Arizona republican., 1918-09-11
"The Martial Adventures of
 Henry And Me"

feet alliance it is between the Kaiser and the Sultan
 Then it came to us again that Ger mans on seas, in submarines, in air in their planes bombing hospitals and on land, footing and dynamiting villages in all their martial enterprises. think unlike the rest of civilized men. They are a breed apart-savage. material minded, diabolic, unrestrained by tear or love of God. man or devil. We talked of these things for time; but some thing, the quiet beauty of the garden maybe, took the edge off our hate. And gradually it became apparent to me. at least. that the Young Doctor vas marking time until we should have the sense to tell him something of the | Eager Soul. What did he care for the war? For the Prussians? For their Babylonian philosophy? For his wound ed hand? What were gardens made | for in this drab earth. if not for sane tuaries of lovers? One does not go to a garden to hate, to buy. or sell. 10 | fight. to philosophize. but to adore something or someone, somehow or somewhere. And the Young Doctor was | in his Holy Temple and we knew it. So | Henry asked: You received your let ter?" And when he thanked us for your trouble. Henry asked again: Did she tell you that the Gilded Youth was there at her hospital?"
 "Only in a pencilled postscript after she had decided to send the letter to me by you" answered the Doctor.
 Mr. Whites Bet Safe
 That sounded good to me. Evidently she had written to the Young Doctor before the Gilded Youth had appeared Also presumably she had not written 10 the Gilded Youth. If she had written to him after the air raid that had killed the head nurse. it would indicate that she had turned to the Young Doctor, in an emotional crisis. and that he was still safe bet, as against the Gildcd
 Youth. The only question which oc- cured to me to develop this fact vas this: Did she tell you that she vas made assistant to the new head nurse that came to supply the place of the one who was slain by the Germans?''
 Henry looked at me as if he thought the question was unfair.
 Yes" laughed the Doctor. "in the
 very first line.''
 What odds are you giving now,
 Bill?" asked Henry bitterly.
 Tn the very first lile.-''we could all
 three see the Eager face, the proud
 blue eyes. the pretty effective hands
 brushing the straying crinkly strands
 of red hair from her forehead, as she
 sat there in the bare little nurses
 room, bringing her first promotion :n
 pride to the young Doctor Perhaps ne
 did not realize all that it meant For
 you see he was very young. Certainty
 he did not understand about the odds and repeated the word in a question Henry cut in. "Oh. nothing. only tha,
 night after they went walking in the hospital yard, Bill made me give him , three to five. Now I ought to have 1wc , to one. It's all over but the shouting
 And Henry laughed at the Young Doc ! tors bewilderment; but the young Doctor looked at his bandaged hand , and shook his head. The walk in the
 hospital yard was disturbing news to him.
 An, don't worry about that" Hen- , ry treasured him. Why. man, you , ought to have heard what she said , about you." And Henry. being good , natured sort told the Doctor what the
 Eager Soul had said to the Gilde(
 Youth in the hospital compound, while the buzzing monsters in the air wei T singing their nightingale songs c death in the moonlight
 i We left the Young Doctor after h, , | had squeezed out 1f. us all the new. e We had of the girl. Long after we haf ] passed through the garden gate. od : into the white, gravel paved court un : der the proud arch and into tn r crooked, low, grey walled canyon 0 n the street, we thought of the Youn, = Doctor sitting there reading blue eye S into china asters, red hair into dahlias Il pink cheeks into phlox. hearing inef = fable things whispered among tn leaves of the melancholy yew tree. Ar e all that in land of waste and desola g tion. with wars alarms on every win6 s And we thought that he looked nor - like a poet than doctor even in Iii : uniform; and less like a soldier Ina r either. Such is the alchemy of love i n youth!
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