No it can not . We will win in the end . I will not doubt it for one moment . To let myself doubt would be to ` break faith . ' `` We have all been campaigning furiously of late for the new Victory Loan . We Junior Reds canvassed diligently and landed several tough old customers who had at first flatly refused to invest . I -- even I -- tackled Whiskers-on-the-moon . I expected a bad time and a refusal . But to my amazement he was quite agreeable and promised on the spot to take a thousand dollar bond . He may be a pacifist , but he knows a good investment when it is handed out to him . Five and a half per cent is finve and a half per cent , even when a militaristic government pays it . `` Father , to tease Susan , says it was her speech at the Victory Loan Campaign meeting that converted Mr. Pryor . I do n't think that at all likely , since Mr. Pryor has been publicly very bitter against Susan ever since her quite unmistakable rejection of his lover-like advances . But Susan did make a speech -- and the best one made at the meeting , too . It was the first time she ever did such a thing and she vows it will be the last . Everybody in the Glen was at the meeting , and quite a number of speeches were made , but somehow things were a little flat and no especial enthusiasm could be worked up . Susan was quite dismayed at the lack of zeal , because she had been burningly anxious that the Island should go over the top in regard to its quota . She kept whispering viciously to Gertrude and me that there was ` no ginger ' in the speeches ; and when nobody went forward to subscribe to the loan at the close Susan ` lost her head . ' At least , that is how she describes it herself . She bounded to her feet , her face grim and set under her bonnet -- Susan is the only woman in Glen St. Mary who still wears a bonnet -- and said sarcastically and loudly , ` No doubt it is much cheaper to talk patriotism than it is to pay for it .
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