Bowen Marjorie

The Quest of Glory


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and wasted and sad.

      Instinctively he turned, as he had done in his childish troubles, to the corner where St. George had stood. The loss struck him afresh as he, for a second time, beheld an empty bracket, and was symbolic also, for he had travelled far from the help of Christianity since he used to pray to St. George; yet the vacant place smote him. He turned at the opening of the door; a woman came towards him speechlessly, her lips moving and her eyes full of a kind of trembling light.

      He sprang to meet her and clasped her strongly; she thrust into his arms what seemed a lump of wood.

      “Safe, dear, safe. Did you think I had destroyed it?” she managed to say.

      He kissed her cheek and then her hands. She began crying with pleasure. “St. George, Luc,” she murmured. “I have kept him very carefully.”

      The young soldier looked at the idol of his childhood; his emotions reached the unbearable agony caused by dim recollections the hand of tenderness beckons from the past. He laid St. George on the bed.

      “Oh, my mother!” he cried, in a sinking voice. He fell on his knees, hid his face, and wept.

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