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I used to fish and hunt there a good deal." Two weeks passed by and Daren felt himself slowly but surely getting stronger. Every morning when he came down to breakfast he felt a little better, had a little more color in his pale cheeks. At first he could not eat, but as the days went by he regained an appetite which, to Mel's delight, manifestly grew stronger.
But he said that as the indecent dress and obscene dance of the young women could no longer be influenced by the home or the church it was well that one young man had the daring to fling the truth into the faces of their mothers." "Oh, it was rotten of Daren," replied Margaret, with tears in her eyes. She was ashamed, indignant, incredulous. "For him to do a thing like that!
"Daren, you were never like this as a boy," she said, in wondering distress. "Like what?" "You're hard. You used to be so so gentle and nice." "Hard! I? Yes, Mel, perhaps I am hard as war, hard as modern life, hard as my old friends, my little sister " he broke off. "Daren, do not mock me," she entreated. "I should not have said hard. But you're strange to me a something terrible flashes from you.
He and Dick Swann and Hardy MacLean sometimes drop in at the Armory on Saturday nights. Captain Thesel is chasing Mrs. Clemhorn now. They're always together.... Daren, did he ever have it in for you?" "He never liked me. We never got along here in Middleville. And naturally in the service when he was a captain and I only a private we didn't get along any better."
Lane read in Bessy Bell then more of the truth of her than he had yet divined. Falsehood was naturally abhorrent to her. To lie to her parents or teachers savored of fun, and was part of the game. She did not want to lie to Lane, but in her code she could not betray another girl, especially to that girl's brother. "Daren, I promised I'd tell you all about myself," she said.
Every word his mother uttered was news, surprising, unusual, as if it emanated from a home-world that had changed. And presently she dropped into complaint at the hard times and the cost of everything. "Mother," he interrupted, "I didn't blow my money. I've saved nearly a year's pay. It's yours." "But, Daren, you'll need money," she protested. "Not much.
But that's not the point. Daren's disgraced himself. It was rotten of him. And I'll never forgive him, either." "Don't cry, Margie," said Elinor. "It always makes your eyes red and gives you a headache. Poor Daren made a blunder. But some of us will stick to him. Don't take it so badly." "Margie, it was rotten of Daren, one way you look at it our way," added Flossie.
Let us reach our hands across for the baby's sake." "Daren, it is a beautiful thought, but it it can't be," she whispered. "Then let me come to see you when I need when I'm down," he begged. "No." "Mel, what harm can it do just to let me come?" "No don't ask me. Daren, I am no stone." "You'll be sorry when I'm out there in Woodlawn.... That won't be long."
"Oh, Daren don't you know me?" she asked. "Mel Iden!" he burst out. "Know you? I should smile I do. But it it was so sudden. And you're older different somehow. Mel, you're sweeter why you're beautiful." He clasped her hands and held on to them, until he felt her rather nervously trying to withdraw them. "Oh, Daren, I'm glad to see you home alive whole," she said, almost in a whisper.
Next his gaze on Mackay did not require the accompaniment of a query. "I was under weight. They wouldn't accept me," he explained. Bessy Bell looked at Mackay disdainfully. "Why didn't you drink a bucketful of water same as Billy Means did? He got in." Helen laughed gayly. "What! Mac drink water? He'd be ill.... Come, let's dance. Dick put on that new one. Daren, you can watch us dance."
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