NEW GROUNDS FOR EXEMPTION
The two young girls watched the “nutty young Cuthbert” pass along the street.
“Did he appeal for exemption?” said May.
“Yes,” said Ray, “you might have known he would.”
“On what grounds?”
“I don’t know,” replied Ray, “unless it was upon the ground that if he went to the war his wife’s father would have no son-in-law to support.”