His letter is pretty blue.

All he says about why he's there is that he's knocked out.

But he wrote a heap about his girl.

It seems he was in love with a girl in his home town--a pretty, big-eyed lass whose picture I've seen--and while he was overseas she married one of the chaps who got out of fighting.
Evidently Rust is deeply hurt.

He wrote: "I'd not care so...