Good-by, dear boy, and God be with you.

THAYER DARCY.
***** EMBARKING AT NIGHT Amory moved forward on the deck until he found a stool under an electric light.

He searched in his pocket for note-book and pencil and then began to write, slowly, laboriously: "We leave to-night...
Silent, we filled the still, deserted street, A column of dim gray, And ghosts rose startled at the muffled beat Along the moonless way; The shadowy shipyards echoed to the feet That turned from night and day.
And so we linger on the windless decks, See on the spectre shore Shades of a thousand days, poor gray-ribbed wrecks...
Oh, shall we then deplore Those futile years! See how the sea is white! The clouds have broken and the heavens burn To hollow highways, paved with gravelled light The churning of the waves about the stern Rises to one voluminous nocturne, ...

We leave to-night." A letter from Amory, headed "Brest, March 11th, 1919," to Lieutenant T.
P.D'Invilliers, Camp Gordon, Ga.
DEAR BAUDELAIRE:-- We meet in Manhattan on the 30th of this very mo.; we then proceed to take a very sporty apartment, you and I and Alec, who is at me elbow as I write.

I don't know what I'm going to do but I have a vague dream of going into politics.