They blended now with the breeze that blew among the leaves of the apple trees.

He had never felt more like peace, and the pleasant open country was soothing to the eye.

What a contrast to that dark and sodden Wilderness where men fought blindly in the dusk.
He shuddered as he remembered the forests set on fire by the shells, and burning over the fallen.
A light step aroused him and a large man sat down on the bench beside him.

Dick often wondered at the swift and almost noiseless tread of Shepard, with whom he was becoming well acquainted.

He was tall, built powerfully and must have weighed two hundred pounds, yet he moved with the ease and grace of a boy of sixteen.