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Late in August Sara Lee broke her engagement with Harvey She had been

away, at Cousin Jennie's, for a month, and for the first time since her

return she had had ti hours of quiet when Cousin Jenniea sort of reflected glory fros

Sara Lee decided to send for Harvey, and he caer, but with a sort of defiance too He was determined

to hold her, but to hold her on his own teruely uneasy, but Harvey's arrival seeht She even kissed hireat pains

to carry off Cousin Jennie when she showed an inclination toward

conversation and a seat on the porch

Sara Lee had made a desperate resolve She intended to lay all her

cards on the table He should know all that there was to know If,

after that, he still wanted to hold her--but she did not go so far

She was so sure he would release her

It was a despairing thing to do, but she was rather despairing those

days There had been no letter from Henri or from Jean She had written

them both several times, to Dunkirk, to the Savoy in London, to the

little house near the Front But no replies had coh Mabel Andrews' letters froust went by, with no letters save Harvey's, begging her to coave up at last In the little church on Sundays, with Jennie