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A FIRST NOVEL!.

WHIRLWIND

CHAPTER XLII

It was Mabel who lifted the still figure, and pressed her handker- chief to the blood that trickled from his forehead.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928.

By Eleanor Early.

he found a little pool, crawling to it through the slime. And when he put his lipa to it, and drank, it was sticky. Blood. He'd sweet and wiped it off with his sleeve. It "There's whisky in the decan-was all over his face. ter," she said. "In the highboy, Sib. Get it between his lips. No, his hands. To bury some poor fel- here-let mo do it. Get water,"

DILLON

By and by he dug a hole-with

low's head. It lay there, you sen, staring up at the moon. Awful,

The two giris knelt over him, The teeth showed. and Mabel's compassionate glance

There was a chap ho knew. All was divided between the boy who he could see was his hand. Stick- lay like a corpse and the girl who ju out of some awful muck heap. looked like death. Presently hls: Recognized the ring. A big, black mother had eyelids fluttered, and he gazed wild-stone. The chap's

given it to him on his twenty-first eyed into Sybil's face.

birthday. He told John Ho. Some- one to talk to. Oh, God, don't let him be dead,... He reached for the hund, Touched it-icy cold.

!

"It's you?" he whispered. She wet his checks with her tears na who cradled his hend in her arms. They were alone. Mubel had taken Teddy, and left them.

John Lawrence passed his hand wearily acrons his forehiend. Gazed- nbuently at the blood that streaked

"Come on, old man-out of that damn slime. I'll give you a pull.” A mighty wrench. A-h-l, there that's better. He chafed the

his, Angers, and turned like a won-frozen wrist, and Hutched forward, dering child to Sybil.

"forgot," he said. "It's very strange The war--and everything. It was all before the war, wasn't It?

She nodded. Somewhere she had rend. stories about amnesia. Once long ago--she hid believed John would come luck. But nobody ever did only in book and, movies. And those stories about amnesia: People didn't put much faith in

them.

There was that boy the papers called the Mystery Hero. One arm gone. They thought he lost it in the Argonae. People made such a fuss over him-alienists and psy- chiatrists and rich old women. Some woman with barrels of money married him. Then they discover ed he wasn't a soldier at all. He'd lost his arm in an explosion.

And, that ex-soldier in Roxbury- his wife had him arrested for non support. He claimed to have just

on his elbows, to see his friend's face.

"It wasn't Jim. Syil. Only his it came off. rou see-in my

hand Hike that."

She let him deliver himself of hig misery. Vaguely. · Incoher. ently.

AL Inst they found him. Took him to a hospital. Base Hospital No. IB. A Buzzolllex. His leg was broken, and his left arm.

The

"See-how crooked it is. er et better. Shrapnel Bears on my body. Riba caved in. Pretty much of a bust. And I couldn't tell them a thing. Sybil. Not my name, my outfit. Nothing at all. My mind

blank. an absolute Everything that happened before the explosion, night just as well have never happened, so far as 1 Wi concerned.”

WOR

When stads blew up, men were put down as missing, presumably del. The resumption was safe

his memory, and when she faced ligh. And that was how John

him in court with their child, said he had never seen "either of them before. But the judre wouldn't believe hun, and sent him

Lawrence came to be listed first a "missing" and, Gnally, "killed in action."

tisht from Base Hospiti No. 18 in He had eenped in delirious

ter juil.

There were lots of stories, Am-his Pyjamas one night, If they had ness, like charity, covered a multi-known his name, they would have tude af sine, But Jolin John dropped him after 10 days, sa wund tell such fies, Why should deserter. But, because he le? He loved her, didn't he? Onameless, he was spared that Joulese die had wanted to come home fignomins. And, when they cante upon him in Bordeaux they sent him back again.

to her.

"It's very stringe," he mur mured. And in dumb anguish she Inclined her head. It was, Very

strange.

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The baby is it yours 7" She nodded.

"They said you were dead. At first i wouldn't believe it. I waited and waited. Bal you never came. I was married two and a half years ago, Myiny-ausband is dead.".

John, Lawrence grunned. "riod in heaven !"

WIR

There were manths of it. He did not know how many. Finally the Armistice was declared.

Put was off my nut. I didn't

care."

"And you didn't ever think of me?" she whispered.

"No, dear. You see.... I wish I could make you understand. It was as, if my past was all behind a great wall. If 1 rauid pierce the wall, I knew I'd find the life I'd left behind. 1 simply couldn't get He struggled to his feet, explor-fot was like a physical strug- Ing his pockets arrvously.. On his glo, "trying. "It was autstretched im he extended a

as If 1 had died and small white box.

gone....Oh, say I'd gone to Mars. And after death, I knew I'd lived on a different planet. But it was dreadfully far away. There was no one on Mars who could help me go back, and no one on earth to come to get me. Do you see, dear? Can make you, feel the thing at all.

"Look-It's a wedding ring. bought it this morning. The banns were published last Sunday. Oh, my God, Sybil. What are we going to do!"

le put his hands over his face, and alle kissed his fingers timidly.

"John, look at me, dear. It's so long-so long ago. Do we care, dear, still?"

She pried his fingers from his hair, and he took her hands, and kissed them wildly.

į

it was like standing on a brink, with darkness behind me.

Trying

to remember was like trying to see with eyes mindaged. There was not one glimmer of light to help.

"I tried to reconstruct a Bfe such

Then she was in his arms-strugas other fellows had. I studied gling, protesting, entreating..

faces-photographs even. Search-

Deaf to her pleas, he caressed ing for features-eyes-smiles her. Kissed her lips and her eyes anything that would help me re- and her pour pale face, and her member Middle-aged faces, like white throat. Until, spent with fathers and mothers. I tried to re- ardour, they sank on the divan, like construet my childhood. tired children, and her head fell

"Then I began to wonder if there

limply in the hollow of his shoul-had been a girl. A sweetheart. I der.

read love stories, seeking to relive

Tell me," she whispered, and her any romantic episode that had col- voice was small and weary. gin at the begginniny."

"Be-foured my life. I closed my eyes-

Truth, they say, is stranger than fiction. Here, then is the story John Lawrence told Sybil

and thought of kisses-soft arms, a beautiful fâce, a lovely body." And made myself ache with longing-- but that was all. It brought back nothing.

"Finally they sent me home-to The war played strange tricks on men. And for exquisite cruelty the States. Walter Reed Hospital psychosis turned the screws-that in Washington. There was a con- from Massachusetts dread affliction that spared the bodygresswoman and scourged the soul.

there-Mrs. Foster. Angel' the He told his story disjointedly. fellows called her.

"She took an interest in me- They were marching in squand columns. The objective--oh, no the same sort of interest she look matter. Earth and trees sprouted in every poor devil. She had a no- up like geysers. There were weird on I was from Boston. She talk

about Harvard, but it lights in the sky and shells screeched to me ing like hell let loose. He was didn't mean scared. No use lying. Knees shaklittle German and some Spanish. I'd read a good deal, and discovered Ing.

Werse could translate Greek. But I There was an explosion. than the rest. A shell, you know, don't knew yet where I learned Right in the middle of the squad. those things.

a thing. I knew a

"Oh, darling! It's-it's no g↔. "You're nil I remember, dear. I never tried to talk about it befora Nothing else but you. And until I ... Blood and myd.... Fellows saw you, when I opened that door, blown to pieces... arms and legs you hadn't crossed my mind in 10 -and-and things.... Sybil, hold | years."

my hand! Ah, sweetheart... Nь

Man's Land, they called it...."

•

Sybil bit her lip on a despairing ifttle moan.

He was sobbing. Crying like a "Do you remember everything baby-ber soldier back from the now, John?"

WAFS...

"No-but I will. It's coming

"Oh, John-my dear. My back. I can feel it. It's like see- ing figures in a fog. I found you dear.

He had lain there it acemed. first. I find the rest Inter."

Days-nights-nobody knew. Once

(To Be Continued.)

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