SIMPLE STORIES
PRISONER-OF-WAR E wrote: "There’s a flavour of ‘I. shot an arrow in the air’ about this — letter. . . ." She studied the signature a long time before she could even remember the writer. Yes, surely he was one of her brother's school friends brought occasionally to the house 10 or | more years ago. She remembered hear- | ing that his only relative had died, and he had taken some lonely job in the — bush, With the letter was a photo of a group of prisoners. In vain she tried to identify the schoolboy of 10 years ago. He had written on the chance that some of the family might still be at the old address. Her plain face was excited, She had no one belonging to her in the Armyno letters-no news to exchange with -her workmates. Her part was that of listener. Next day when Mary and Jean began discussing their overseas mail, she broke her usual silence, "I’ve just had a letter from John, my friend who’s a prisoner-of-war." Proudly she held out the photo and pointed. The girls were impressed. "This goodlooking one in front? Gee!" The impulse was irresistible. She nodded soberly. "Yes, that’s my boy!"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 189, 5 February 1943, Page 11
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199SIMPLE STORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 189, 5 February 1943, Page 11
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