She referred to the past, and asked me to meet her." "Were you--very intimate?
Great friends ?" "We were engaged to be married," he acknowledged frankly, his eyes upon her face.

"That was at the breaking out of the war, and I was in my senior college year.

We met at school, and I was supposed to be the heir to a large property.

She is a beautiful woman now, and she was a beautiful girl then.

I thought her as good and true as she was charming.
Since then I have learned her selfishness and deceit, that it was my money which attracted her, and that she really loved another man, a classmate." She glanced up at him as he paused, but he resumed the story without being interrupted.
"The war came, and I enlisted at once, and received a commission.