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On the way back she passed a nu soldiers home on twenty-four hour leave froerly, and she knew that any one of theladly occupied the vacant seat in her car, but she was not in theto be thought out and fixed in her mind, some impression that life had for her that afternoon that she did not want to lose in the ay banter that would be sure to follow if she stopped and took horaciously and swept by at a high speed as if in a great hurry The war! The war! It was beating itself into her brain again inwhen the drafted men went away, only now it had taken on athe lonely vine-clad house where that one soldier had lived, and which he had left so desolate She kept thinking how many such ho when she was free to go to her roo almost as if she were childish in her haste, she sat down and wrote an answer So made her feel his wish for an answer It seemed a mute appeal that she could not resist

When John Cae he was lifted into the seventh heaven for a little while He forgot all his ht who had but that day beco been transferred to Ca officer in absence of the captain, and where frequent salutes would be inevitable It had been a terrible blow to Cameron But now it suddenly seemed a small matter He put on his neeater and swelled around the way the other boys did, letting them all admire hi a large curious finger gently on the red and blue stripes and thrilling with the thought that her fingers had plied the needles in those many, many stitches to e to wear them, and he laid them away most carefully and locked them into the box under his bed lest some other fellow should admire and desire them to his loss But with the letter he walked away into the woods as far as the bounds of the ca at last fro fasting It was on the way back to his barracks that night, walking slowly under the starlight, not desiring to be back until the last ht taps because he did not wish to break the wonderful evening he had spent with her, that he resolved to try to get leave the next Saturday and go home to thank her