The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-02-24
S#I:s Ann SitTAHHE
BY DOROTHY DOUGLAS.

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fCupvr:ght 1913. by tie Mcclure Newspa.
per Syndicate.)
Suzanne, cnveloDed in an apron
s.ood over the gas range stirring
fgGSe. 1t seems such an odd thing
to 2,ni to the army" she said to her
neither.
( 80; late is very nourishing and
sustaining, dear replied Mrs. Adams,
The 5oys can carry it along with
tae,:. O. = march and, when they feel
..t1..G:5ry oT fatisued, eat a piece with
Oh. stopping Don't you see?'
Su1lare nodded "Oh, I'm more
t;2;2 Wiling to make it, and since the
c.: :o:' it las been. sent out I'm sure
It is required"
-a:.t tEer she went On with her
sd: making, thinking and wonder
:aE g she stirred where ard by whom
Il vo.::d be eaten.
II wonder ii any Of the boys will
Sc: Whole box, by any chance" she
sa:G r. herself. 'I-wcndeT!"
When 4 tc&iIload of wounded SOL
oici ,h,:s ;grived ct the big city, of
wi:ic; i.oc home was suburb; Suz-
anne Ves anxious to Join the volun-
teer workers Who were to care for
the soldier laddies.
q am not trained nurse, but I
could help she told her mother.
"A! right, DEAR" her mother said.
"It IS I; noble wo:.k and you have my
Permission to go--ao long as you 80
chsr2c@ned by; Mrs. Greene"
Mrs. Greene was q matron of the
community. who was going to help
with the Nursing Of hSys who had
hccn t,c;;::33.tt !.!.5sTass, and she had; Of
ie-cd 20 tal:6 G-za-:2a With her.
L fell to :--2ry.ac'; let to he sent
20 t.l2 t::;i:.s !: : solder boy whose
not:le: ,:as <. aid At his home
she Ics, t. 2e:;:i n taking care OF
him, "a. from &ae youns man she
.:c-!nci. :n&oG Of the life of!s.soldiers
in battle.
''Eut Ec had much to be thankful
fo:'," tie wounded solder told her
one d. when she sat by his invalid
chair, which was drawn cut on to the
sunny porch beside that OF his moth
CT. We iiSd wonderful Red Cross
scr~:cc we Ec-o not left to suffer
On IL: cc!d t2t ware given the best
S13 clicAcc.. Il attention at all times
ald sent home to mend up. And
the good people al over the country
even saw TO, it tha: We had candy
chocolate sweets-on cur marches. It
wa= grca:"'.t::s boy said.
"Did-d:d you have any fudge?".
Suzanne asked timidly.
Fudge? The best ever and one OF
the fellows in our regiment has gone
clean GaG:y ore: some girl who sent
a box with her name written all over
It. lie ricced it together, taking our
candy c11: Ct our very mouths al
most" tbs soldier laughed-"ard
managed to make cut her name and
where she lives. He swears if he
lives hes going to find that girl, and
well, you know how such things
always turn out"
Wien her charge was we'll enough
to be about .sl:a left him but not be-
fore. SIZE had promised his. mother to
50 each summer TO visit her at their
cottage By the sea.
It vas three summers later that
she went down to the cottage at the
invitation. of the old lady and her ex-
soldier son to spend a fortnight. The
war was over.
3: Mr.. Henry" Suzanne asked of the
boy she Lad rursed, did you ever
hear again OF your comrade who ate
the girls fudge and was bound to win
her. Did he ever End herr"
Funny! He's coming here tonight
to spend the night with three other
fellows, and you can ask him fer
yourself. / ho2e he's either found her
or forgotten. her Henry added. "This
love business gets me-Tm heart
whole for one," he laughed.
It all seemed so natural when Suz-
anne shook hands with Robert Moore
so much as If it had meant to be.
"Suzanna Adams" he said. "Suz-
anne-it's not a2 ordinary name and
I've been searching for it."
why SOP" asked the girl, blushing
furiously.
Because she: made some fudge and
wrote her name upon it to. give me
hope through many a long march,
that's why, and you know. it. Later
on III tell you mere he said. dar-
ingiy. "Will you iste2?"
Suzanne cho!:ed with emotion and
could not answer; but she knew that
she would lisiea-that she had been
waiting for three years to listen.