Connecticut western news., 1920-01-15

"Because Love You, and Would Fol-
 low You Anywhere" she saw his features harden as they had on that dreadful occasion which TOW seemed so long ago.
 rWell?" he said. His voice was me chanical, but in it was something which quicken ed her hope; something which suggested that he was making 1t mechanical because he dared not let it express the human emotion which was struggling for utterance.
 'Let me talk to you, Dave," she pleaded. q have followed you around the world for this. Let me talk. I can explain everything"
 He stood still so long that she won dered if he never would speak. She dared not reach her hands to him; she could only stand and wait.
 fTrene," he said, 'why did you fol low me here?"
 There is only one answer, Dave. Because love you and 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 weightier 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. There was a quick step, and they met about her, and the world swooned and went by
 q can explain everything" she said, when she could talk.
 You need explain nothing" he re- turned "I have lived the torments of the damned Edith Duncan was right; she said if it were real love it would never give up. 'Endureth all things she said. All things she said. |. There is no limit"
 "But must tell you, dear," she said, "so 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 filled in what neither had known, in- cluding 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.
 "Your country needs you more," she whispered. Tt is better that way. And what man you are in uniform l think see you smashing heads instead of bottles. Six out Of six, Davel It's awful, but you must do it. 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 a nurse. My father was a doctor, and can. soon pick it up."
 She chatted on, but he had become suddenly grave. q don't think that is your course, Irene" he said. "This is going to be a bigger job than it looked. The government will get soldiers and nurses; the popular imagination turns to such things. But twill be neither soldiers nor nurses that will win the war. feel sure of that now. Millions of men will be taken from production and turned to purposes of destruction. They will be taken from offices, where they need little food, and put in the trenches, where they need much food. Countries will be devastated; armies will retreat, destroying all food as they go. Ships will go down with cargoes of wheat; incendiary fires will swallow warehouses of food. believe my place is in the trenches; but those less fit for the fight than I must, in some form or other, produce food. That in- cludes the women; it includes you."
 "We? But what can do?"
 Since left home I've thought a good deal of the old ranch. I de- spised it in those prosperous days those days we thought were prosperous but the prosperity is gone and the ranch remains. It still lies out there, just as 1t did when you and your father motored down that afternoon a dozen years ago. I think you'll have to go back there, Reenie. I think you'll have to take the boy Charlie, and what other help you can get, and go back to the old ranch and raise something for the soldiers to eat. You can do it. There are good men to be had; men who can't very well carry a rifle, but can drive a blow. And believe me, Reenie, it's the blow that's going to win. Go back and put them at it.
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