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Snow, if this grandson of yours was a genuine press-touted, women's club poet instead of a would-be well, I don't know what might happen. In that case she might be as strong FOR this engagement as she is now against it." He paused, seeming a bit ashamed of his own heat. Captain Zelotes, however, regarded him with more approval than he had yet shown.
The Secretary of War, through his representative, regretted to inform Captain Zelotes Snow that Sergeant Albert Speranza had been killed in action upon a certain day. It was enough, however for the time quite enough. It was not until later that the little group of South Harniss recovered sufficiently from the stunning effect of those few words to think of seeking particulars.
When they passed the office-windows she looked the other way, but before she was well past, her aunt Eva hit her violently and laughed loudly. Ellen shrank, coloring a deep crimson. Then her mother also laughed, and even Amabel, shrilly, with precocious recognition of the situation. Only Mrs. Zelotes stalked along in silent dignity. "Don't laugh so loud, he'll hear you," said she, severely.
But it was noticed and commented upon, you may be sure by his wife and housekeeper that the Transcript was likely to be, before the reading had progressed far, either in the captain's lap or on the floor. And when the discussion following the reading was under way Captain Zelotes' opinions were expressed quite as freely as any one's else. Laban Keeler got into the habit of dropping in to listen.
The spring meeting of the Welfare Workers was not a success. The following day Mr. Calvin called at the office of Z. Snow and Co. He had things to say and said them. Captain Zelotes, who had returned from Boston, listened. Then he called his grandson. "Tell him what you've just told me, Mr. Calvin," he said. The reverend gentleman told it, with added details.
"Seven o'clock! Time to turn out." The voice was his grandfather's. "Oh oh, all right!" he answered. "Understand me, do you?" "Yes yes, sir. I'll be right down." The stairs creaked as Captain Zelotes descended them. Albert yawned cavernously, stretched and slid one foot out of bed. He drew it back instantly, however, for the sensation was that of having thrust it into a bucket of cold water.
"I know. And Helen's always . . . But there, Mother, don't you worry about Helen Kendall. I've known her since she was born, pretty nigh, and I tell you she's all RIGHT." Fosdick, in his letter, had asked for particulars concerning Albert's death. Those particulars were slow in coming. Captain Zelotes wrote at once to the War Department, but received little satisfaction.
"All the town will know what doings there are in our family." Mrs. Zelotes made up her mind to a course of action.
"Was he dead when you got there, Ellen?" called out Lee. Mrs. Zelotes turned back and looked at him. "It's after midnight, and time for you to be goin' home," she said. Then the three disappeared. Lee grinned sheepishly at Andrew. "Your mother is a stepper of an old woman," said he. "It's awful news," said Andrew, soberly. "Whatever anybody may have felt, nobody expected "
She looked anxious yes, but she looked eager, too, and her gaze was fixed upon her husband's face. "Oh!" she said, softly. "Oh! . . . And and what did you say, Zelotes?" "What did I say? What do you suppose I said? I said no, and I said it good and loud, too." Olive made no comment.
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