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"What have you been doing, Bee?" "Nothing much. How pretty you are. Aunt Eleanor! I haven't seen your cheeks so pink for many a day." The deep colour mantled Mrs. Mackenzie's fair face. " Where 's Robert ? " she asked hastily. "Don't know," murmtired Beatrice, instantly beating a retreat. " See, Aunt Eleanor." Out of the mysterious recesses of her pocket, she drew a bag, made of gay calico, with a long string attached to it. "Very pretty — ^what is it for, dear?" " It 's for cartridges," laughe...d Beatrice. " If I ride with the soldiers, I have to bear arms. I 've got my pistol — the one Mr. Ronald gave me the day after I came here, and I 'm going over to the Port now, after ammunition." She seemed to be in high spirits as she pirouetted around the room, but there was an undertone of sadness, even in her latigh. She was half-way to " If I Were in Command " 293 the door when she turned, moved by a sudden tenderness, and came back. "Dear, sweet Atmt Eleanor," she said, rubbing her cheek against Mrs.
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