The _New Dawn_ stopped, and in consequence the war went on.

For a time, at least, America must continue in that spiritual darkness which the _New Dawn_ had sought to illumine.
Later it became known in Newbern that the staff of the _New Dawn_ would now deliver its message by word of mouth.

Specifically, Merle Whipple was said to be addressing throngs of despairing toilers not only in New York, but in places as remote as Chicago.

Sharon Whipple now called him a crimson rambler.
* * * * * Meanwhile, news of the other Cowan twin trickled into Newbern through letters from Winona Penniman, a nurse with the forces overseas.

During her months of training in New York the epistolary style of Winona had maintained its old leisurely elegance, but early in the year of 1918 it suffered severely under the strain of active service and became blunt to the point of crudeness.