Reverently they took the book from the brown hand, and the sergeant read the words aloud:
"Lost, horse dead. Am trying to push on. Have done my best."
"That he did. There was good stuff in him, lads, and perhaps he was wanted up aloft!"
A solemn hush held the party. "'I did my best,'" said a trooper softly at length. "Ah, well, it'll be a good job for all of us, if when our time comes we can say that with as much truth as he!"
Mary's Stepping Aside
BY
Edith C. Kenyon
Mary sacrificed herself to help another. The renunciation in time brought reward.
"How very foolish of you! So unbusinesslike!" cried Mrs. Croft angrily.