The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-04-07

the victory For you must WIZ anu
you viii win.
.srorg,ve me. oh. please-and II you
VIII. could you write TO me! Aho"
Won have things to do more Important
than .girls'-but oh, COULDN'T you
pIeaseT ,
This letter. which she had taken
care NOT to dampen. as she wrote. went
in slow course to the American
Evolutionary Forces In France anu
finally found him whom II pauenu!
soneht He DELAYED not long to answer,
and in time she held In shaking manu-
the penciIed missive he had sent her
"You forget all that comic talk ABOUT
me enlisting because OF your tehihs
me TO. I'd written my father l was
going at the first chance month anu
a half before that day when you sal"
IL. Ny mind was made up the MS,
fine there was any talk Of war. ana
Won had about as much responsiDlit!
for my going as some little sparro" OF
something. OF course l don't mean }
didn't paw any attention TO the uiier'
ent things you said, because always
did. and | used to worry over IL De
cause | was afraid some day 1t would
get you into trouble, and I'm mighty
glad you've cut ii out. That's right
YOU he regular girl now. You always
were one, and | knew that all right.
I'm nor as scared to write 10 you as
was 10 talk 10 you so guess you know
I was mighty tickled to get your letter.
1t sounded blue. but | was glad TO ge'
IL. You bet III write to you don
suppose you could have any idea now
glad | was to get your letter coui'
sit here and write to you all DAY u
tbey'd let me. but I'm corporal now.
When you answer this. l wish you'd
say how the old town looks and If the
grass in the front yards is as green as
II usually is. and everything And tell
me some more about everything you
think OF when you are working down
at the Red Cross like you said. ! guess
I'VE read your letter five million times.
and that part ten million / mean
where YOU underlined that you and
what you said TO yourself at the Red
Cross Oh. murder. but | was glad to
read that. Don't forget about writing
anything else you think of Ike that.
well. | was interrupted then and
this is the next day. OF course ! cant
tell you where we are. because thai
darned censor will read this letter. but
| guess he will let this much by. VIII"
do you think ran across in village
yesterday? Two boys from the old
school days, and we certainly did
shake hands few times. II was thai
old foolish Dutch Krusemeyer and Al
bert Paxton. both of them lieutenants.
heard Fred Mitchell is still training
in the States and about crazy because
they won't send him over yet.
IF you have any idea how glad
was to get your letter. you wouldn't
lose any time answering this one. Any
how, I'm going to write to you again
every few days If get the chance, be
cause maybe you'll answer more than
one of 'em.
But see here, cut out that sent you
to be killed stuff. You've got the
wrong idea altogether. We've got the
we're going to do It, There'll be mis-
takes and bad times, but we won't fall
down. Now. you'll excuse me for say
ing 1t this way. Dora but don't know
just how to express myself except
saying of course We know everybody
isn't going 70 get back home-but lis
ten, we didn't come over here to get
killed particularly. We came over to
give these Dutchmen HI!
perhaps you can excuse language If
! write 1t with blank like that. but
before we get back we're going to dc
what we came for. They may not all
of them be as bad as some of them
IT'S good thing you don't know what
we do. because some of II would make
you sick. AS say, there may be quite
lot of good ones among them; bur
we know what they've done to this
country, and we know what they mean
to do to ours. SO were going to at
tend to them. OF course that's why
I'm here. 1t wasn't you.
Don't forget to write pretty soon,
Dora. You say in your letter. GER
tainly was glad to get that letter.
well, you say have things to do more
important than girls Dora. | think
you probably know without my saying
so that of course while have got i'm
portant things to do, just as every
man over here has, and everybody at
home, for that matter, well, the thing
that Is most important in the world To
me, next TO helping win this war, it's
reading the next letter from you.
Don't forget how glad I'll be to get
it, and don't forget you didn't have
anything to do with my being over
mere That was--it was something
else And you bet, whatever happens
I'm glad | came! Don't ever forget
thatr'
Dora knew it was Something else"
Her memory went back to her first rec
objection Of him in school from that
time on he had been just All ordinary.
everyday boy, hounderlng somehow
through his lessons in school and
through his sweethearting with Milla.
as the millions of other BOYS foun-
dered along with their own lessons
, and their own Millas. She saw him
swinging his books and romping home
ward from the schoolhouse, or going
whistling by her fathers front yard.
rafting stick on the fence as he
went, care-free and masterful. but shy
AS a deer if strangers looked at him.
ana always mot much of a lalker."
She had always felt so superior To-
MN; she shuddered as she thought of
II. His quiet had been so much better
thah her talk. His intelligence was
proven now, when Ii came to the great
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