The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-02-12


who were bcsieging the enlistment
Offices on the corner.
He pointed them out TO Janet. but
she was impressive. Mad men," she
remarked, and shrugged her shoulders,
And the final Issue came about the
next morning Gerald was firm.
"War Is duty between man and
his God" he said hotly, mot man
! and his wife"
| Just enough to kindle the fame.
Janet blazed her brown eyes upon him
and replied. "Well. II you go, Gerald.
| you go for good. II sou are that stub
| born and care for the So little. IT'S best
we know II now. You go. Gerald. and
---and-well. we part Ways
Gerald tried n Cancellation, but 1t
was futile. He decided Ia go!
A duh period OF nonotony followed
for janet ut the Hemingway establish
ment, where she had taken refuge
after Gerald had gone to camp. But
the loneliness of the days she had
hitherto filled TO the brIin with her
many household cares seemed to pail.
Janet must do something. And so be-
cause Anne Dawson was going into
the navy MS yeomanette, Janet de-
cided to take up stsnography and go,
too.
But she was disappointed. Several
weeks after she graduated from the
business school In the heart Of town
an order came through for stenOg-
raphers at the gas defense plant on
Long Island. She hesitated. Anne was
appointed In the navy. But could she
not do che same bit In the arinyf
Her selfshness In merely wanting to
be with her girl friend came to her
In full realization one morning when
she had seen the first transport OF
wounded soldiers land, and she mas
tened to the plant TO offer her services.
Janet. with the knack Of her fathers
aptitude for business. got along ex-
ceedingly well. Meantime the war
rnged M It's fiercest. Battles came
thicker and more often, and the yell
of the pewsies' husky voices on the
street corners at every edition Of the
big metropolitan daily made Janets
flesh creep. Yes she had read of Ger
aids wonderful deed
She had followed every line OF the
account OF how he had saved whole
squadron by repairing the motor ambu-
lances so rapidly. Janet knew that
new and greater love had come into
her life. There was change, too. IN
her parents view. Janets mother. all
concillatory and one OF the chief work
ers at the war camp community serv-
Ice said she always knew there were
big things in Jerry"
But Janet had cried herself to sleep
that night.
In vain she wrote letters abroad. II
only she knew his definite address.
She had read where Ire had been
wounded. but no hospital number was
given. The Red Cross took down the
data she was able to supply them.
scant MS 1t was. for she had refused
even to see him the day he graduated
from the training camp and was or
ueTcu over
That was months before, and bit
ter repentance grew in her heart be
cnuse of Il. She had been selfish, mar
row minded and vain. The words she
had uttered that day he had enlisted
burned and scared like blue flame now.
But morning banlshed all the tears,
lust because there was work to be
done. and Janet dainty from the
fey1her In her little trig hat to her
neatly polished shoes went to the plant
to take her place among It's many other
workers. 1t was her last trip this day. |
for orders awaited her to report In
Washington.
A word of thanks to her captain for
her as most capable. II |
hastily packed travelling bag. host OF |
imuginati0n--and Janet was on her |
way to the great center from which |
so many executive spokes OF |
the worlds war. II was glorious hut |
the old feeling returned to quell her
enjoyment every now ana then on the
train trip going down.