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The Railway Children

CHAPTER V
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And he volunteered.

But he deserted at the first chance he got and--" "But that's very cowardly, isn't it"-- said Peter--"to desert?
Especially when it's war." "Do you think he owed anything to a country that had done THAT to him?
If he did, he owed more to his wife and children.

He didn't know what had become of them." "Oh," cried Bobbie, "he had THEM to think about and be miserable about TOO, then, all the time he was in prison ?" "Yes, he had them to think about and be miserable about all the time he was in prison.

For anything he knew they might have been sent to prison, too.

They did those things in Russia.


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