I leaped alert. It was Hildreth, at my tent door....

"Get up, you lazy boy ... surely you haven't been sleeping all this

time?"

"No, darling."

"I ate my breakfast all alone," she remarked, in an aggrieved tone,

"where's Darrie and Mubby and Ruth?"

"God knows! I don't--and I don't care!"

"You needn't be peevish!"

"Peevish?--as long as you are with me I don't care if all the rest of

humanity are dead."

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