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"We may surprise you by coming back in 'civies' a week or two from now," Will laughed, as the girls prepared to spin them to the railroad station in the cars. "So you had better be prepared for the shock." "Maybe they won't care for us any more when they see us out of uniform," grinned Roy, as he shook hands with Mrs. Irving.

To be able to purchase from the inhabitants almost every conceivable necessity dear to the heart of the soldier, to mingle freely with "civies," to walk on hard, firm roads, theatres, cinemas, and to mingle nightly with other regiments compensated somewhat for what had passed.

Finding the Major pacing up and down before the machine, his slight limp aggravated by his very evident irritation, they were about to pass as if they didn't know there was a plane within a hundred miles, when they were halted by the upraised hand of the Major. Immediately both boys clicked heels and saluted. Then they felt foolish for saluting in "civies."

"When I get into civies and walk out of here...." His plans for six months' holiday "are all writ down in me notebook." "But what shall you do, Scutts? Go to London?" "London!... No towns fer me!" He will not tell us what he is going to do. Secretly I believe it is something he wanted to do as a boy but thought himself a fool to carry out when he was a man: perhaps it is a sort of walking tour.

Comic and melodious songs were rendered with equal gusto; the Royal Artillery rivalled the D.F. Artillery, and Tommy Atkins, the merchants, shopboys, clerks, and "civies" generally. The services of an Irishman born great, by virtue of the brogue with which he kicked Off to Philadelphia were in great demand at all the halls.

But in civies, even a frock coat, I've an idea she wouldn't recognize me as a noble hero. Eh?" "Might be something in that," I admits. "But if I had the ring that she gave me her token well, you see?" goes on Waddy. "I must have it. So I must find Bruzinski." "Yes, that's your play," I agrees. "Where did he hail from?"

"What will it be like, Scutts?" we ask. "Can you move it? Can you sleep in it? Did he match your other carefully?" "You'll see," he says confidently. "It's grand." "When I get my eye...." he says, almost with the same longing with which he says "When I get into civies...." Scutts is not one of those whose life is stopped; he has made plans.

How many hours do you suppose were wasted by the new army practicing salutes in front of a mirror? A good many right arms to-day, back in "civies," have a stuttering fit whenever they approach a uniform. And I know a number of conventional gentlemen who are suffering hours of torment because they can't remember, out of uniform, to take off their hats to the women they meet.

What antics we witnessed, good humored miscues and errors of form in meeting our friends of different lands all gathered there in the strange potpourri. Soldiers and "civies" of high and low rank, cultured and ignorant, and rich and poor, hearty and well, and halting and lame, mingled in Archangel, the half-shabby, half-neat, half-modern, half-ancient, summer-time port on the far northern sea.

"We may surprise you by coming back in 'civies' a week or two from now," Will laughed, as the girls prepared to spin them to the railroad station in the cars. "So you had better be prepared for the shock." "Maybe they won't care for us any more when they see us out of uniform," grinned Roy, as he shook hands with Mrs. Irving.