“_Some_one must keep watch lest the Heavens fall!” --_The Vinegar Saint._ This chronicle of Gorgas and her friends was within sight of the end when out of Germany came the incredible news of war. Twenty-five years earlier Bardek had fought “the big Austrian” because “he had spoke against the French”; all of which the present scribe had duly writ down, but only as one tells of ancient passions or historic loves and hates. Who, outside of unspeakable Germany, was prepared for the shock of the world war? Then, when our own boys were moving across the seas--just because one had “spoke against the French”--the history of Gorgas and the Vinegar Saint was put aside, a…
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