The Link: Published Monthly (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The sergeant went into the florist shop a little shyly. He said: "I want a pot of tulips. I want something that you can put fancy green stuff around and tie a bow on. Something nice, see. It's for a lady."

The florist - a tired little man - peered up at the sergeant's breadth of shoulder, at the intent blue of his eyes, and mentally marked down the largest pot of tulips. He said, "The nicest ones I have are white ones." And the sergeant nodded, "Okay. Doll 'em up and wrap 'em up and I'll get going."

There was a rustle of paper, the soft crinkle that satin ribbon makes when it's tied into a bow, and the rattle that a bill makes when it changes hands. And then the sergeant was out on the street, with his arm curved around a paper-swathed bundle, and was walking toward the place where she lived. This was the day before Easter and on Easter he was due to get aboard the boat that would take him from here to there, so this was goodbye.

She was such a little thing, hardly up to his shoulder. She had a fluff of bright hair and wide eyes that looked more than a trifle frightened when he told her about bayonet practice and how he'd won a medal for sharp-shooting, and how - when he got overseas - he was going to knock out a whole battalion of those rats with a well directed hand grenade.

"Why, Bill, they're the last thing I ever thought you'd give me?"

They'd met at a USO party and he'd dated her, quick, but he hadn't seen her often - not as often as he'd have liked to, because he didn't have much free time and she was so sort of hesitant about going places and doing things.

That war picture he'd taken her to, for instance - she hadn't exactly seemed to enjoy it.

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