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The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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But at the end came the passage which poor Harvey read and re-read
when the letter came, and alternately ground his teeth over and kissed.

"I do love you, Harvey dear. And I am coming back to you. I have felt
that I had to do what I am doing, but I am coming back. That's a
promise. Unless, of course, I should take sick, or something like
that, which isn't likely."


There was a long pause in the writing here, but Harvey could not know
that.

"I shall wear your ring always; and always, Harvey, it will mean to
me that I belong to you. With dearest love.

"SARA LEE"


Then she added a postscript, of course.

"The War Office is not letting people cross to Calais just now. But
I am going to do it anyhow. It is perfectly simple. And when I get
over I shall write and tell you how.

"S.L."


It was the next day that an indignant official in the censor's office
read that postscript, and rose in his wrath and sent a third
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