Summary

Helen Joyce is given a secret message to go to the Western. She is led into a back room there and given a message and instructions. She travels to a farmhouse looking for a few young men. A man tells her that the boys she is looking for are at Crowley’s, and he offers to lead her there. Once she arrives, a woman she met a long time ago takes her to the drawing room. Michael Redmond takes the message, shrugs, and Helen must make her way back to the city, disappointed that the message seems unimportant. She decides to stay for tea first, and is told the story of Tommy and Vincent. Tommy is at the Crowley, and Vincent is a commanding officer of Staters, but they were once best friends.

An army doctor arrives and asks one of...