1/16 This was not so much evidenced by the presence of a hard-bitten corporal and his little army of four men; nor so much more by the advent of Annie Squires; neither was it proved by the new buildings that had risen so quickly; nor by the appearance of new equipment. It was not so much in the material as in the intangible things of life that greatest change had come. Even Mary Gage, for some reason, had ceased to weep. But the main miracle was in the instance of Sim Gage himself. |