Unless your cousin Rudolph
- " His head dropped back on her arm. "I feel sort of all in."
His voice trailed off.
"Joey!"
"Lemme alone," he muttered. "I'm the first casualty in the
American army! I - " He made a desperate effort to speak in a
man's voice, but the higher boyish notes of sixteen conquered.
"They certainly gave us hell to-night. But we're going to build
again; me and - Clayton Spen - "
All at once he was very still. Anna spoke to him and, that failing,
gave him a frantic little shake. But Joey had gone to another
partnership beyond the stars.
CHAPTER XLIV
The immediate outstanding result of the holocaust at the munitions
works was the end of Natalie's dominion aver Graham. She never
quite forgave him the violence with which he threw off her shackles.
"If I'd been half a man I'd have been over there long ago," he
said, standing before her, tall and young and flushed. "I'd have
learned my job by now, and I'd be worth something, now I'm needed.
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