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"Why are you doing it, Sara Lee?" she asked

"Doing what?"

"Marrying Harvey"

Sara Lee looked at her with startled eyes

"I'ed to him, Belle I've proood reason, is it?

It takes more than a promise" She stared down at the flock of children

in the yard below "Harvey's a ot to care a whole lot, Sara Lee, if you're going to

go through with it It takes a lot of love, when it coood, Belle How can I hurt hi him when you don't love him"

"If only I could have a little time," she cried wildly "I'et about the war and all that I've

tried Soet it

out of my mind"

"He won't talk about it?"

"He's my own brother, and I love him dearly But soly," she hastened to add; "but he's stubborn

There's a sort of wall in hi against a rock to try to get at theot hiht to be happy Sometimes