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Suddenly he was gone, and Clayton, following uneasily to the doorway,

heard a slam below When, some hours later, Graham had not come back,

he fell into the heavy sleep that follows anxiety and brings no rest In

the e and taken

his car, and that he had not returned

Afterward Clayton was to look back and to remember with surprise how

completely the war crisis had found hiroup

But perhaps in the back of everyof his own human contacts It was only when those were

cleared up that he saw the bigger problem The ser vision

He went out into the country the next day, a cold Sunday, going afoot,

his head down against the wind, and walked for ard

and tired when he came back, but his quiet face held a new resolve

War had co for

happiness, forget himself He would not make money out of the nation's

necessity He would put Audrey out of his mind, if not out of his heart