Page:War; or, What happens when one loves one's enemy, John Luther Long, 1913.djvu/30

WAR running the other! We gave her Dave's room because Dave had no use for it. He was at college in Virginia, where the red Bible had sent him.

Well, Evelyn gave us a good many soprizes, at least one a day—while they lasted. But, the first and, maybe, the biggest was her affection for our Henry—being only her stepdaddy. But, she'd never been acquainted with her real father, because he died before she was born, and she was always crazy, from a baby up, for a daddy "like other little girls." So, when Henry came along and said he'd be her daddy—well, though she was a pretty big girl by that time she was just as crazy for one—maybe more so—and you can believe that Henry didn't disappoint her! I expect they was a good bit like her and Dave. Just the best friends. Anyhow, we soon found out she's crazy about Henry, as a father, and mighty mad at the Unions for killing him. She used to get so worked up when she'd talk about it, that we kept on reminding her that he wasn't 14