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"I've had a lot of people jolly me, but never anybody so much as those soldiers not even the scouts. I'll miss 'em going back." "The next lot you bring over will be just the same, Tom. They'll jolly you, too." "I don't mind it," said Tom. "But one thing I was thinking " Mr. Conne rested his hand on Tom's shoulder and smiled very pleasantly at him.
And, on the same manner, if thou be in speaking, or in any such other work that is common to the course of kind, if it be needful and speedful to thee to be still, and for to set thee to the contrary, as is onliness to company, fasting to eating, and all such other the which are works of singular holiness, it will stir thee to them; so that thus, by experience of such a blind stirring of love unto God, a contemplative soul cometh sooner to that grace of discretion for to conne speak, and for to conne be still, for to conne eat, and for to conne fast, for to conne be in company, and for to conne be only, and all such other, than by any such singularities as thou speakest of, taken by the stirrings of man's own wit and his will within in himself, or yet by the ensample of any other man's doing without, what so it be.
Instantly Tom thought of his experience of the previous night and there arose in his mind also certain passages from one of the letters he had turned over to Mr. Conne. Acting on his benefactor's very sensible advice, he had not allowed his mind to dwell upon those mysterious things which were altogether outside his humble sphere.
"I'm going across on a fast ship to-morrow myself," continued Mr. Conne, greatly to Tom's surprise. "I'll be in Liverpool and London and probably in France before you get there. There's a bare possibility of you seeing me over there." "I hope I do," said Tom.
It was easy for Tom to believe that Mr. Conne was re-reading the letter just to himself or to himself and Tom. "Let's see now but, as you say, everything for the Fatherland. If you receive this, let them know that I'll have my arms crossed and to be careful before they shoot. I wish he'd cross his arms when he comes ashore. He's evidently planning to get himself captured.
His line of reasoning seemed to be lifted quietly away from him. Mr. Conne was turning the kaleidoscope and showing him new designs. "He took L. home for the holidays," he quietly observed. "Old Piff and the boys." "I I didn't think of that," said Tom, rather crestfallen. "You didn't ride fast enough and make enough noise," Mr. Conne said.
He told how it used to make him mad when his brother "got licked unfair," as he said, and he did not know why Mr. Conne screwed up his face at that. He told about how he "had to decide quick, kind of," when the officers confronted him in his brother's stateroom, and how the thought about Uncle Sam being his uncle had decided him.
He was delighted at the thought of participation in this matter. He knew Mr. Conne liked him and had at least a good enough opinion of him to adopt the appearance of conferring with him. Mr. Conne's rather whimsical attitude toward this conference did not lessen his pride. "Let's see now," said the detective. "This thing evidently went through Holland in code. It's a rendering."
Conne stood upon the platform amid a throng of French people and watched the last contingent of the boys as they called back cheerily from the queer-looking freight cars which were to bear them up through the French country to that mysterious "somewhere" the most famous place in France. "So long, Whitey!" they called. "See you later."
"Anyway, I'm sure the feller wouldn't be an engineer, 'cause mostly they're behind the lines. So I thought maybe he'd be a surgeon " Mr. Conne was whistling, almost inaudibly, his eyes fixed upon the flagpole opposite. "He was educated at Heidelberg," said he. "I didn't think of that," said Tom. "It's where he met L." Tom said nothing.
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