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Two days after this it came out in the papers—“War hero deserts wife en route to Paris ,” I think, or “American Bride arrives penniless, Husbandless at Gare du Nord .” The police were informed, of course, and word was sent out to the provincial departments to seek an American named James Cooley who was without carte d’identité . The newspapers learned the story at the American Aid Society and made a neat pathetic job of it, because Milly was young and pretty and curiously loyal to her husband. Almost her first words were to explain that it was all because his nerves had been shattered in the war.
Young Driscoll was somewhat disappointed to find that she was married. Not that he had fallen in love at first sight—on the contrary, he was unusually level-headed—but after the moonlight re
