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If he had been going to reht have been a number of questions, social and conventional, which would have arisen to bar the way to this free feeling of a friendship, and which she would have had to meet and reason with before her oing away and on such an errand, perhaps never to return, the ht think or what the world would say, simply did not enter into the question at all The war had lifted them both above such ephemeral barriers into the place of vision where a soul was a soul no matter what he possessed or who he was So, as she sat in her big white room with all its dainty accessories to a luxurious life, fit setting for a girl so lovely, she smiled unhindered at this bit of beautiful friendship that had suddenly drifted down at her feet out of a great outside unknoorld She touched the letter thoughtfully with caressing fingers, and the kind of a high look in her eyes that a lady of old ht It came to her to wonder that she had not felt so about any other of her one into the service Why should this special one soldier boy represent the whole war, as it were, in this way to her However, it was but a passing thought, and with a sht out the finely knitted gar theave her pleasure to set aside a sement she had for that afternoon until she had posted the package herself

Even then, when she took her belated way to a little gathering in honor of one of her girl friends as going to beaviator, she kept the smile on her lips and the dreaht herself back fro pleasant had happened Not that there was any foolishness in her thoughts There was tooas she was, to allow her to deal even with her own thoughts in any but a maidenly way, and it was not in the ordinary way of asoldier He was so far removed from her life in every way, and all the well-drilled formalities, that it never occurred to her to think of hiht of her other men friends