Half an hour later, the messenger who had borne the note returned with it unopened. For explanation, he said:—
“Captain Harbach had his head blown off in the trenches just before daylight this morning.”
XVIII
EVELYN’S REVELATION
IT was during Arthur’s absence at Petersburg that Evelyn began talking with Dorothy about herself.
“It isn’t nice,” she said, as the two sat together in the porch one day, “for me to have reserves and secrets with you, Dorothy.”
“But why not? Every one is entitled to have reserves. Why should not you?”
“Oh, because—well, things are different with me. You are good to me—nobody was ever so good to me. I am living here, and loving you and letting you love me, and all the time you know nothing at all about me. It isn’t fair. I hate unfairness.”