Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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Love ' s Sacrifice. Continued, ghly educated and had s ent much his life in Oermany Ho one had e least suspicion, however, that was not fighting heart and soul r ?rance. As the moments passed, his fevey emed to increase. He began to Ik of home. He seemed to think s mother was beside him and, ex- ding his band toward Marguerite, clasped it in both of hers, he q her this story .- Hot her, I e tried to do what you told rae. Dined the rench army and was 8 aide-de-oamp to General Augner, gave me the plan of Battle ycu ted, mother, to carry to a en- 1 in Antwerp. To avoid sus- ion, I fell in with the ; ;i rench ops going in that direction. ' i came the battle and I am here the hospital in danger of losing left arm, and oh, how faint I 11 At thie point, he caught breath and with s struggle tinned: Mother, here are the ns. They are--, oh dear. ' Can ' t find them? They are hrre--, e in my kit just under the — . ' ' e his Tins closed tightly and dozer again . Marguerite, almost sub-. sciously grabbed his kit from floor near his bed and opened or nearly an hour she trehed, and then she found the i.:-. for the next month ' s oaa- m in the most minute details, ilfully concealed in a oake of )« ' or a moment, the .hole world amed wl irling around her. he feohed the kit wildly. Then wh:- still, .hen Bhe open eyes, th« sun whs shining ?htly and she was in bed with tree so ted beside her. She ?ted ..here were the papers? f% -s Carton? ..hat day v In s-ite of all remonstfanoss, mnle of days later, she dressed went to Carton ' bed side. Re was such tetter and, as she entered, he was carefully going over his kit. In a moment she realized that something must be done. Ilia fever of a few nights beforehand left him so suddenly that by another week he could surely leave the hospital liar guer it© also realised that she was the only one who knew about his secret Although she loved Carton, she loved her country more. Because of her nervous break- down, she was under strict orders not to work for at least a week She spent much of this time with Carton At the very thought she must betray him, she writhed in pain . he could not force her- self to forget that he was a spy and a traitor to France. Should she, for the ske of her lover, sacrifice the hueb md lovers of all the soman of ' ranee and Belgium Honor and right at last pre- vailed, although the test was hard. The night for her ts decide came at last ..he ne: t dag he would leave the hospital ' he could not see him shot, :he world need not know. Carton was more wonderful than ever that night. Marguerite talked to him softly for a long time. Eaoto smile, each word, made the torture harderto bear Ihe moon rose and shed its silvery light through the small windo.. on the handsome, motionless figure of Carton de Mares uerite had mixed a vial ofopium with his can of hot chocolate .-it a breaking heart she Hatched his life go out, she clasped his hand to her heart, and then stooped, she kissed him rently -and went out in the night, he had sacrificed her all for Prance, and the world nedd never know. . . B. »1S .