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 long thick braid, and her eyes were shining. She looked just like a young girl.

“‘There is word from Jem?’ she said.

“How did she know? I hadn’t said a word at the ‘phone except ‘Yes—yes—yes.’ She says she doesn’t know how she knew, but she did know. She was awake and she heard the ring and she knew that there was word from Jem.

“‘He's alive—he’s well— he’s in Holland,’ I said,

“ Mother came out into the hall and said,

“‘I must get your father on the ’phone and tell him. He is in the Upper Glen.’

“She was very calm and quiet—not a bit like I would have expected her to be. But then I wasn’t either. I went and woke up Gertrude and Susan and told them. Susan said ‘Thank God,’ firstly, and secondly she said ‘Did I not tell you Dog Monday knew?’ and thirdly, ‘I'll go down and make a cup of tea,’—and she stalked down in her nightdress to make it. She did make it—and made mother and Gertrude drink it—but I went back to my room and shut my door and locked it, and knelt by my window and cried—just as Gertrude did when her great news came.

“I think I know at last exactly what I shall feel like on the resurrection morning.”

October 4th, 1918

“Today Jem’s letter came. It has been in the house only six hours and it is almost read to pieces. The post-mistress told everybody in the Glen it had come, and everybody came up to hear the news.

“Jem was badly wounded in the thigh—and he was picked up and taken. to prison, so delirious with