Then began a new adventure, in some ways the most startling of all.
It had to do with another girl, and the beginning was in the home of
Ada Ruth, where a few of the most uncompromising of the pacifists
gathered to discuss the question of raising money to pay for their
legal defense. To this meeting came Miriam Yankovich, pale from an
operation for cancer of the breast, but with a heart and mind as Red
as ever. Miriam had brought along a friend to help her, because she
wasn't strong enough to walk; and it was this friend who started
Peter on his new adventure.
Rosie Stern was her name, and she was a solid little Jewish working
girl, with bold black eyes, and a mass of shining black hair, and
flaming cheeks and a flashing smile. She was dressed as if she knew
about her beauty, and really appreciated it; so Peter wasn't
surprised when Miriam, introducing her, remarked that Rosie wasn't a
Red and didn't like the Reds, but had just come to help her, and to
see what a pacifist meeting was like. Perhaps Peter might help to
make a Red out of her! And Peter was very glad indeed, for he was
never more bored with the whining of pacifists than now when our
boys were hurling the Germans back from the Marne and writing their
names upon history's most imperishable pages.
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