"Why not, dear?" Miss Celia asked with considerable interest.
"Because ministers say they want to be like Jesus, but He wouldn't have said about the boys, 'They all look alike,' just as if He didn't care how they looked and didn't want to know them! I'm sure He knew all the boys wherever He went."
"Thank you, dear, for making something clear to me," Miss Celia said, softly.
And Gay wondered in vain what Miss Celia meant.
CHAPTER XVI
A SQUAD OF ONE
"It is necessary that we understand one another before we begin," said the General. "Do you know what the position of the soldier is?"
"I don't know much about it," May answered, "but it must be an awfully hard one—having to carry a gun, and go into battle and kill other soldiers and stay out doors all night in the dark, and not see his family and—oh, it must be a very hard position!"
"I didn't mean precisely that," the General said, "I meant this." And he assumed the soldier's position, arms at a carry. "Now do you understand?"