"May I see it out?" he begged, approaching, and putting the piece upon
the board. "You must have played a good deal," looking at Sue.
"We play often at home, my sister and I; and I had some good practice
in"--There she stopped.
"In the hospital," said Martha, with the sharp little way she took up
sometimes. "Why shouldn't you tell of it?"
"Has Miss Josselyn been in the hospitals?" asked Dakie Thayne, with a
certain quick change in his tone.
"For the best of two years," Martha answered.
At this moment, seeing how Dakie was breaking the ice for them, up came
Miss Craydocke and Leslie Goldthwaite.
"Miss Leslie! Miss Craydocke! This lady has been away among our
soldiers, in the hospitals, half through the war! Perhaps--did you
ever"--But with that he broke off. There was a great flush on his face,
and his eyes glowed with boy-enthusiasm lit at the thought of the war,
and of brave men, and of noble, ministering women, of whom he suddenly
found himself face to face with one.
The game of chess got swept together. "It was as good as over," Martha
Josselyn said.
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