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"What has the draft law to do with Mrs Valentine?"

"Why, you knohat she was doing, don't you?"

"I haven't seen her recently"

The rector half-stopped

"Well!" he said "Letht and day after day She's done wonders

Standing in a wagon, ht By George, I went home and tore up a sermon I had been

working on for days"

Why hadn't he known? Why hadn't he realized that that was exactly the

sort of thing she would do? There was bitterness in his heart, too

He ht easily have stood unseen in the crowd, and have watched and

listened and been proud of her Then, these last weeks, when he had been

working, or dining out, or sitting dreary and bored in a theater, she

had been out in the streets Ah, she lived, did Audrey Others worked

and played, but she lived Audrey! Audrey!

"--in the rain," the rector was saying "But she didn'tover here, andon the fellows in the trenches But I tell you, I'd rather

be over there, up tofor a

doorway here' They had started to run out of the shower, but at that