Not in the Guidebook by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Short summary

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War hero Jim leaves his wife Millie at the station. She is rescued by Billy’s guide. It turns out that Jim is a fraud and the real hero is Billy. Millie divorces and marries the guide.

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War hero Jim decides to leave for Paris with his wife Millie. For the entire six months of their marriage, he drank and beat Millie. But she saw him as a hero and justified her husband’s behavior by the war.

He accomplished the feat of delivering secret papers found on the body of a murdered German officer to headquarters. It hastened victory. Jim was rewarded.

On his way to France, Jim ran away from Millie, leaving her on the train with no money. At the station, the girl was molested by vagrants, but she was rescued by a guide to Paris, Billy.

The man began to take care of Millie and fell in love with her. The girl was sympathetic to him, but she was faithful to her hero husband.

One day Billy told her that he, too, had fought in the war. From his story, Millie realized that her husband was a liar.

He had stolen secret papers and a watch from a badly wounded Billy, who had taken them from the enemy and carried them to headquarters. Millie divorced Jim and married Billy.