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The sun was shining gloriously when the two stepped from the trolley at the little camp station and looked bewildered about the for their one They walked through the long lane lined with soldiers, held back by the great rope and guarded by Military Police Each crowding eager soldier had an air of expectancy upon him, a silence upon hi that was soon to be Inas the expected ones did not arrive Ruth's throat was filled with oppression and tears as she looked about and suddenly felt the grip of war, and realized that all these thousands were bearing this bitterness of parting, perhaps forever Death stalking up and down a battlefield, waiting to take his pick of the eyes

It was al down the lane of silent waiting soldiers, to be clai people nearer in heart than they had ever been before, when at the end of the line Cameron met them with a salute, kissed his mother, and then turned to Ruth and took her hand with an earnest grave look of deep pleasure in his eyes

He led the trees in front of the Hostess' House while all around were hushed voices, and teary eyes That firstwas the saddest and the quietest of the day with everybody, except the last parting hour when rief sat unchecked upon every face, and no one stopped to notice if any , but just lived out his real heart self, and showed his mother or his sister or his sweetheart how much he loved and suffered

That was a day which all the little painted butterflies of temptation should have been h the gates that day This was no ti, and the deep realities of life stood out and de Ruth had ever witnessed before It was a neorld It was as if the old conventions which had heretofore hedged her life were dropped like a gar life as it really was, and every one walked unashareat sorrow and need of all had obliterated the little petty rules of life, and small passions were laid aside, while hearts throbbed in a common cause