ous, Don, and I should be working
with you, perhaps, but ... No, I must keep on doing as I have planned. I
can't falter or fail now, Don. There is going to be greater need every
day, not for helpers, but for trained workers. When this awful war is
ended and the weary, weary world turns back to peaceful pursuits, its
hope and salvation will lie in its babies. Won't it, Don? I would like
to help those babies over in France; sometimes I dream of being a Red
Cross nurse and helping the poor, wounded soldiers; but I am sure that
it is better for me to keep on making myself ready to serve the coming
generations to the best of my fully trained ability. Don't you think so,
too, Don?"

Her words had rung firm and true until the last question, when there
crept in a note which seemed to his ears to carry an appeal for him to
disagree, and argue with her; but the man answered, "Yes, dear. You are
dead right, and I felt certain that you would say what you have said.
You have got to stay until you are trained; I have got to go, because I
am. You see that, don't you?"

"Yes. Oh, I shall miss you awfully, Don; I can't tell you how much. But
I want you to go. And I mean to pray for you, and the poor little babies
over there, too. I'll write you as often as I can; as often as you want
me to."

"That's fine," he answered heartily. "But, as I told you once before,
don't feel hurt if I answer only occasionally. I have a suspicion that
there will be plenty of work for me to do over there."

"Yes, I'll understand. Besides, you will have to write to ... to Miss
Treville more than to me. Are you ... are you going to get married
before you go?"

"Married? Good Lord, no ... that is, I hadn't even thought of it," he
said with a forced laugh. "Why, I haven't even told her yet that I am
going."

"You haven't? You told me, first?"

"Well ... er ... you see I had to tell you, because ... because I ... I
hold a position of trust in respect to you, and have got to make
arrangements for your future. Big Jerry told me to use my own judgment
about your money, and I believe that you are fully competent to take
care both of yourself and of it.

"Here," he drew a small package from his side pocket, "is a bank
deposit and check book, for I have already had the account transferred
from my name, as trustee, to you individually. Now it is up to you to
prove that you are a careful little business woman. With more than a
thousand dollars in the bank you