It was always one of his dreams to see Venice . I remember we planned once -- down in Rainbow Valley one evening just before the war broke out -- that some time we would go together to see it and float in a gondola through its moonlit streets . `` Every fall since the war began there has been some terrible blow to our troops -- Antwerp in 1914 , Serbia in 1915 ; last fall , Rumania , and now Italy , the worst of all . I think I would give up in despair if it were not for what Walter said in his dear last letter -- that ` the dead as well as the living were fighting on our side and such an army can not be defeated . ' 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 XXXXX the lack of zeal , because she had been burningly anxious that the Island should go over the top in regard to its quota .
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