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She akened by the rattling of the pots and pans in the tiny kitchen She sat up startled and looked about her It was very early The first sunlight was streah thescreens, and the freshness of thewas everywhere, for all the ere wide open The stillness of the country, broken only by the joyous chorus of the birds, struck her as a wonderful thing She lay down again and closed her eyes to listen Music with the scent of clover! The cheery little horound for the peace of the Sabbath ht of ca at the one Orders were so uncertain In the army a man must be ready to move at a moment's notice What if while she slept he had passed by on one of those terrible troop trains!

She sat up again and began to put her hair into order andas a sudden move should occur he would throw out an old envelope with his nao out to that railroad track and eneral public were up

Mrs Ca soundly, one orn hand partly shading her face Ruth knew instinctively that shedawn she drooped on the hard little cot in a cruirl's heart ached for her sorrow

Ruth stole into the kitchen to ask for water to wash her face: "I' coffee and frying bacon, "but the wash basins are all gone; we've had so ot this water for et so yet and we have to go down the road quite a piece to get any This is all there was left last night"

She handed Ruth a two-gallon galvanized tin bucket containing a couple of inches of water, obviously clean, and added a brief towel to the toilet arrangements

Ruth beat a hasty retreat back to the shelter of the piano with her collection, fearing lesthow her aunt would look if she could see her washing her face in this pittance of water in the botto bucket