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Now and then there was one, of course, who lagged behind his fellows,

with a yearning tenderness in his face that a glance froirl would

have quickly turned to love But Sara Lee had no coquetry When, as

occasionally happened, there was a bit too much fervor when her hand was

kissed, she laid it where it belonged--to loneliness and the spring--and

became extremely maternal and very, very kind Which--both of the love

The winter floods were receding Along the Yser Canal an to appear, with here and there rusty tangles of barbed wire And

with the lessening of the flood ca drive was co indeed, everywhere but in Henri's heart

Day after day es were left with Sara Lee by men in

uniform--sometimes letters, sometimes a word And these she faithfully

cared for until such time as Jean came for them Now and then it was

Henri who cae he made his

headquarters at the house of theover the

s, he wrote his reports by laht, reports which Jean carried

back to the villa in the fishing village by the sea

However, though he no longer came and went as before, Henri made frequent

calls at the house of s, when the