d, there
was a short half-minute of waving of good-bys, and I walked back alone
across the empty drill field.

I am sitting now upon my bag in the tent which has so often rung with our
laughter or buzzed with our talk. Here are the ridges and hollows made by
our feet, over in the corner are Clay's old shoes, and near me lie three
empty shells that David threw out of his pocket. Our equipment is all
turned in, the buzzards in our absence carried everything else away, and
this lonely silence is more than I can bear. In a few minutes I shall
close this last letter to you; then Frances will come in the car to take
me to a telegraph office, where I shall wire you that she and I are
starting home tomorrow with the Chapmans, and shall not be home for three
days more. As I shall hint at the reason, you will understand and will
forgive me this delay. I know, dear mother, that your heart always was
with Frances, after all.

And so good-by to Plattsburg!

DICK

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