This was given to Ridge for distribution among his friends.

Spence Cuthbert also shyly handed him a box of choice candies, which she had carried all this time; but Dulce, seeing her brother thus well provided, gave her box to Rollo Van Kyp--a proceeding that filled the young millionaire with delight, and caused him to be furiously envied by every other man in the car.
Finally the heavy train began slowly to pull out, its occupants raised a mighty cheer, the trumpeters sounded their liveliest quickstep, and those left behind, waving their handkerchiefs and shouting words of farewell, felt their eyes fill with sudden tears.

Until this moment the war had been merely a subject for careless discussion, a thing remote from them and only affecting far-away people.

Now it was real and terrible.

Their nearest and dearest was concerned in it.