Show this is Ale memorial morial lay clay said young voting harold hai old wade all the rhe schools ere are going in to the cemetery I 1 am to help scatter flowers are aou ou and grand ira going xo no I 1 dont approve e of this new holiday ansu answered ered old judge wade there were enough without it and ni we e hit hac e no soldier burled buried there 1 I wish my fathers grave were there exclaimed the boy bov T iset but I 1 A will ill hy some OTI on a gr gawe ane that 1 I dont 1011 t ano inov one of ot file unmarked graeb and it will he be tor for him I 1 sit my mv mother had lived and I 1 w ish she were here sometimes I 1 think we r ought to tell him said mrs wade when her grandson grandsion had hurried heay hearted awa not till he is a grown man said tile lie resolute judge lie ile would blame k x J HE WENT STRAIGHT TO HIS grandfather is too bitter bitterly ly now DONN I 1 w said bf bedorr wallace enlisted tila eliat t if she got my sun soil to go to the army she NN regret it I 1 think she lias has this rial day clay nonsense will be forgotten long before harold grows grains up it M was MW W a new neu ceremony ce remon but tile the spirit of I 1 it tap appealed pealed to the people and they paid id all honor to the armies that flint lie lic front face to the stars stam harold wade felt the significance as lie laid roses on the graves of men who nho hail bad made earths r final sacrifice and han lien other acce ceremonials remo nials bere iere ere ot occupying the rest reat he ile slipped from his and laid a rose on the hie grale of a foldier i who had fought for freedom all and had bad neglected to accumulate even so mull much as would hae is e purchased a monument As ALs the boy i turned back to the crowd a a woman nornan approached him swiftly y 1 woman of fair and happy yet wistful lave fix e ller gentle hands had carps cares caressing sing bing in them and the fragrance of her breath was like a 1 I memory memon fron from infancy she gave hima paper read it when hen you got get home she said when you vou hove have found the other half you w ill know then she stooped and kissed him and walked swiftly away ay while A hile lie stood v the other liala JIN I 1 will ill know what who bip was ibe he he looked at the paper tamn it a torn aborn bit of a t letter nimeh v wrinkled it AN wai as dark stained on the unpachi riler egv and there wasa was a miniature flag mo lilie 1 monogram on oil the upper coridi and this is s what lie he found in tile the aca a cation tiou 1 pi w ait I 1 ly y harold had 1 a I great deal of if I 1 inic ot on I 1 his hands one day it ruined rained auti hf he siept up to the attic with fit a book of uli venture and w henle hen he 1 wih tin li it of following loll lg his hii bero through perils in III AN wa tiered into a nook under the roof where the train rain was be bealing ben ling tiling and ill d dragged out a crumpled ol 01 I 1 knip gael which lie he had never seen jie ile looked it ith arid and pulled pulled open efte stubborn leather in it were some seme articles of if dress a and lid toilet already quaint thou though this son ofa soldier halt way through 11 his teens there was a testament anil and a needle avith nome thread and there was a torn halt half sheet of note paper OIL oa fairly and dark stained along its iti unclean edge it bore these words v sir e its tile the other half he cried and the son of a soldier leaped to his feet now I 1 shell shall know knon lie cut straight to lo his grandfather and showed him the two matched fragments you have been irry cry good to me he said but that woman was as my mother ay my iy mother is living and not dead she was with my father VL AN hen ben he died you got that knapsack somehow but she had bad saved halt half of the letter which had bad been cut in tn two 0 by the bullet that agne ga e him his death wound and she has never asked ion for anything though she mi might lit bai hae c asked you for much now I 1 ask forcier for lier where is she and the grandfather told lie ile was 0 o less bitter atter to the woman AN ho had sent his son to the war since she had soo soothed theil that son while be suffered so that the judges home received a sweet faced woman who reaped in ill years of loving loing companion companionship ship the reward of adelf a self de nial dial that had lasted from the day she left a new nen made grave in the vilder ness and found her toddling son had been spirited away |