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Updated: June 4, 2025
Prices of every commodity were at their highest peak, and supply could not equal demand. An orgy of spending was in full swing, and all men in business, especially the profiteers, were making the most of the unprecedented opportunity. After he had rested, Lane boarded a street car and rode out to the suburbs of Middleville where the Maynards lived.
I tried to get fitted in the kind of shoes you girls have," and Grace looked at the stout and substantial walking boots of her companions, "but they didn't have my size. The man is going to send for them, and he said he'd forward them to Middleville. They'll be there when we arrive." "All right, as long as you're going to get them," spoke Betty.
"We'll leave Deepdale early in the morning," she said, "and go on to Rockford. There we're due to stop with my aunt. We can take lunch wherever we find it most convenient, but we'll make Rockford at dusk, I hope." "I certainly trust so," said Mollie. "A night on a country road never, my dear!" "The next night we'll stop in Middleville," went on Betty, "at Amy's cousin's house.
"Heavens, how things come about! My officer was from Middleville." "Daren! Who?" she asked, quickly, her eyes darkening with thought. "Captain Vane Thesel." How singular to Lane the fact she did not laugh! She only stared. Then it seemed part of her warmth and glow, her subtle response to his emotion, slowly receded. He felt what he could not see. "Oh! He.
"Let me get this off my chest, will you?... We girls are getting talked about. There's no use denying it. Any but a blind girl could see it. And it's because we do what the men want. Every girl wants to go out to be attractive to have fellows. But the price is getting high. They say in Middleville that I'm rushed more than any other girl.
Have these facts anything to do with your motive?" "No, Chief," replied Lane, in sarcasm. "But when I got into action I think the facts you mentioned sort of rejuvenated a disabled soldier." "Lane, you beat me," declared Bell, shaking his head. "Why, I had you figured as a pretty good chap.... But you've done some queer things in Middleville."
They called the attention of others to it, but, by the time glasses and telescopes had been brought to bear, the Red Cloud was far away. "Dry clothes now, some hot drinks, and then Tom will tell us his secret," remarked Mr. Sharp, and, with the great ship swaying high above the city of Middleville Tom told what he had heard in the office building.
For what he read, as he leaned over, was this: Tom gave a cry. "What's the matter?" called Mr. Sharp. "I've discovered something," answered Tom, hurrying up to his friend. "We're on top of the Middleville Arcade building." "What does that mean?" "It means that we're not so very far from home, and in the midst of a fairly large city. But it means more than that."
He desired to plant in Iden's mind the fact that he had left Middleville long before the wild era of soldier-and-girl attraction which had created such havoc. Acutely sensitive as Lane was, he could not be sure of an alteration in Iden's aloofness, yet there was some slight change. Then he talked frankly about specific phases of the war.
"On the level, I could scream like a madman." "I'd like to weep," replied the other, with a half laugh. "Where's Red? He oughtn't miss this." "Poor devil! He sneaked off from me somewhere," rejoined Maynard. "Red's in pretty bad shape again. The voyage has been hard on him. I hope he'll be well enough to get his discharge when we land. I'll take him home to Middleville."
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