This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIII OUR GERMANS "The Stranger within my gates, He may be evil or good, But I cannot tell what powers control--What reasons sway his mood; Nor when the Gods of his far-off land May re-possess his blood."--Kipling. GONE away! The news was given to me by Elizabeth, who had it from her fiance, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIII OUR GERMANS "The Stranger within my gates, He may be evil or good, But I cannot tell what powers control--What reasons sway his mood; Nor when the Gods of his far-off land May re-possess his blood."--Kipling. GONE away! The news was given to me by Elizabeth, who had it from her fiance, Colonel Fielding. His friend and host, Captain Holiday, had gone up to London to attend a medical board; also he had business which might keep him away for some time. He'd be away for weeks! A great blankness fell upon me, and when it lifted I felt that I had been pushed rudely out of my fool's paradise. Care for me? Of course, he couldn't care for me. Men don't go away without a single word of goodbye from girls of whom they care at all. I had an example of that in Harry. He and Captain Holiday cared for me about equally! That is, not two straws! I had been a lunatic to delude myself into the belief that I was the girl of whom Dick Holiday had held forth to me--" Just the girl I want!" Not Joan Matthews! No, no, Muriel Elvey was the girl he'd meant all that time. Yes! I was now once more miserably certain of that, in spite of all that Colonel Fielding had said. "Men," as Elizabeth declares, "are such poor judges of what girl another man might want to marry!" Meanwhile Mrs. Elvey and her daughter were still ensconced at the Lodge, where they were to stay, it seemed, until their host returned. I heard all the news about them, for "you know what gossips men are," says Elizabeth, "men who pretend that we have the monopoly of this fault!" It was Colonel Fielding who hinted to Elizabeth--who told me--that he fancied those ladies were glad of a comfortable little country place whereat to stay on the cheap now that they had let their London...
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