e Supreme Court, into a building with a number of other
men. Not only that but without so much as a screen, or a closet in
which to hang up his clothing.

"What do you mean, hang up my clothes?" he said when we protested.
"They're hung up all right--on me."

"It seems rather terrible," Aggie objected gently. "No privacy or
anything."

"Privacy! I haven't got anything to hide."

We found some little comfort, however, in the fact that beneath the
pitiful cot that he called his bed he had a small tin trunk. Even that
was destroyed, however, by the entrance of a thin young man called
Smithers, who reached under the cot and dragging out the trunk proceeded
to take out one of the pairs of socks that Aggie had knitted.

Charlie Sands paid no attention, but Tish fixed this person with a cold
eye.

"Haven't you made a mistake?" she inquired. The young man was changing
his socks, with his back to us, and he looked back over his shoulder.

"Sorry!" he said. "Didn't like to ask you to go out. Haven't any place
else to go, you know."

"Aren't you putting on my nephew's socks?"

"Extraordinary!" he said. "Did you notice that?"

"I'll trouble you to take them off, young man."

"Well," he said reflectively, "I'll tell you what we'll do: I'll take
off these socks if he'll return what he's got on that belongs to me. I
don't remember exactly, but I'm darn sure of his underwear and his
breeches. You see, while you good people at home are talking democracy
we're practicing it, and Sands' idea is the best yet. He swaps an entire
outfit for a pair of socks. Even the Democratic Party can't improve on
that."

Tish was very thoughtful during the remainder of the afternoon, but she
brightened somewhat when, later on, we sat on the steps of a building
watching Charlie Sands and a number of others going through what Major
Williams called setting-up exercises. She was greatly interested and
made notes in her memorandum book. I have a copy of the book before me
now. The letter T, S, A and B stand respectively for Toes, Stomach, Arms
and Back. I shall not quote all Tish's notes, but this one, for
instance, is illustrative of her thorough methods:

"Lying on B. in mud, H. flat on ground, L. rigidly extended: Rise L. in
air six times. Retaining prone position rise to sitting position without
aid of A., but using S. muscles. Repeat six times. [Note: Director uses
language unfitting a soldier and a gentleman. Report to the Secretary of
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