The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-19

switchbohrds; then they needed all the men, and they let me stay to work the boards myself. When the switch boards were all smashed I-well. did what could as combatant."
 She shfvered in the wet and cold in spifeeof a struggle not to, and when sie'repIied to Jim her words were un- steady. He had no garment which was not drenched, so he. put an arm about her and drew her close to him W ,.When we've gone a little further we can sit up, but not npw," he said.
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 He was the stronger one this night, ana as he had clung to her and told her of himself that night when she led him by the hand from beside the bodies of comrades at. N 94, so she clung to him now, and as he question cd her she told him of herself. She was Beatrice Logan and her mother lived near Utica. Her father had been lawyer there; when he died she. had come to New York alone; she had worked np in the telephone company till she was superintendent of an ex- change. She had been twenty-four only the month before.
 About Agnes age she was. Her lit- tie form was light and soft, quite like Agnes and her breath was gently warm upon his cheek; strand of her hnir touched his hrow. She was as deheately feminine as Agnes. yet she had fought or aided those who fought and risked death-was risking it with him now-frOm the same unopposable impulse which possessed him. He valued her, she valued him because they had fought, Was there something finer and nob1er and higher in the faith which Agnes held than in that which made this girl eager to risk and endure what she had suffered? The Shell shock; that must have terribly shaken this frafl. brave little form the awful, constant bfuising of the fabric of the body. the shredding of the soul; then there were ever the hor-. TOTS of the ruins and the streets.
 If Agnes had been in New York in- stead of in Illinois and had heard the approach of the conqueror. heralded by the ton-ue of his guns blasting the way before him, might she not have done as this girl beside him had done? Might it not be that Agnes already had changed and begun to understand? Long. long weeks had passed since he had heard of Agnes or of ar one at home. Bob. who had g. on he Ari. zona in the grcat sea tile. where was he?
 Jim had learned that few of the officers and men from some of the American ships had reached shore. Those who had been able had taken charge 0f harbol defenses and had manned the naval craft, which for long time had helped to prevent the regent from crossing the meats about Manhattan. He had inquired many times of Wendell, but he had learned nothing. Was Nellie still waiting for word of Bob and Agnes for tidings of himf
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 The American censor had not yet re- leased the news that New York was taken. but it was known before mid night in Elgin, III. It went from lip to lip, upon nfere verbal authority. as the truth about the naval battle was first reported. It reached Agnes home thus about II o'clock. A servant who had been downtown in tho little city brought the re-, ort. Agnes telephoned : to Nellie and then put her toilet things in a bundle and went up to spend the eight with Jim's sister.
 l Nsllis yves in bed. but she got up