The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-03-04

which suggested that he was making II
mechanical because he dared not let
IL express the human emotion which
was struggling for utterance.
net me talk 10 you, Dave" she
pleaded 81 have followed you around
the world for this Let me talk. I
can explain everything"
lie stood still so long that she won
dered II he never would speak. She
dared not reach her hands to him 1;
she could only stand and walt.
Irene" he said, "why did you fol-
low me heref"
There is only one answer, Dave.
Because I love you aud would follow
you anywhere. No one can stop me
doing that; no one, Dave-except you"
And again he stood. and she knew
that he was turning over in his mind
things weightler than life and death.
and that when he spoke again his
course would be set. Then, in the
partial shadow, she saw his arms
slowly extend; they rose, wide and
strong, and extended toward her.
about her. and the world swooned and
went by. q.
81 can explain everything" she said.
when she could talk.
"You need explain nothing" he re-
turned. 81 have lived the torrents of
the damned. Edith Duncan was right I;
she said II IL were real love it would
never give up. Endureth oil things
she said. All things she said. .
There is no limit
"But must tell you. DEAR" she said.
$50 that you may understand And
then She patched together the stOry
from what she knew and from what
Edith Duncan had told her. and Dave
81, Oiled in what neither had known, in
Guiding the incident earlier on that
fateful evening She could see his
Jaws harden as they pieced the plot
together and she knew what he was
thinking.
"lour country needs you more" she
whispered. at is better that way. And
what man you are in uniform
think see you smashing heads Instead
Of bottles. Six out of six, Davel It's
awful, hut you must do ii. Already we
know what has happened in Belgium
You will forget your own wrongs in
the greater wrongs of others.
And shall Join the service as Il nurse
My father was u doctor. and | can
soon pick it up"
She chatted on. but he had become
suddenly grave. Il don't think that is
your course, Irene" he said. This is
going to be a bigger job than II looked
The government will get soldiers ant
nurses; the popular Imagination turns
To such things. But il will be neither
soldiers nor nurses that will win thu
war. | feel sure of that now. Million
OF men will be taken from production
and turned to purposes of destruction
2 They will be taken from offices, wher
they need little food. and put In I'll
r breaches, where they need much foo'
] Countries will be devastated; armif
will retreat, destroying all food as the
go. Ships will go down with cargoo
J Of wheat; incendlary fires will swallow
l warehouses of food. believe m!
E place is in the trenches; but those les
fit for the fight than | must, in SOM
form or other, produce food. That In
cludes the women; it includes you"
"We? But what can dOT'
"Slnce | left home I've thought {
E good deal of the old ranch. | de
splsed II in those prosperous days
? those days we thought We're prosperous
but the prosperity is gone and TN
I ranch remains. 1t still lies out there
4 just as IL did when you and your fathe
motored down that afternoon dOZel
] years ago. l think you'll have to 9
b back there, Reenie. l think y0u'l
! have To take the boy Charlie, and wha
! other help you can get. and go back {
\ the old ranch and raise something 70
the soldiers to eat. You can do il
a There are good men 10 be had; me
q who can't very well carry rifle, bu
q can drive pillow. And believe m,
q Reenle, it's the pillow that's going {
j. win. Go back and put thea ut il
] Think of every furrow as anothe
v trench in the defenses which shall say
+. your home from the fate of Belgium
b homes. It's not as easy as going t
p the front il hasn't got the heroic rim
? TO it, and | suppose there are man
who will commefcjallze it. Let then
/ We shall need their profits after tn
@ war TO pay our debts. But it's til
y thing that must be done. And YOU
o do il, won't your
= "Tll do whatever needs TO be don'
Dave. I'd rather be by your side, 9
as near as may be, but If you say tina
e my duty lies back on the old ranch
(; shall go back to the old ranch an
a raise food for my soldier. And whe
d it's all over we shall ride those oil
hillsldes again. Up the canyon
you remember, Dave? The little mich
in the wall of the canyon, and all IN
silence and the sunlight? Fol
ever. :"
Continued next week.