France -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
"G’wan up, anyway," said Glenn. "I reckon it’ll do her a heap o’ good to
lamp you, you old son of a gun!"
Burley turned, went up the short flight of stairs to her closed door.
There was candle-light shining through the transom. He knocked with a
trembling hand. There was no answer. He knocked again; heard her uncertain
step; stepped back as her door opened.
The girl, a drooping figure in her night robe, stood listlessly on the
threshold. Which of the muleteers it was who had come to her door she did
not notice. She said:
"I am very tired. Death is a dreadful thing. I can’t put it from my mind.
I am trying to pray----"
She lifted her weary eyes and found herself looking into the face of her
own lover. She turned very white, lovely eyes dilated.
"Is--is it thou, Djack?"
"C’est moi, ma ploo belle!"
She melted into his tightening arms with a faint cry. Very high overhead,
under the lustrous stars, an aëroplane droned its uncharted way across a
blood-soaked world.
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