But Rudolph was satisfied. He left Herman sitting again by the
fire, but his eyes were no longer brooding. He was thinking,
watching the smoke curl up from the china-bowled German pipe which
he had brought from the Fatherland, and which he used only on
special occasions.
CHAPTER XXXIII
The declaration of war found Graham desperately unhappy. Natalie
held him rigidly to his promise, but it is doubtful if Natalie
alone could have kept, him out of the army. Marion was using her
influence, too! She held him by alternating between almost
agreeing to runaway marriage and threats of breaking the engagement
if he went to war. She had tacitly agreed to play Natalie's game,
and she was doing it.
Graham did not analyze his own misery. What he said to himself was
that he was making a mess of things. Life, which had seemed to be
a simple thing, compounded of work and play, had become involved,
difficult and wretched.
Some times he watched Clayton almost with envy. He seemed so sure
of himself; he was so poised, so calm, so strong.
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