39/50 Many have offered, Euan." "What!" "I ask your pardon. Two years of camps blunts any woman's speech." "Lois," said I uneasily, "why do you wish to go to Catharines-town, when an armed force is going ?" She sat considering, then, in a low, firm voice: "To tell you why, is why I asked you here.... And first I must show you what my packet held.... Shall I show you, Euan ?" "Surely, little comrade." She drew the packet from her bosom, unlaced the thong, unrolled the deer-hide covering. |