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To Elizabeth the first days of Dick's absence were unbelievably dreary

She seemed to live only from one visit of the postman to the next She

felt sometimes that only part of her was at hoht in her white bed, donned its black frocks and took thees to the cemetery above the

tohere hernarrow mound,

so fearfully rerieved sorely, and spent itself in s

actions and little caressing touches on bowed heads and grief-stooped

shoulders It put away Ji, and kept immaculate the roo hours It sent her on

her knees at night to pray for Ji-man heaven

which would please him But the other part of her was not there at all

It was off with Dick in some mysterious place of

And because of this division in herself, because she felt that her

loyalty to her people had wavered, because she knew that already she had

forsaken her father and her h the