I have missed it many and many a time since I came into
this war. It is filled with the most beautiful problems, Dick, questions
which will take many a good man a whole night to solve. When I think of
the joyous hours I've spent over it some of the tenderest chords in my
nature are touched."
Pennington uttered a deep groan and buried his face in the grass.
Then he raised it again and said mournfully:
"Let's make a solemn agreement, Dick, to watch over our poor comrade.
I always knew that something was wrong with his mind, although he means
well, and his heart is in the right place. As for me, as soon as I
finished my algebra I sold it, and took a solemn oath never to look
inside one again. That I call the finest proof of sanity anybody could
give. Oh, look at him, Dick! He's studying his blessed algebra and
doesn't hear a word I say!"
Warner was buried deep in the pages of a plus b and x minus y, and Dick
and Pennington, rising solemnly, walked noiselessly from the presence
around to the other side of the little opening where they lay down again.
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