Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-15
CHAPTER XIII.

When America entered the Great
European War, Vida sem Raymie off
TO an officers neutrality-suspicious.
tina a year after her wedding. Ray
nlle was df1igent and rathe strong.
He came out a first lieutenant of in
,antry. n a one of the earliest
sent abroad. t"
Carol grew definitely afraid Of Vida
as Vida, transferred the passion
WWfhch had been released in marriage
70 the u of the war; as she lost
all tolerance. When Carol was
touched by the desire for heroism in
Raymie and tried tactfully 10 express
It., Vida made her feel like an i'm
pertinent child.
BY enlistment and draft, the sons
OF Lyman Cass, Nat Hicks. Sam
Clark Joined the army. But most of
the soldiers were the sons Of German
and Swedish farmers unknown to
Carol. DR.. Terry Gould and DR.. Nc
Ganum became captains in the medi-
cal corps, and were stationed at camps
IN Iowa and Georgia. They were the
only officers, besides Raymie,n from
the Gopher Prairie district. Kenni-
colt wanted to &c with them, but the
several doctors of. the town forgot
medical rivalry and. meeting in coun-
Gil, decided that he would do better
to wait and keep the town, well till
he should be needed. Kennicott was
forty-two now; the only youneish
doctor left in a radius Of eighteen
miles. Old DR.. Westlake, who loved
comfort like a cat, protestingly rolled
out at. night for country calls, and
hunted through his collar-box for his
G.. A. r. button.
Carol did not quite know what she
thought about Kennicott's going. Ger
tainly she was no Spartan wife. She
knew b a he wanted to go; she knew
that his longing was always in him.
behind his unchanged trudging and
remarks about the weather., She felt
for him an admiring affection-and
she; was sorry that she had nothing
more than affection.
Cy Bogart was the speetacular war
rior of the town. Cy was no longer
the weedy boy who had sat in the
loft specializing about Carols egotism
and the mysteries Of. generation. He
was nineteen now, tall, broad. busy.
the town sport" famous for his abtl-
ity to drink beer; to shake dice, to
tell undesirable stories, and. from his
post In front OF Dyer's drug store, t.
embarrass h girls by "jollying" them
As they passed. His face was at once
peach-bloomed and pimply.
Cy was to be heard publishing It
AOAOau GShA al me- COulQnN GET the
Widow Bogart's permission, to enlist.
he'd U away and enlist without It.
He shouted that he "hated every dir
ty3Hun: by gosh, II he could lust
poke bayonet into one big fat Heinie
and learn him some decency and de-
mocracy, he'd die happy" Cy got
much reputation by whipping q farm.
boy named Adolph Fochbauer for be-
ing q damn hyphenatei German"
This was the younger
lPochbauer, who was killed in the Ar
gonne, while he was trying to brins
the body Of his Yankee captain back
to the lines At this time Cy Bogsr
was still dwelling In Gopher Prairie,
and planning to 80 to war,
II.
Everywhere Carol heard that the
war was going TO bring a basic change
I'm psychology, to purity and ,,nlift
Everything from marital relations Ia
national politics, and she tried Ia ex-
nit IN 1t. Only she did not find II.
She saw the women who made band
agesi o the Red Cross giving M
bridge. and laughing II having u 8
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