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He drew up a chair and waited, but the girl smiled rather tremulously

"Perhaps we'd better wait, if you feel that way, Harvey"

His face was set as he looked at her

"There's only one thing I want to know," he said "And I've got a right

to know that You're a young girl, and you're beautiful--to me, anyhow

You've been over there with a lot of crazy foreigners" He got up again

and all the bitterness of the empty months was in his voice "Did any

of them--was there anybody there you cared about?"

"I came back, Harvey"

"That's not the question"

"There were many men--officers--ere kind to me I--"

"That's not the question, either"

"If I had loved any one more than I loved you I should not have come

back"

"Wait a minute!" he said quickly "You had to colishwoman who took over my work asked me

to stay on and help her"

He was satisfied then He went back to the arht," he said "I've suffered the tortures of the da else I'm sick of