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She was lavish with money--but never with herself

In the weeks after the opening of the new year Clayton found hi her He wondered so

the hours when she sat, her hands folded, gazing into space He could

not tell He surown, a hat, a party

But late in January he began to think that she was planning soht, and he had

asserted not only that as co, but that ould be driven to

conscription to raise an army

"They've all had to come to it," he insisted "And ill, as sure as

God made little fishes You can't raise a million volunteers for a war

that's three thousandclass?" Natalie had asked

naively, and there had been a roar of laughter

"Not at all," Terry had said And chuckled "This war, if it comes, is

every ive ive"

"I think that's ridiculous," Natalie had said

It was after that that Clayton began to wonder what she was planning