A STRANGE STORY.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1916, Page 11

A STRANGE STORY.

A strange story is told in the English motor-cycle press. The owner of a fine side-car outfit enlisted, and in due course was sent to a training camp. Before leaving h.me li D taught his wife to drive the outfit, and loft her with strict injunctions to keep the petrol burning' until he came home and have as good a time as possible. She complied, and being very keen on side-carriiig, used the machine considerably. But dark' times caniei Her husband was sent to Flanders, and ene dreadful morning she received a letter telling lier that he had died on the field of honor. For months her mind was numbed with grief, then as she recovered somewhat frem the shock she felt that in honor of her husband's memory she must d e something to help the brave fellows who had been his comrades in arms. She had had no training in nursing, so all she could think 'if wag to apply to a h»spitai fer per*issien to take out convalescents for snort runs in the sidecar. She took out "any, and heard stories that made her r, alise what genuine heroism had keen shown by all ranks. One day when sh B had driven to the hespital. i man who had lost a leg was brought eut to her. The nurse said he was a sad ease, as he had cempletely last his memory A glance showed the Samaritan sidecarist that the man was her husband. He had Wen frightfully injured by a shell, and the shack had temporarily destroyed all memory of his previous* life. He had keen picked up in the field almost naked, his identificatien disc had been lest, and practically all his companies had been killed. His wife nursed him back to health, and.inow when the twa are seen out together it is she who always drives. What a story for one »f our novelists!