I shall lie awake half the night wondering . He is a captain now . I am glad and proud -- and yet Captain Ford sounds so horribly far away and high up . Ken and Captain Ford seem like two different persons . I may be practically engaged to Ken -- mother 's opinion on that point is my stay and bulwark -- but I ca n't be to Captain Ford ! `` And Jem is a lieutenant now -- won his promotion on the field . He sent me a snap-shot , taken in his new uniform . He looked thin and old -- old -- my boy-brother Jem . I ca n't forget mother 's face when I showed it to her . ` That -- my little Jem -- the baby of the old House of Dreams ? ' was all she said . `` There was a letter from Faith , too . She is doing V.A.D. work in England and writes hopefully and brightly . I think she is almost happy -- she saw Jem on his last leave and she is so near him she could go to him , if he were wounded . That means so much to her . Oh , if I were only with her ! But my work is here at home . I know Walter would n't have wanted me to leave mother and in everything I try to ` keep faith ' with him , even to the little details of daily life . Walter died for Canada -- I must live for her . That is what he asked me to do . ''
28th January 1918 '' ' I shall anchor my storm-tossed soul to the British fleet and make a batch of bran biscuits , ' said Susan today XXXXX Cousin Sophia , who had come in with some weird tale of a new and all-conquering submarine , just launched by Germany .
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