ntly, and
through them shone ever her smile.

A few short days Larry spent at his home moving about among those that
were dearer to him than his own life, wondering the while at their
courage and patience and power to sacrifice. In his father he seemed to
discover a new man, so concentrated was he in his devotion to business,
and so wise, his only regret being that he could not don the king's
uniform. With Kathleen he spent many hours. Not once throughout all
these days did she falter in her steady, calm endurance, and in her
patient devotion to duty. Without tears, without a word of repining
against her cruel fate, with hardly a suggestion, indeed, of her
irreparable loss, she talked to him of her husband and of his glorious
death.

After two months an unexpected order called the battalion on twenty-four
hours' notice for immediate service over seas, and amid the cheers of
hundreds of their friends and fellow citizens, although women being
in the majority, the cheering was not of the best, they steamed out of
Melville Station. There were tears and faces white with heartache, but
these only after the last cheer had been flung upon the empty siding out
of which the cars of the troop-train had passed. The tears and the white
faces are for that immortal and glorious Army of the Base, whose finer
courage and more heroic endurance make victory possible to the army of
the Fighting First Line.

At Winnipeg the train was halted for a day and a night, where the
battalion ENJOYED the hospitality of the city which never tires of
welcoming and speeding on the various contingents of citizen soldiers
of the West en route for the Front. There was a dinner and entertainment
for the men. For Larry, because he was Acting Adjutant, there was no
respite from duty through all the afternoon until the men had been
safely disposed in the care of those who were to act as their hosts at
dinner. Then the Colonel took him off to Jane and her father, who were
waiting with their car to take them home.

"My! but you do look fine in your uniform," said Jane, "and so strong,
and so big; you have actually grown taller, I believe." Her eyes were
fairly standing out with pride and joy.

"Not much difference north and south," said Larry, "but east and west,
considerable. And you, Jane, you are looking better than ever. Whatever
has happened to you?"

"Hard work," said Jane.

"I hear you are in the Big Business up to your neck," said Larry. "There