"Can't you see that, and be quiet."

"I want to go as much as you do," said Jimmie stubbornly.

"I don't want to go at all," declared Neil, and his younger brother
stared. "And neither would you if you would stop and think what a
fearful thing this war is. I'm going because it is my duty, and so is
Sandy. It's your duty to stay at home and finish the education John
and Allister are giving you, and look after Mother.

"I don't want to go back to school," grumbled Jimmie, "Not after I've
passed next summer, anyway."

"John doesn't want to stay here on the farm. He'd like to go to the
Front, but he stays. You are young and you will be needed later. So
be a man and do your duty. All the soldiers aren't going info the
trenches."

But his advice had little effect on Jimmie, the war fever was in his
veins. He gave his promise, however, to wait until he was eighteen,
and Neil had to be content. But he was restless and fretful under the
restriction, he felt quite sure that the war would all be over long
before that date and his great opportunity would be gone.

Meanwhile Orchard Glen was slowly waking up at the call for men. Tommy
Holmes rushed into khaki after the first glorious sight of the Lindsay
boys in the village street, and Tremendous K.'s eldest son followed.
And Christina had the heavy task of writing to Ellen to tell her that
Bruce had given up his prospects of being a Doctor, and was enlisted
with the University corps. Mr. Sinclair's only son, who was a minister
in a neighbouring town, came home to say farewell, dressed in his
chaplain's uniform, and the little village lived in a whirl of
excitement.

The Red Cross Society was busy night and day making socks for the boys
who had left, with the result that they each one got far more than any
young man with only two feet could possibly wear.

All this stir, and the sight of so much khaki coming and going in the
village had a bad effect upon Dr. McGarry. Every day he took the war
more grievously to heart. He and Mr. Holmes took different sides as to
the conduct of the spring campaign, and after Tommy enlisted it was not
safe for the Doctor to go into the store, so high did feeling run.

And at home the Doctor was even worse, until poor Mrs. Sutherland's
life was scarcely worth living. Wallace unwittingly brought down a
torrent of wrath upon his head one day when the Spring Drive was on and
prospects were looking black. It was an inopportune mome