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'Couldn't put it better if you tried, could you?' Then he said,
hesitating a little as he turned down the leaf, and put the book in
his pocket, 'Five of the fellows who were in the Sixth with me this
time last year are dead by now. It makes you think a bit, doesn't
it?--Hullo, there is father!'
He turned joyously, his young figure finely caught in the light of
Elizabeth's lamp against the background of the Nike.
'Well, father you have been a time! I thought you'd forgotten
altogether I was off to-night.'
'The train was abominably late. Travelling is becoming a perfect
nuisance! I gave the station-master a piece of my mind,' said the
Squire angrily.
'And I expect he said that you civilians jolly well have to wait for
the munition trains!'
'He muttered some nonsense of that sort. I didn't listen to him.'
The Squire threw himself down in an arm-chair. Desmond perched on
the corner of a table near. Elizabeth discreetly took up her work
and disappeared.
'How much time have you got?' asked the Squire abruptly.


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