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 the manager finally had to remind her that her cue would soon be called.

So it was into the same old touch-and-go world that Pierre had returned. If the soldiers could fight by day and by night upon the reeking soil of France, Madame could also fight for her country upon the stage. So it was a tired, hard-worked woman who again took Pierre to her heart and talked to him in the small hours of the morning after the theatre lights had gone out and the last curtain had fallen.

But just a week to a day after Pierre set foot in France the colors again called him and Madame could not refuse her country.

General Gerundo, an old friend, was calling on her at the theatre. There was an hour before the curtain went up, and