The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09

that John could continue to see her as
usual.
1t was Friday when he received
word of his probable transfer. and on
the following Sunday it was his turn
to visit Glendale. He told Margery
then that it was probably his last
visit; and something in her eyes filled
him with a sudden hope. But altho
his brain urged him to. ask her the
question which quivered on his lips.
his heart failed him in most unsol-
dierlike manner; SO he went back to
Camp Dix feeling very much as IL the
bottom had fallen out of the world.
But when his last Sunday in the
northern cantonment approached, and
he pictured John Robson sitting be-
fore the big CRATE fire in Margery's
library, he suddenly resolved to exer-
else his prerogative as an officer, can
eel Johns leave of absence, and pay
a visit to Glendale himself. But when
John heard of the. order. he man
aged to find Dave alone for few
minutes, and then put the matter be-
fore him as man to man.
You promised that 1 could have
every other Sunday at home" he
said, speaking as an old acquaintance
and not as a private to his officer.
And you're not playing the game il
you cancel my leave this week"
Dave, was of course, unable to tell
John of his transfer; and recognizing
the fairness of his rivals words. he
granted him the right to leave camp
on Saturday evening. But when John
was still on the train, Dave hurried to
company quarters and talked long
and earnestly to Margery over the
telephone.
"Of course I'll be glad to visit
camp" she said. II was wonder
ing if you were going South without
seeing me again"
Dave wondered, too. how he could
ever have thought of such a thing, and
when he Ipet Margery at the station
the next morning, he told her So And
she smiled at him in such a way that
he suddenly mustered up the courage
to suggest that there were too many
visitors at the camp and that they
could enjoy themselves more if they
found some lonely country road to
follow. His heart leaped when she
nodded her head silently, and so they
explored Camp Dix by walking direct
ly away from it.
They had lunch together in a way
side inn which was really a converted
farmhouse, and after they had finish
ed eating, they sat still for long
| time and just looked at each other
| across the table.
why didn't you plan to come to
Glendale this Sunday?', Margery ask
ed finally.
II did" Dave answered, but 1
knew that with John there. 1 couldn't
| say what I wanted to. 1t wouldn't
have been fair to cancel Johns leave
| of absence, because / had promised
| him not to early in the fall; SO the
only thing I could do was to have you
| here"
| Margery-nodded.
What did you want to say to me?~
| she asked
! The room was deserted, the waitress
! had miraculously disappeared: and so
Dave told her what he had wanted TO
say for ages. And when he had fin
| ished, she reached her hand across
/ the table and told him, so softly that
he hardly heard, that she had always
| been very much in love with him.
And back in Glendale, John Robe
son tramped disconsolately TO the
railroad station and wondered what In
the world had happened to take Mar
gerry so suddenly away from home.
But ais fair they say, in love and
in war.