thusiastic about seeing me again?" Lieutenant Fleury
began, smiling at Sally.

"I am very glad to find you so well," Sally announced as she shook
hands. It was difficult to confuse Sally. She had a great deal of poise
of her own kind and a little superior air of detachment which was oddly
amusing.

"Yes, I am very well, thanks to you. Still I insist upon knowing why you
are not pleased to see me? I remember you snubbed me for suggesting that
we might develop a sisterly and brotherly affection for each other, but
now I have discovered Yvonne, won't you be friends? It is hard upon me
if you refuse to consent because my burden of gratitude to you must then
be all the heavier. I am going back to join my regiment in a few days.
Today I also came to warn Miss Lord and Captain Burton that there will
be danger later this spring if you insist upon remaining here at your
farm house. I cannot speak plainly, but I have reason to believe the
German drive will not be long delayed. The Allied line will hold; they
shall never break through, yet it might be wiser if you were out of the
range of any possible danger."

Without discussion of the question and disregarding the delightful
possibility of tea, Sally and Lieutenant Fleury were walking side by
side away from the farm house yard and toward the old chateau.

"You are very kind, Lieutenant Fleury," Sally answered, speaking more
gravely and with less childishness than one might have imagined, "but I
do not believe we will consent to leave our farm house and to give up
our work unless the war comes almost to our very door. Even then you
know food might be useful to the soldiers and I am an extremely good
cook."

Sally's seriousness had disappeared and she was more her accustomed
self.

"Yet you have not answered my question or promised to be my friend,"
Lieutenant Fleury argued, looking at his companion with an amused frown.
Undoubtedly it was difficult to understand any human being who could be
such a complete child at one moment and so wise the next; but perhaps
Sally embodied the Biblical idea that true wisdom is only found among
childish spirits.

As a matter of fact, Sally answered simply, "Why, of course I am your
friend, Lieutenant Fleury. Now when I am beginning to understand more of
what soldiers must endure, I feel as if I were a friend to every man in
our allied armies, although they probably are not aware of the honor,"
and again Sally dimpled in irresistible fash