He is coming home as soon as he is out of the hospital -- the first of our boys to return . When will the others come ? `` And there is one who will never come . At least we will not see him if he does . But , oh , I think he will be there -- when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them -- the army of the fallen . We will not see them -- but they will be there ! '' 1st September 1918 `` Mother and I went into Charlottetown yesterday to see the moving picture , `` Hearts of the World . '' I made an awful goose of myself -- father will never stop teasing me about it for the rest of my life . But it all seemed so horribly real -- and I was so intensely interested that I forgot everything but the scenes I saw enacted before my eyes . And then , quite near the last came a terribly exciting one . The heroine was struggling with a horrible German soldier who was trying to drag her away . I knew she had a knife -- I had seen her hide it , to have it in readiness -- and I could n't understand why she did n't produce it and finish the brute . I thought she must have forgotten it , and just at the tensest moment of the scene I lost my head altogether . I just stood right up on my feet in that crowded house and shrieked at the top of my voice -- ` The knife is in your stocking -- the knife is in your stocking ! ' `` I created a sensation ! `` The funny part was , that just as I said it , the girl did snatch out the knife and stab the soldier with it ! `` Everybody in the house laughed . I came to my senses and fell back in my seat , overcome with mortification . Mother was shaking with laughter . I could have shaken her .
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