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She dared not invite him to the house she had rented, for Jim would be there. She could not go to Strathdene's rooms at the Hilltop Inn. She thought of the apartment she had stowed her mother in, and asked him there. Then she telephoned her mother to suppress dad and keep out of sight.
Having no commerce of her own afloat, it was safe for Germany to sink any vessel anywhere. Kedzie began to wonder if she would ever dare to sail for he future ancestral home, and if she did how long her ship would last. On February 3d the U-53, which had sunk Strathdene's ship off Newport, sank an American freighter bound from Galveston to Liverpool.
He flung away his salted and extinguished cigarette and wondered what was the matter with the world where nothing ever came out right. His own mother was weeping all the time and her letters told always of new losses. The newspapers kept printing stories of Strathdene's chums being put away in a trench or a hospital, or falling from the clouds dead.
Before long Kedzie would be saying that fate had taken all this trouble just to bring him and her together. In the transfer from the ship to the lifeboat Strathdene's wounds were wrenched and his sufferings renewed. He was lucky enough to fall into the hands of Charity Coe Cheever. She was a war nurse of experience, and he was soon well enough to try to flirt with her.
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