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 'Not unless he's sent across. I shall give him everything if he's sent across, for perhaps that woman was right about the bayonet. I have an idea, if Felix goes across, he'll never come back.'

But he did come back, without a decoration or a stripe of any kind, in a private's uniform, as he went. He came back for his reward, three weeks after the armistice was signed, without ever having gotten beyond a training-camp in England, where he took care of horses. And Sheilah, head high, shoulders squared, began her term of service.