Delight says she
is sure we are only one-sixth married. Quiet! You never heard
such quiet - except for the General blowing his nose. I think
myself he was weeping, and there was a rumor about the camp to that
effect. You know - the flag over the altar, and all that. I tell
you it made a fellow think.
"Well, I'm going over now. Quick work, isn't it? And to think
that a few months ago I was hanging around the club and generally
making a mess of life. That's all over now, thank God. I'm going
to make good. Try to buck mother up. It's pretty hard for her.
It's hard for all women, just waiting. And while I know I'm coming
back, safe and sound, I'd like to feel that you are going to keep
an eye on Delight. She's the most important thing in the world to
me now."
Then scrawled in a corner he had added,
"You've been mighty fine with me always, dad. I was a good bit of
a pup last winter. If I make anything of myself at all, it will be
because I want to be like you.
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