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Not that she said all that, even to herself There was a wave of

gladness and then a surge of remorse That is all But it was a very

sober Sara Lee who put on her black suit with the white collar that

afternoon and ordered, by Jean's suggestion, the evening's preparations

as though nothing was to happen

She looked round her little rooht not be

there when she returned So she placed Harvey's photograph under her

mattress for safety, and rather uncomfortably she laid beside it the

small ivory crucifix that Henri had found in a ruined house and brought

to her Harvey was not a Catholic He did not believe in visualizing

his religion And she had a distinct is as did so as bordering on idolatry

So the ammunition train e a dispatch rider on alorry at the head of the procession and delivered

a ht of a sheltered match The

train e It went beyond

to a place of safety, and there re close in a field, had seen a skulking