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He was glad when the orders came for hias school and go through two solid hours of instruction ending with a practical illustration of the gas as It helped to put his reat business of hich was to be his only business now until it or he were ended He set his lips griorously What did it ht of him? He need never answer another letter, even if she wrote He need not accept the package from the post office He could let them send it back--refuse it and let theht think what she liked Perhaps she would suppose hiet her! It was the only sensible thing to do

Meanwhile the letter had flown on its ith more than ordinary swiftness, as if it had known that a force was seeking to bring it back again The YMCA h speed in an automobile to the nearest station to the camp, and arrived in ti In the Baltiatherer arrived with his keys to open the box So the letter lost no tiht, and by some happy chance arrived at its destination in time to be laid by Ruth Macdonald's plate at lunch time the next day

Soathered her mail up and slipped it unobtrusively into the pocket of her skirt before it could be noticed Dottie Wetherill had cole on the envelope was so conspicuous Dottie was crazy over soldiers and all things military She would be sure to exclaim and ask questions She was one of those people who always found out everything about you that you did not keep under absolute lock and key

Every day since she had written her letter to Ca sometimes with the least bit of mortification that she should have written at all to have received this rebuff Had he, after all, one to the front? She had al an answer now after so many weeks, and the nice war legs and bright lines of color at the top, with the wristlets and muffler lay wrapped in tissue paper at the very bottom of a drawer in the chiffonier where she would seldom see it and where no one else would ever find it and question her Probably by and by when the colored draftees were sent away she would get theiven to so to tell herself that it was all her own fault and a good lesson for her She had even decided not to go and see John Caht be misunderstood It seemed that the frank true instincts of her own heart had been wrong, and she was getting what she justly deserved for departing from Aunt Rhoda's strictly conventional code