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"Tell Dunbar he went to the left," a voice was saying "The left!

They'll lose him yet"

"Joey!"

"Hello," said Joey's voice He considered that he was speaking very

loud, but it was hardly more than a whisper "That wasn't your father,

was it? The old boy couldn't juhed a little, a gurgling cough that rather startled himself But

he was determined to be a man

"No I just lay down here for a nap Who was it that jumped?"

"My cousin Rudolph Do you think I can help you into the house?"

"I'll walk there myself in a minute Unless your cousin Rudolph--" His

head dropped back on her arm "I feel sort of all in" His voice trailed

off

"Joey!"

"Lemme alone," he muttered "I'm the first casualty in the American

army! I--" He made a desperate effort to speak in a her boyish notes of sixteen conquered "They certainly gave us hell

to-night But we're going to build again; me and--Clayton Spen--"

All at once he was very still Anna spoke to hiave

hione to another partnership

beyond the stars