The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-06-06
THE WAR SERVICE
BY MELVIN STEVENS.
IJIol Uy IIIt MNNIuIc NGWbpd-
per Syndicate.)


and bud Embury was gazing question
ingly into the clear blue eyes of Doris
Baldwin. They didn't know each other
very long; only for two weeks, to be
exact, but both were graduates Of the
same college, which makes all the diff
ference in the world.
'Its just as if we had known each
other for four years." the man ex-
planned. $50 l want you to treat me
as one of your oldest friends"
| That had been two weeks ago, when
bud had arrived at the Smith farm
house for n brief rest from business
worries. 1t was just coincidence that
Doris happened to be the village school
teacher, but the new arrival consid-
| cred It about the luckiest thing that
| ever happened to him. For Doris
| eyes were like the October sky on a
cloudless day, and her lips matched the
petals of crimson rose. She had only
been out of college year.
| Their two weeks together had flown
on enchanted wings, and the time had
finally come when it was necessary for
| bud to go back to the city again. SO
he looked into the depths of the girls
| eyes and became suddenly brave.
81 love YOU" he said.
He had always thought that when
he spoke those words, the girl to whom
they were directed would open her
| arms and smile at him. But Doris did
| no such thing. Instead, she dropped
| her eyes and traced an aimless pattern
| on the floor of the porch. The man
could not see that her heart was wild
with the joy of his confession; that
her whole being quivered for the touch
of him. He only knew that she did not
come to him ut once; and because his
| knowledge of girls was limited, he i'm.
agned that she did not care.
So, very quietly, he turned away
from her and hurried upstairs to his
room.
He went away the next day while
| she was making mockery of her geo
graphy Il son. and for a seemingly
endless month he ate his heart out for
| her and then when he could not stand
| ii an hour longer, he wrote her a let
| ter, telling again of his love and asking
her if she could ever care for him.
But in a week the letter came back
| with the announcement that Miss
Doris Baldwin had gone from Noun
tainville and had left no address.
And then, having found business
suddenly uninteresting, he applied for
admission into the first series of Off
GERS training camps and was admitted
to Plattsburg early in the summer.
In the course of three months he
was graduated with a captains con-
mission and was assigned to Camp
Dix N. j. Then it was that he heard
| about he war service bureau of Glen
wood college The bureau was estab-
| lished by a classmate of his who was
| unable to fight because of physical
defects and who had decided to devote
| his time to the Glenwood men who
| had entered the service of the nation.
| Every week he sent a letter to the
alumni and students of the college in
the camps telling them of the campus
meetings, the football games, and all
other gossip. He offered to answer all
questions about Glenwood men In serv-
! ice, sent sweaters and socks which the
| ladies of the faculty knitted, and did
hundred and one things to make easier
the days of those who had answered
the nations call.
bud enjoyed the letters immensely;
| and one time in the late fall, when
| he happened to be in the college town,
he dropped into the Office of the war
| bureau. Jim Handy, the director,
greeted him cordially.
even the goods are doing things"
he said enthusiastically.
"Who are they, and what are they
doing?" asked bud.
"Oh, lots of things. There's Doris
Baldwin, for instance. She has
charge"
There's who"
buds eyes were popping out of his
head and his hand had gripped the
wrist of his classmate convulsively.
| The director of the bureau looked at
him wonderingly.
"And you mean to say you know
where she isl"
"Of course do"
bud rose suddenly from his chair
and clapped the astonlshed Jim Handy
resoundingly on the shoulder.
"Jlm," he announced jubilantly, Il
thought your war service bureau was
a pretty good thing before, but now
| know it's the greatest thing ever in
vented. Where is she?"
81 suppose you mean Doris" Jim an
swered. "lf you do, she's one of the
ladies' in charge of the Hostess house
Mt Camp Dix. Where are you going2"
Jim was already half way to the
door.
"There's n train for camp which
leaves this town in just five minutes"
he said, "and I'm going to be on that
train"
lie caught 1t without the least bit
Of trouble, and when he reached the
camp, the first thing he did was to
make Decline for the Hostess house.
He found Doris there, waiting as II
She had been expecting him for long
time, and In just two minutes he made
right the misunderstanding of many
/ months.
So 1t was that the war service bu-
reau served two people In way which
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