Children of no Man's Land by G.B. Stern — Read

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"I've come to say good-bye," David Redbury explained jubilantly to La llorraine; "the Jewish regiment sails to-morrow, and I've dragged this fellow out to see me through my farewell visits," indicating Richard, who leant in the doorway of the drawing-room with "buck-up-and-get-it-over" expressed in every reluctant line of his figure.