efore I am able to
call upon your friends if you will allow me. I am stronger than you
realize; but you have not told me what you are doing in this
neighborhood."

Unexpectedly Sally had a remarkable sensation. It was as if suddenly her
position and the soldier's changed and as if he had begun to think of
her welfare rather than to have her devote herself to his.

"Oh, we are doing reclamation work," Sally returned; "that is, my sister
and friends are. I have not accomplished anything that is important. I
told you I was stupid."

All at once Sally's soldier broke into a peal of clear boyish laughter
which was of more benefit to him than either of them appreciated.

"No, you have done nothing except save my life. It is not kind of you
under the circumstances to announce you consider it unimportant. Some
day when I am able to rejoin my regiment perhaps I may be able to prove
your work worth while. Thanks to you, perhaps I shall again serve France
as I have never served her before! The enemy has taken from me
everything else, my mother, my sister, my little brother and my home. I
made up my mind that they should not hold me a prisoner whatever might
befall me. If I had to give up my life I meant to die in the open."

Then more excited and exhausted than either he or Sally had appreciated,
the soldier lay down again, closing his eyes.

It was a part of Sally's recent training which made her continue sitting
quietly beside him for the next few moments without speaking or moving.

In the interval she studied the soldier's face.

For the first time he was appearing to her as a man. Up until now he had
simply been a human being who must be cared for, allowed to suffer as
little as possible and at last be restored to health.

In considering him at present Sally did not particularly admire his
appearance. She thought his nose was rather too large and his lips too
thin and in spite of Jean's devotion, his services as a barber left a
good deal to be desired.

"Your arm is nearly well, still I think I should like to bandage it once
more before I go," Sally suggested. "You do not realize it, of course,
but I have learned a great deal about nursing since I began to look
after you. I don't like sick people, else I suppose I could become a Red
Cross nurse after more training if I wished. But I don't think I should
like the work."

As Sally talked she was accomplishing her task, certainly with a good
deal more skill than she