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We don't pass Mother Gervaise's place any more." Ruth looked at him sadly but questioningly. "Do you believe that story they tell about one of our young officers having gone over to the enemy?" she asked. Holdness flushed vividly. "I didn't know him. I've got no opinion on the matter, Miss Fielding," he said.
After all, she had been assigned to the job there and must not desert it. An ambulance was going down to Clair with its burden of wounded men, and Ruth was assigned to the seat beside the driver. He chanced to be "Cub" Holdness, one of the ambulance drivers to whom Ruth had been introduced by Charlie Bragg at Mother Gervaise's cottage the night of her trip up to the field hospital.
"But the Germans have been gone from this district so long now!" she cried. "They may have their spies here. In fact," grumbled Holdness, "we are sure they do have friends in the sector." "Oh!" "You know that Devil Corner Charlie Bragg drove you past the other night? The shells have torn that all to pieces. We have to go fully two miles around by another road to get to Clair.
Holdness was plainly delighted to have the girl with him for the drive to Clair. He was a Philadelphia boy, and he confessed to having had no chance to drive a girl even in an ambulance since coming over. "I had one of those 'reckless roadsters' back home," he sighed.
"Hello, Bragg!" was the response from the other ambulance drivers. "Cub Holdness and Mr. Francis Dwyer," said Charlie, introducing the two. "I've got stalled, fellows." He swiftly told of the accident and the two young men left the table. The Frenchwoman turned and waddled toward the table, stirring spoon in hand and volubly objecting. "Non, non!" she cried. "You would spoil the so-good ragout.
Hence Christ also, when he would have us to pray with godly boldness, put this word FATHER into our mouths, saying, "When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven;" concluding thereby that in the familiarity which by such a word is intimated, the children of God may take more holdness to pray for and ask great things.
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