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He waited on the to anticipate every need, and s to the quiet hillside above the ca had set her dainty foot-print He spread down his thick army blanket for them to sit upon and they held sweet converse for an hour or two He told them of camp life and as expected to be when they started over, and when they reached the other side

His mother was brave and sensible Soestion of what her boy was soon to bear or do, but she wore a seous and sweet as any saint could wear The boy saw and grew tender over it A bird ca over their heads, and the s and quiet with the brooding tenderness of parting that hung over the busy camp Ruth had one awful moment of adjustment when she tried to think how her aunt Rhoda would look if she could see her now; then she threw the whole thing to the winds and resolved to enjoy the day She saw that while the conventions by which she had been reared were a good thing in general, perhaps, they certainly were not meant to hamper or hinder the true and natural life of the heart, or, if they were, they were not good things; and she entered into the moment with her full syirl she had brought up knew that it was good to be here Her aunt ay from home with an invalid friend on a short trip so there had been no one to question Ruth's ton with a "friend from the Red Cross" and incidentally visit the camp a little while

He had them over the camp by and by, to the trenches and dummies, and all the paraphernalia of war preparation Then they went back to the Hostess' House and fell into line to get dinner As Ca down at Ruth in the crowded line in the democratic hich was the only way there was, it cae and wonderful it was that they tho had seen each other so little in their lives and who had come froether in that beautiful intiht froain Cahts then for a moment to find out if there was a shadow of h she flushed consciously her sweet true eyes gave back only the pleasure she was feeling, and her real enjoyment of the day Then instantly each of them felt that another crisis had been passed in their friendship, another so unseen and beautiful had happened that otten nothey would not have missed for any other experience