Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-31
and she knew that n one Of, them

and she knew that any one of. them
would have gladly occupied the va
cant seat in her ear, but she was not
in the mood to talk with them. She
felt that there was something to be
thought out and fixed in her mind,
some impression that life had for her
that. afternoon that she did not want
ter that would be sure to follow II
she stopped and tool home some of
the boys. So she bowed graciously
and swept, by. at a high speed as il
in a great hurry. The war! The
war! It was beating itself into her
brain again in much the same way 1t
had done on that morning when the
drafted men went away. only now it
had taken on a more personal touch.
She kept seeing the lonely vine-ciad
house where that n soldier had
lived, and which he had left 50
desolate; shs kset IT, thinkins how
must be In the land. J
! That evening when she was free to
go to her o she read John Cam
eron's letter again and then, feeling
almost as ii she were childish in. her
haste. she sat down and wrote<an an
swer. Somehow that second reading
made her feel his wish for an answer.
1t seemed a mute appeal that she
could not resist. +
! When John Cameron received that
letter and the accompanying pack
age he a lifted into the seventh
theaveQ for a little while/ He forgot
!-all his misgivings, he even forgot
sLieutenaht Wainwright who had but
THAT day become a most .formidabIe
foe, having been transferred to Cam.
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to be commanding officer in absence
of the captain, and where frequen1
~salutes would be inevitable. 1t had
been a terrible blow to Cameron
But now it suddenly seemed q small
matter. He put on his new sweate,
and swelled around the way the 9TH
er boys did, letting them all admire
him. He examined the wonderful
seeks almost reverently, putting {
large curious finger gently on the rec
and blue stripes and thrilling will
fthe thought that her fingers had pliet
the needles in those many, man.
felt 1t would be 'sacrilege to wear
them. and he laid them away mos
Carefully and locked them into thu
box under his bed lest some othel
fellow should admire and desire then
ito his loss. But with the letter h,
walked away into the woods as far al
the bounds of the camp would ALLOW
and read and re-read it. rising at las
from it as n refreshed from a, com
forting meal after long fasting. i
vas on the way back to his barrack'
kthat night, waiting slowly Snder tn.
Estarlight. snot Desiring to- besssback Uni;
It'll the last minute before night tap:
because he did not wish to break tn,
wonderful evening he had spent will
her. hal he resolved to try to- ge
leave the, e Saturday and go hom,
I to thank her. i
Back in the barracks with the 9th
ers he fairly scintillated with wit ant
kept his comrades in roars of laugh
ter until the officer of the night sup
pressed them summarily. But Ion,
after the others were asleep he la!
thinking of her. and. listenings.to tn.
;singing of his soul as he~Watched
star that twinkled5 with a friendl:
gleam through a crack in the roo
above his cot. Once again Their,
came the thought of God, and a feel
ing Of. gratitude for this Lowell.
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