He did not say what for , but the other boys took care that the Glen should know the brave thing Walter had done . `` In any war but this , '' wrote Jerry Meredith , `` it would have meant a V.C. . But they ca n't make V.C. 's as common as the brave things done every day here . '' `` He should have had the V.C. , '' said Susan , and was very indignant over it . She was not quite sure who was to blame for his not getting it , but if it were General Haig she began for the first time to entertain serious doubts as to his fitness for being Commander-in-Chief . Rilla was beside herself with delight . It was her dear Walter who had done this thing -- Walter , to whom someone had sent a white feather at Redmond -- it was Walter who had dashed back from the safety of the trench to drag in a wounded comrade who had fallen on No-man 's - land . Oh , she could see his white beautiful face and wonderful eyes as he did it ! What a thing to be the sister of such a hero ! And he had n't thought it worth while writing about . His letter was full of other things -- little intimate things that they two had known and loved together in the dear old cloudless days of a century ago . `` I 've been thinking of the daffodils in the garden at Ingleside , '' he wrote . `` By the time you get this they will be out , blowing there under that lovely rosy sky . Are they really as bright and golden as ever , Rilla ? It seems to me that they must be dyed red with blood -- like our poppies here . And every whisper of spring will be falling as a violet in Rainbow Valley . `` There is a young moon tonight -- a slender , silver , lovely thing hanging over these pits of torment . Will you see it tonight over the maple grove ? `` I 'm enclosing a little scrap of verse , Rilla . I wrote it one evening in my trench dug-out by the light of a bit of candle -- or rather it came to me there -- I did n't feel as if I were writing it -- something seemed to use me as an instrument .
I 've had that feeling once or twice before , but very rarely and never so strongly XXXXX this time .
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