19/20 Every man is needed there that can be got." "Laughter is gone out of the world," said Faith Meredith, who had come over to report on her letters. "I remember telling old Mrs.Taylor long ago that the world was a world of laughter. But it isn't so any longer." "It's a shriek of anguish," said Gertrude Oliver. "A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes--only sometimes," she added under her breath. She had found it very hard to laugh during the three weeks she had just lived through--she, Anne Blythe, to whom laughter had always come so easily and freshly. |