CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I The Feast of Nations[1]
II Peace in Friendship Village[20]
III The Story of Jeffro[45]
IV When Nick Nordman Came Back Home[75]
V Being Good to Letty[98]
VI Something Plus[104]
VII The Art and Loan Dress Exhibit[130]
VIII Rose Pink[154]
IX Peace[185]
X Dream[205]
XI The Brother-Man[232]
XII The Cable[256]
XIII When the Hero Came Home[273]
XIV Folks[293]

PEACE IN FRIENDSHIP
VILLAGE

THE FEAST OF NATIONS[1]

Three-four of us older ones were down winding up Red Cross, and eight-ten of our daughters were helping; not my daughter—I ain't connect'—but Friendship Village daughters in general. Or I don't know but it was us older ones that were helping them. Anyway, Red Cross was being wound up from being active, and the rooms were going to be rented to a sewing-machine man. And that night we were to have our final entertainment in the Friendship Village Opera House, and we were all going to be in it.

There was a sound from the stairs like something walking with six feet, and little Achilles Poulaki came in. He always stumbled even when there was nothing in sight but the floor—he was that age. He was the Sykeses' grocery delivery boy, that Mis' Sykes thinks is her social secretary as well, and he'd been errand boy for us all day.