s smart flat, where the sight of Nlga's

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possessions lying about wrung her heart every day. CHAPTER 111 “Glad to Go” Mary Furnival’s gentle voice broke the silence of the sunny room again. “He will come back. Dolly dear — please God lie will come back safely. ’ "Dolly flung aside the caressing hand and rose to her feet. "You all seem determined that l shall go on pretending.” she said harshly.' “Sometimes T feel as if I must scream, when people ask after

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Nigel and pretend to be so sorry for' me. Why, you must know, if nobody else dees, that we were tired of eaoh other almost as soon as were married Oh. I know I ought not to say these things,” she burst.out, as Mary gave a little cry, "but I shall die if I can’t say them to somebody. I feel such a humbug—such an absolute humbug!” She came back to where Mary was sitting, and dropped on her knees by the elder girl, hiding her hot face in her lap. (Continued in Ocur Next Issue)