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And I'd
like to feel that now and then you are seeing Audrey, and bucking
her up a bit. I think she's rather down.
"Do you know, Clay, I think this is a darned critical time. The
press, hasn't got it yet, but both the British and the French are
hard up against it. They'll fight until there is no one left to
fight, but these damned Germans seem to have no breaking-point.
They haven't any temperament, I daresay, or maybe it is soul they
lack. But they'll fight to the last man also, and the plain truth
is that there are too many of them.
"It looks mighty bad, unless we come in. And I don't mind saying
that there are a good many eyes over here straining across the old
Atlantic. Are we doing anything, I wonder? Getting ready? The
officers here say we can't expand an army to get enough men without
a draft law. Can you see the administration endangering the next
election with a draft law? Not on your life.
"I'm on the wagon, Clay. Honestly, it's funny. I don't mind
telling you I'm darned miserable sometimes.


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