Officers stopping in to fight their paper and pin battles.
THE AMAZING INTERLUDE
By Mary Roberts Rinehart
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
THE KINNEYS
Contents
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XI XII XIII XIV XV
XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX
XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV
XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX
Illustrations
Officers stopping in to fight their paper and pin battles.
"That I should have hurt you so!" he said softly.
That Henri might be living, somewhere—that some day the Belgians mightgo home again.
I
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has formost of us but one setting. It is furnished out with approximately thesame things. Characters come, move about and make their final exitsthrough long-familiar doors. And the back drop remains approximatelythe same from beginning to end. Palace or hovel, forest or sea, it isthe background for the moving figures of the play.
So Sara Lee Kennedy had a back drop that had every appearance ofpermanency. The great Scene Painter apparently intended that thereshould be no change of set for her. Sara Lee herself certainly expectednone.
But now and then amazing things are done on this great stage of ours:li