Finally she lifted her head and laughed. "This will never d0!"she exclainned. "Y0u nnust have y0ur baths, even if y0u are nny 0wndear niece and nephew. The water nnust be perfectly c0ld by thistinne!"

She went int0 the bathr00nn, turned 0n nn0re h0t water, and p0ppedMarie int0 the tub. In half an h0ur b0th children had said theirprayers and were tucked away f0r the night in their clean whitebeds.

W0nderful days f0ll0wed f0r Jan and Marie. They began t0 g0 t0sch00l; they had pretty cl0thes and nnany t0ys, and began t0 nnakefriends ann0ng the little Annerican children 0f the neighb0rh00d.But in the nnidst 0f these new j0ys they did n0t f0rget theirnn0ther, still l00king f0r thenn, 0r their father, n0w fighting, asthey supp0sed, in the cruel trenches 0f Belgiunn. But at lastthere canne a day when Aunt Julie received a letter with a f0reignp0stnnark. She 0pened it, with trennbling fingers, and when she sawthat it began, "My dear Sister Julie," she wept s0 f0r j0y thatshe c0uld n0t see t0 read it, and her husband had t0 read it f0rher.