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As the spring advanced Harvey grew increasingly bitter; grew an to think that people were

s behind his back, and when they asked about Sara Lee hebrevity what he felt was half-contemptuous kindness

He went nowhere, and worked all day and until late in the night He did

well in his business, however, and late in March he received a

substantial raise in salary He took it without enthusiasht at dinner with apathy

After the evening o to his room and there,

shut in, to read He read no books on the war, and even the quarter

column entitled Salient Points of the Day's War News hardly received a

glance from him now

In the office when the talk turned to the war, as it did alo out or scowl over his letters

"Harvey's hit hard," they said there

"He's acting like a rotten cub," was likely to be the next sentence

But so ready to get

it for France without notice! I'd be sore

ot the children to bed and

straightened up the litter of sarments that seemed always to

bestrew the house, even to the lower floor Then she went into Harvey's

roo on the bed, but not reading