South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-07-16
\ SOLDIER OF THE LEGION.
BN Emerson Hough
at The NiufTautaS

~ aaAtANA III hANh-h
of The NigiIanteS
He lay silent in his white band
ages II was his first return to CON
seriousness. He thought he was I'm
another world.
Presently he heard a gentle sigh
ins-the sighins of many men re-
pressing their pain for the sake Of
others Elsewise the place was
silent. save that from some distant
place came music. soft and gentle
again the thought came 10 him that
it was another world-that world OF
which one never spoke in the
trenches. He was sure Of this since
now he saw approaching him a
creature in white.
She came and stood by his bed.
passed hand across his forehead.
looked odwn at him with semitic
eyes
Wei. MARION of the Legion.
said she. come on. eh?'
He smiled suddenly, his even white
teeth showing between his bearded
lips.
80 then said he, you are not
an agel,"
oh, no. MARION. am but the
nurse" she touched the badge Of
the Red cross on her cap.
What is it-your organization n
he asked. In the Legion We do not
knowof it. Who brought me in:
Did ] cry out?'
The bearers brought YOU in. You
did not cry out You were close 10
the wire OF the objective. An. the
Legion, Always it is the Legion
which must do the impossible
we did it. them"
Yes. II was glorious. But there
is no Legion now
She wiped away the tears that
gathered in his eyes-the first his
eyes had wnOwn within his mem
DRY.
Il am Of the LEGION he muir
INJURED
Why did you join. Marbon?' she
asked OF him.
ITO hght." ne said simply.
And 10 forget
why, yes. That is best attained
in fighting, YOU see"
And YOU came to France-fOr
some ones sake?'
we 10 not speak of such things
i'm the Legion he said simply. But
what natter am broken and
done. 1t is our creed 10 leave such
where they fall. Who. then are
YOU. TO violate our creed--you with
your uniform of white and its in
sigma of red ?"
1T is the white Of clean faith,
MARION of the Legion. II is he red
of hearts bleeding in sympathy with
other hearts on all the fields of all
the world That is our creed
1T is folly" said he gruffly, try
TO turn beneath the white counter
pane. When "A man falls ne is
done if he cannot rise of himself.
In the Legion one kills man some
times i'm mercy. / have done as
much-many times. ! lacked that
this time.
we do not kill the wounded.
MARION. We save them. Gould
you not devoote yourself TO my
creed? You see"
Il see that you are brave as any
Of US. But what YOU ask is the i'm
possible.
Tt was the impossible that al
WAYS - asked OF US as Well But
in the one case and the other the
impossible has been done. and Will
be done. SO now ! will take YOU
and make YOU a man again. You
shall live You shall work 10 ease
sorrow. not 10 create it. TO build up
the world. not 10 destroy 1t. I say
nothing AGAINST your Legion. for
men like YOU must go out 10 fight
that which is wrong. ] say only
that man goes from one regiment
10 another that one regiment may
serve as well as another-that Our
Lesion may have its place as well
as yours Is il not true, MARION
you are brave said he simply.
He still sought 70 nod his lips tight.
Then YOU. 100, MARION. Conse-
Grating Yourself to this. our Legion.
must be brave again. You must
live. You must hope | promise
you-vou shall Vet forget"
III is a new LEGION he eXclaim-
ed lit does the impossible. a good
creed, Well. then. NiVe-
Suddenly he drew out his arm
from beneath the covering TO wave
his hand. But his hand was gone.
Gently she pushed his arm down
as he cazed "A IL wonderingly.
Patience. my friend" said she.
Patience and courage, Tn our
Legion we also do the impossible
for the sake Of love and hope