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"Two cripples," declared Capt. John Rayburn -- honourably discharged from active service in the United States Army on account of permanent disability from injuries received in the Philippines, -- "two cripples should be able to keep a household properly stirred up. I've been here five days now, and my soul longs for some frivolity."
He leaned back in his big wicker armchair and looked quizzically across at his niece Celia, who lay upon her couch at the other side of the room. She gave him a somewhat pale-faced smile in return. Four weeks of enforced quiet were beginning to tell on her.