But they're not Americans up there in the Bend." "Father, we met one American," said Lenore, dreamily.
"By George! we did!...

An' that reminds me.

There was a government official from Washington, come out to Spokane to investigate conditions.
I forget his name.

He asked to meet me an' he was curious about the Bend--its loyalty to the U.S.I told him all I knew an' what I thought.
An' then he said he was goin' to motor through that wheat-belt an' talk to what Americans he could find, an' impress upon them that they could do as much as soldiers to win the war.

Wheat--bread--that's our great gun in this war, Lenore!...