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Well, for one thing, the
continuance of this war weighs upon my spirit. Men are getting so
scarce that I believe they will take me in some capacity. Now that
mother is not here, I think I ought to go."
"Oh, Hobart, we would miss you so!" she faltered.
He looked up with a smile. "Yes, Helen, I think you would--not
many others, though. You have become so brave and strong that you
do not need me any more."
"I am not so brave and strong as I seem. If I were, how did I
become so? With the tact and delicacy of a woman, yet with the
strength of a man, you broke the crushing force of the first blow,
and have helped me ever since."
"You see everything through a very friendly medium. At any rate I
could not have been content a moment if I had not done all in my
power. You do not need me any longer; you have become a source of
strength to others. I cannot help seeing crowded hospital wards;
and the thought pursues me that in one of them I might do
something to restore a soldier to his place in the field or save
him for those at home.


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