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She and Ailsa bade a hasty and excited good-bye to the ladies of the class; thanked Dr. Benton; listened solemnly to instructions; promised to obey; and gave him tremulous hands in leave taking. "If those ungrateful dogs of soldiers don't appreciate you two young ladies, come home on the next train, where you'll be appreciated," grumbled the doctor. "Anyway, God bless you both.
And every figure in uniform thrilled the girl with suppressed excitement and pride. Berkley, eyeing them askance, began blandly: "Citizens of martial minds, Uniforms of wondrous kinds, Wonderful the sights we see Ailsa, you'll agree with me." "Are you utterly without human feeling?" she demanded. "Because, if you are, there isn't the slightest use of my pretending to be civil to you any longer."
"You mean in talking ahem! treason to sick Confederates? I don't have to, dear." "And. . . you must never mention anything concerning what you see inside our lines. You understand that, of course, don't you, darling?" "I hadn't thought about it," said Celia musingly. Ailsa added vaguely: "There's always a government detective hanging around the hospital."
"Need you ask?" queried Diana. "Doesn't Major Carew ever growl when he is here?" Ailsa looked much amused. "Not exactly," she said; "but I admit sometimes he rolls himself up into a ball, so to speak, and relapses into a sort of winter sleep." "I hope you prod him," said Diana. "Billy wouldn't let me," glancing affectionately at her husband. "There is only one Major Carew for him."
"Thank God you managed to do it. I was horribly afraid you would not," said Ailsa in a palpitating whisper. "You need not have been," he answered. "I know a dozen places besides 'The Inn of the Twisted Arm' from which one can get into the sewers.
Ailsa read the brief note a second time, but to herself. Then, with hands which had become curiously steady, she refolded it, retaining it in her possession with a strangely detached air. It was almost as if she had forgotten it, and that her thoughts had flown in a direction which had nothing to do with the letter, or the Padre, or
But he went away to business that morning with his father, as usual; and when evening came the two men returned, anxious, dead tired, having passed most of the day standing in the dense throngs that choked every street around the bulletin boards of the newspaper offices. Ailsa had not been out during the day, nor had Mrs.
I want you to consider it; every instinct of loyalty, friendship, trust, modesty had apparently been outraged and trampled on by the man she had given her heart to, and by the woman she had made a friend. That was the position in which Ailsa Paige found herself when she learned of these charges, saw the evidence, and was informed by Hallam that he had forwarded his complaint."
Paige is not likely ever to become interested in me." "I am heartily glad of it," retorted Camilla. "You'd forget her in a week," "That's more than forty-eight hours," he said, laughing. "You're flattering me now." "Anyway," said Camilla, "I don't see why everybody that knows her isn't mad about Ailsa Paige.
But when fisticuffs appeared imminent in mid-stream, out of somewhat tardy consideration for Ailsa he set free the dove of peace. "Perhaps," he remarked pleasantly, "the fleet couldn't cross the bar. I've heard of such things." And as nobody had thought of that, hostilities were averted. Paddle-wheels churning, the rotund boat swung into the Brooklyn dock.
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