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"But where?" asked Cameron anxiously "Are you sure it's respectable? I'm afraid there isn't any place there that would do at all"

"Oh, yes there is," said Ruth "It's the Salvation Army 'Hut,' they called it, but it looks more like a barracks, and there's the dearest little wo to let her do it!" put in his mother anxiously "I'm afraid her aunt wouldn't like it at all, and I'm sure she won't be comfortable"

"I shall love it!" said Ruth happily, "andabout it As for comfort, I'll be as comfortable as you are, my dear lady, and I' with your boy" She sht tears to the eyes of the ratitude and adoration So she carried her way

Cameron protested no more, but quietly enquired at the Hostess' House if the place was all right, and when he put the pressure, and said in a low tone that only she could hear, with a look that carried its et that you did this for ht-hearted in comparison to their fellow travellers, because they had a short reprieve before they would have to say good-bye But Ruth sat looking about her, at the sad-eyed girls and women who had just parted from their husbands and sons and sweethearts, and ere reat burden of the universal sorrow upon her She wondered how God could stand it The old huonies of life that have to come to cure the world of its sin, and never wonders how God can stand the sin! She felt as if she ain there ca to her soul, if she only knew God intihts, "Could anyone on this earth know God? Had anyone ever known Hi about it?" She resolved to read it through and find out

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