But when he heard about the Lusitania
he told his mother that he understood now why God didn't answer his
prayer--He was too busy attending to the souls of all the people who
went down on the Lusitania. That child's brain is a hundred years older
than his body, Mrs. Dr. dear. As for the Lusitania, it is an awful
occurrence, whatever way you look at it. But Woodrow Wilson is going to
write a note about it, so why worry? A pretty president!" and Susan
banged her pots about wrathfully. President Wilson was rapidly becoming
anathema in Susan's kitchen.
Mary Vance dropped in one evening to tell the Ingleside folks that she
had withdrawn all opposition to Miller Douglas's enlisting.
"This Lusitania business was too much for me," said Mary brusquely.
"When the Kaiser takes to drowning innocent babies it's high time
somebody told him where he gets off at. This thing must be fought to a
finish. It's been soaking into my mind slow but I'm on now. So I up and
told Miller he could go as far as I was concerned. Old Kitty Alec won't
be converted though. If every ship in the world was submarined and every
baby drowned, Kitty wouldn't turn a hair. But I flatter myself that it
was me kept Miller back all along and not the fair Kitty. I may have
deceived myself--but we shall see."
They did see. The next Sunday Miller Douglas walked into the Glen Church
beside Mary Vance in khaki.
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