Change In Desire

BELGRAVE SQUARE, November 28th "DEAR FRANK, --Surely you are not going to spend a third Christmas at Heidelberg! We want you with us in good old England. My marriage with Daphne is fixed for Christmas Day, and I shall not regard the ceremony as valid unless you are my best man. So come--_come_--COME! No time to say more. You can guess how busy I am. Write or wire by return.-- Yours, "GEORGE."Such was the letter received by me, Frank Willard, student in OdenwaldCollege, Heidelberg, on the first day of the last month of the year. The writer of the letter was my brother, a captain in the--something. I take a pride in not remembering the number of the regiment, for I ama man of peace and hate war and all connected therewith, excepting, ofcourse, my soldier-brother, though my affection for him had somewhatwaned of late years, for a reason that will soon appear.