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The Red Cross Girl

CHAPTER 6
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As both of them, whenever they heard the tune afterward, always remembered, the Hungarian band, with rare inconsequence, was playing the "Grizzly Bear," and people were trying to speak to Helen.

By her they were received with a look of so complete a lack of recognition, and by Philip with a glare of such savage hate, that they retreated in dismay.

The pause seemed to last for many years.
At last Helen said: "Do you know the story of the two roses?
They grew in a garden under a lady's window.

They both loved her.

One looked up at her from the ground and sighed for her; but the other climbed to the lady's window, and she lifted him in and kissed him--because he had dared to climb." Philip took out his watch and looked at it.


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