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LICE was very happy. The days of their wedding journey became for her a period of almost unbelievable content. She had David and she was away with him where Fidelia had never been and could never come! And he was happy. He told her so and she knew it. He said to her, when they had only a room in a mountain hotel, "It's home to be with you. It's like having been away, Alice, and come home."

Not only were they happy of themselves but while they were in North Carolina, they received only good news. The crisis following the break in relations with Germany, seemed to be less tense; there appeared to by a chance for peace; and Alice had a letter from Myra which reported that Lan was safe. He had had typhus but was recuperating splendidly.

Alice longed to stay and to keep David in the security of the mountains but she would not alter his arrangement which required him to return to the office at the end of the week. So, after seven days, they again were in Chicago where Fidelia had been and where, at any moment, again she might be. They went for one night to the Sothrons'; upon the next day they found and immediately moved into a bungalow which was to rent, furnished. It had a wide, rough stone chimney, with a cozy hearth and stood in a little lot of its own, all of which delighted Alice.