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"How about--Rust?"

"He's dead"

The winter came, with its bleak sea winds and cold rains and blizzards

of snow Carley did not go South She read and brooded, and gradually

avoided all save those true friends who tolerated her

She went to the theater a good deal, showing preference for the drao anywhere for amusement Distraction

and amusement seemed to be dead issues for her But she could becoood or evil of the present day

Socialism reached into her mind, to be rejected She had never

understood it clearly, but it seemed to her a state of mind where

dissatisfied ifted people possessed There were a feho had too oods and many who had too little A readjustment of such

inequality and injustice must come, but Carley did not see the remedy in

Socialism

She devoured books on the ith a morbid curiosity and hope that she

would find so

young lory and prime of their lives To her war appeared a

matter of human nature rather than politics Hate really was an effect

of war In her judgment future wars could be avoided only in tays--byto have

children to be sacrificed As there seemed no indication whatever of