I do not remember that I ever saw him with a smile on in public before . Of course he may have just been getting the better of somebody in a cattle deal but I have an awful presentiment that the Huns have broken through somewhere . '' Perhaps Susan was unjust in connecting Mr. Pryor 's smile with the sinking of the Lusitania , news of which circulated an hour later when the mail was distributed . But the Glen boys turned out that night in a body and broke all his windows in a fine frenzy of indignation over the Kaiser 's doings . `` I do not say they did right and I do not say they did wrong , '' said Susan , when she heard of it . `` But I will say that I would n't have minded throwing a few stones myself . One thing is certain -- Whiskers-on-the-moon said in the post office the day the news came , in the presence of witnesses , that folks who could not stay home after they had been warned deserved no better fate . Norman Douglas is fairly foaming at the mouth over it all . ` If the devil does n't get those men who sunk the Lusitania then there is no use in there being a devil , ' he was shouting in Carter 's store last night . Norman Douglas always has believed that anybody who opposed him was on the side of the devil , but a man like that is bound to be right once in a while . Bruce Meredith is worrying over the babies who were drowned . And it seems he prayed for something very special last Friday night and did n't get it , and was feeling quite disgruntled over it . But when he heard about the Lusitania he told his mother that he understood now why God did n't answer his prayer -- He was too busy attending to the souls of all the people who went down on the Lusitania . That child 's brain is a hundred years older than his body , Mrs. Dr. dear . As for the Lusitania , it is an awful occurrence , whatever way you look at it . But Woodrow Wilson is going to write a note about it , so why worry ? A pretty president ! '' and Susan banged her pots about wrathfully . President Wilson was rapidly becoming anathema in Susan 's kitchen . Mary Vance dropped in one evening to tell the Ingleside folks that she had withdrawn all opposition to Miller Douglas 's enlisting .
`` This Lusitania business was too much for me , '' XXXXX Mary brusquely .
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