It was several weeks
before it reached Doctor McKenzie. He was very busy, for the spring
drive of the Germans had begun, and shattered men were coming to him
faster than he could handle them. But he found time at last to read
it, and when he laid it down he sat quite still from the shock of it.
And the next time he saw Drusilla he said to her, "Emily Bridges is
going to be married, and she is not going to marry me."
"I am glad of it," Drusilla told him.
"My dear girl, why?"
"Because you don't love her, and you never did."
CHAPTER XXVI
THE HOPE OF THE WORLD
The great spring drive of the Germans brought headlines to the papers
which men and women in America read with dread, and scoffed at when
they talked it over.
"They'll never get to Paris," were the words on their lips, but in
their hearts they were asking, "Will they--?"
Easter came at the end of March, and Good Friday found Jean working
very early in the morning on fawn-colored rabbits with yellow ears.
She worked in her bedroom because it was warmed by a feeble wood fire,
and Teddy came up to watch her.
"The yellow in their ears is the sun shining through," Jean told him.
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