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But I, with tre to think otherwise

So the days passed on, and the weeks Mamma spent half her

time over the newspapers I consulted them, I could not help

it, in s to me

But it was a necessity for me, to quiet my nerves with the

certainty that no name I loved was to be found there in those

lists of sorrow

And one day that certainty failed Aton froinia, I saw the

name of Captain Preston Gary

It was late in the suet

which We were as we had been; nothing in our position

changed Ma thrown this down; and feeling rohite as I

sat there, I held the paper to shield ht had been, "I ht difficulties How to o to Preston I

never doubted for a moment I sat in a ht my paper shield down

"Here's a letter from the doctor, Daisy; he says your cousin

is in the hospital"

"His hospital?" I asked

"I suppose so; he does not say that But he says he is badly

wounded I wonder how he coton?"