Smyrna times., 1918-04-17

Baldwin. They didn't know each other
cry long; only for two weeks, to be
'Xact, but both We're graduates Of the
same college, which makes all the diff
'ercnce in the world
Its just as if We had known each
other for four years the man ez-
planned. $50 l want you to treat me
rs one of your oldest friends"
That had been two weeks ago when
Dud had arrived at the Smith farm
house for a 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 u
cloudless day, and her lips matched the
petals of a 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 90 back to the city again. SO
ne looked into the depths of the girls
eyes ard became suddenly brave.
Il 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 at 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 a mockery of her geo
graphy lesson; and for a seemingly
endless month he ate his heart out for
her and then. when he could not stand
it an hour longer, he wrote her 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 com
mission and was assigned to Camp
Dix. y. J. Then it was that he heard
about the 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 q letter to the
alumni and students of the college il
the camps telling them of the campus
meetings. the football games, and al
other gossip. He offered to answer al
questions about GlenwoOd men in serv
ice. sent sweaters and socks whidi tn
ladies of the faculty knitted, and did
hundred and one things to make eaSie
the days of those who had answere
the nations call.
Dud enjoyed the letters Immensely
and one time in the late fall, wins
he happened to be in the college tow
he dropped into the Office of the wa
bureau. Jim Handy, the directo
greeted him cordially.
Even the cO-eds are doing things
he said enthusiastically.
"Who are they, and what are the
doing?" asked Dud.
"Oh, lots of things. There's Dor
- Baldwin, for instance. She hi
charge"
There's whO?"
Dud's eyes were popping out of b
head and his hand had gripped 4
wrist Of his classmate convulsivel
The director of the bureau looked
him wonderingly.
"And you mean to say you knC
where she is?"
"Of course I do"
Dud rose suddenly from his Chi
and claDped the astOnished Jim Han
rcsoundingly on the shoulder.
"Jim," he announced jubilantly'
thought your war service bureau W
pretty good thing before, but NJ
I know it's the greatest thing ever
vented. Where is she?"
81 suppose you mean Doris" Jim
swered. "If you do, she's one of
ladies in charge of the Hostess ho'
at Camp Dix. Where are you goini
Jim was already half way to
door.
There's a train for camp VIII
leaves this town in just five minute
he said, "and I'm going to be on t
train"
He caught it without the least
of trouble, and when he reached
camp, the first thing he did was
make a bee-line for the Hostess ho'
He found Doris there, waiting as
she had been expecting him for |
time, and In just two minutes he m
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