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Sincerely, J CAMERON

He wrote that letter over and overphrases and whole sentences Perhaps it would be better to say so about "her officer friends" and make it very clear to her that he understood his own distant position with her Then suddenly he kicked the big blue blanket off and sat up with a deep sigh What a fool he was He could not write another letter The letter was gone, and as it ritten he et it back or unwrite it much as he wished it There was no excuse, or way to s, was there?

He sat staring into the darkness while the man in the next bunk roused to toss back his blanket which had fallen superfluously across his face, and to mutter some sleepy imprecations But Cameron was off on the composition of another letter:

MY DEAR MISS MACDONALD:

I have been thinking it over and have decided that I do not need a sweater or any of those other things you mention I really am pretty well supplied with necessities, and you know they don't give usaround the barracks There must be a lot of other felloho need theive your work to others who have nothing, or to those who are your personal friends

Very truly, J CAMERON

Having convinced his turbulent brain that it was quite possible for hi hiain and realized that he did not want to write it That it would be alirl, who even if she had been patronizing him, had done it with a kind intent, and after all it was not her fault that he was a fool She had a right to marry whom she would Certainly he never expected her to marry his she had offered He wanted to touch soed to him He wanted to keep thisto marry another man, she had always been his ideal of a beautiful, lovable woman, and as such she should stay his, even if she an to see that the thing that was reallylife to such a rotten little ht That was the real pain If soer, of course, should colad for her But this excuse for a eous! How could she be so deceived? and yet, of course, women knew very little of e theht of those they wished to please One could not expect the their friends But what a pity! Things were all wrong! There ought to be soers all about her and be somewhat protected It orse for Ruth Macdonald because she had no randfather was the only near living male relative and he was a hopeless invalid, almost entirely confined to the house What could he know of the young hter? What did he re been so many years shut away from their haunts?