XI
FINDING OUT
his world is a hard place to live in. I wish somebody would tell me what we are born for anyway, and what's the use of living.
There are so many things that hurt, and you get so mixed up trying to understand, that if you don't keep busy you'll spend your life guessing at a puzzle that hasn't any answer.
Miss Katherine has gone away. Gone to stay two months, anyhow. Maybe three.
Her Army brother, the one who is a Captain, has been sent to Texas, and his wife and children were taken ill as soon as they got there.
Of course, they sent for Miss Katherine; that is, asked her by telegraph if she wouldn't come. She went. And she'll be going to somebody all her life, for she's the kind that is turned to when things go wrong.
Miss Webb is awful worried. She says a cool head and a warm heart are always worked to death, and the person who has them is forever on call.
Miss Katherine has them.