Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1927, Page 20

The cAmazing Chance By Patricia Wentworth Copyright, 1927, by J. B. Lippencott Co. Evelyn Prothro. married Jim Laydon_ earls in the war. Het friends say ihai Waa in love with Jim's cousin, Jack L. who was hest man at the wedding. same day hoth men got & call to the front, and. a_short time later. both were reporied missing in the same air engagement. FE donned v's_weeds. but there was al- ST Ctheguestion Whispered among_her friends of which it was she mourned-—her Pusband. Jim or his cousin, Jack. —Xow later, with never a word from were first missing, one of But which one® It _came about hke this: Mai o | conld oo is knocked sensless in the yegains consciousness his gare v and he gmeste b :fone a very han Laydon and_with 1l i the erond a: K Yo is old Tardon. who seeme a mix: e she knew, that she’l Auestion ond tels thia new Las fure of both the. B R Tonx. She visits Anna Blum. hut cets no eat ghe” fact_that ‘once in d | order her thoughts. st » week after Exelen n Fad irrevocably quarreled and parted. Contnusd from Yesterday's Siar.) tossed her ed Ted Ed- What was he loving wite IS8 pal head. 1 mar wards in doing with a ihe | thought I was; velyn | Mannine. | widow an officer who staved in the Bniish service | =, ron Talls on the | Jm swddenty | T ealling him by | straight away to Alb 2|1 meant to." | its enormous ornament winked in Ellen and a liitle girl of 5| > You s at 1 mean. | or =0 in 19017 You see what I m | knocked von oft your balance at dear ™" Evelyn saw. rather faintly. Pearl Palliser nodded “Well, after that I read the papers all right through. There Were a couple of letters from his loving wife, Ellen; and a poor. niserable. down- trodden, meek-spirited creature seemed to have got hold of. for it was nothing but she knew he'd got Food reasons for mot writing. and she'd go on loving him for ever and ever. no matter where he went or what he did. k “] can tell vou it made me sic Yd never wished Ted back befor but I'd have liked to have had him there for half an hour or so yester- day so that I could tell him just what 1 thought of him. Well. there were the letters. marriage certifica She stopped abruptly and gazed at Evelyn in an odd. frowning silence. Then it had lasted about a minute. Evelvn said, S “Then you—then he—— “I'd never been married to him at all. The certificate said that he'd married Lucy Ellen Lovegrove at St. Barnabas' Church, Chiswick. on the eighteenth of January, 1895—four years before he married me and never suggested anything but a reg- istry.” Miss Palliser's fine eves were very angry. “There's a sort of satisfac- tion in feeling that I wasn't married to him: and I'm sure I'm heartily sorry for that poor Lucy Ellen crea- ture that was, for_a worse lot than Ted Edwards I've never met, and don’t wish to.” She dabbed at the bright, angry eves, straightened her hat. which had fallen rankishly over one ear, and resumed her ordinary appear- ance of good nature. “Well, dear. you see what a fix She said “Oh” again “Yes, dear. Just you think a bit, and you'll see it as plain as I did when my friend put it to me. I went round to him, of course—we're en- gaged or as good as—and he pointed it out once. Gentlemen have such a grasp of these things. “He said a® quick as quick. it you weren't marrfed to Ted Ed- wards, then vou were married to Atbert Laycock. You're Mrs. Albert Laycock’ he said—that's what you |any business of And. for all you know to the | *i&n any still | King. are. eontrary. alive, waving Albert Layeock’s ladies and shaving n Ontario.’ Oh mercy, Henry, | 1 sat down and | _ I said; an FORLTHE FMARTEST JEAZON OF THE YEARL A <o (Bt il id there was a | | | married Jack, and a govd bit more | Field: |1 told her"—here Miss Palliser be- {aal and “You poor thing!” “Well, 1 don’t know. At firat 1 and then 1 wasn't fo sure. I'd like to settle down and be comfortable. Rut there's always the chance that I'd get bored, H belng one of the respectable ones. “Why, what do you think ef his telling me not to call him Henry any more till we were sure I was a Cowdray till the cable . were his’last words: 1 to think myself whether do, with a n that was as proper as all that.” What cable?” asked Evelyn. “Oh, I'll say that for Hen he dosn’t spave expense, % bex: know if Albert was alive. It wzives n feeling waiting to know whether you're a widow or not.” B “Tt must he horrid.” | “Buf, of course, dear, there's al- ways a cheerful side—and I'm not going to mope whichever way it | turns out, “It Albert’s living, well, he's livins: nd maybe I'd like Ontario well enough. ~And if he isn't living I can just take Henry and settle down like struggling to Talking to Pearl er or, rather, being talked to by | Pearl Palliser, was like trying to walk on a feather bed: there was so little foothold and such vast billow- ing masses of words. | “But if you really were married to I Mr. Layeock— she began. | * Miss Palliser nodded triumphantly. Her hat had slipped over the other ear and hung there unregarded while Evelyn had been the firelight “I knew yvou'd get there! It just first lixe it did me. But I knew vou'd tumble to it when you'd time to get your breath so to speak. | “If 1 wasn't married to Ted Ed- wards, then I was married to Albert Laycock: and that knocks out Jim eld and Jack Laydon—knocks ‘em | ght off the map. “For whether Albert's alive or not at this moment. he was alive and doing “well in 1916, a vear after I {than a year after I married Jim for I met a cousin of his in the street and she told me so. .And came vehement—"that it was a scan- a shame.if he was, for he ought to be out in the war like the | other poor hoys. or at the very least | in a hospital with an arm or a leg off. She didn't like it, and we had words—a nasty, bo; cat of al woman with a what. u-got-in- | the-larder kind of an e omething like this, dear.” Miss Palliser sat holt upright, fold- ed her hands on her knees, drew in her plump cheeks, pinched in her nose and pursed her lips. She cer- tainly produced a vivid, if momen- tary. impression of a sharp-nosed female with a gimlet eve. It was momentary because she broke suddenly into a rich, deep gurgle of laughter. “Well, well; it takes all sorts to make a world, even if there's some of | the sorts you feel you could do with- out and welcome. ‘Ah, dear. now that reminds me that Nosey Abbott fel- low—you said he wasn't a friend of vours—he's been bothering me again. and I can see he means to go on. He's that sort.” 2 Evelyn nodded appreciatively. “Yes, he is." “Well, dear, sooner or later he'll bother me into doing what he wants. You'll see, it's this way—I'm one of those that can’t keep on saying no It's always gone against me, and | don't suppose I shall get the better of it now. “I can start off right; and I said ‘But | 80O to him the very first time he came, { “Look _here, you Mr. Abbott, or what- | ever your name ix, it's not a bit of ur coming here and worrying me, Wecause | don't know who he s and if 1 did. I'm not going to say. - And anyhow 1 don't see it's ars. 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