Illustrations
[ Officers stopping in to fight their paper and pin battles. ]
[ Henri explained the method. ]
[ "That I should have hurt you so!" he said softly. ]
[ That Henri might be living, somewhere—that some day the Belgians might go home again. ]
I
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. It is furnished out with approximately the same things. Characters come, move about and make their final exits through long-familiar doors. And the back drop remains approximately the same from beginning to end. Palace or hovel, forest or sea, it is the background for the moving figures of the play.