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Clayton smiled. So she had changed her mind. He saw Rodney bend
over her hand and kiss it after his usual ceremonious manner.
Natalie seemed a trifle breathless when she turned and saw him.
"You're early, aren't you?" she said.
"I fancy it is you who are late."
Then he realized that the chauffeur was waiting to speak to him.
"Yes, Jackson?"
"I'm sorry, sir. I guess I'll be leaving at the end of my month,
Mr. Spencer."
"Come into the library and I'll talk to you. What's wrong?"
"There's nothing wrong, sir. I have been very well suited. It's
only - I used to be in the regular army, sir, and I guess I'm going
to be needed again."
"You mean - we are going to be involved?"
"Yes, sir. I think we are."
"There's no answer to that, Jackson," he said. But a sense of
irritation stirred him as he went up the steps to the house door.
Jackson was a good man. Jackson and Klein, and who knew who would
be next?
"Oh, damn the war," he reflected rather wearily.


CHAPTER V
The winter which preceded the entrance of the United States into
the war was socially an extraordinary one.


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