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Told in a French Garden - August, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich
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knew that Josephine had played her part in her dream romance so well,
that she no longer remembered that it was not true. She had forgotten
she had not really borne the child she carried so lovingly in her
arms.

* * * * *

"Is that all?" asked the Journalist.

"That is all," replied the Trained Nurse.

"By Jove," said the Doctor, "that is a good story. I wish I had told
it."

"Thank you, Doctor," laughed the Trained Nurse. "I thought it was a
bit in your line."

"But fancy the cleverness of the little thing to do all the details up
so nicely," said the Lawyer. "She dovetailed everything so neatly.
But what I want to know is whether she planned the baby when she
planned the make-believe husband?"

"I fancy not," replied the Nurse. "One thing came along after another
in her imagination, quite naturally."

"Poor little Josephine--it seems to me hard luck to have had to
imagine such an every day fate," sighed the Divorcée.

"Don't pity her," snapped the Doctor. "Poor little Josephine, indeed!
Lucky little Josephine, who arranged her own romance, and risked no
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