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I lay listening to him with relief. Evidently we had not gone to war in the night, or he would have referred to it; but he was saying something which seemed almost more important at the moment. As far as I could hear, someone had not got his mask yet and was making a to-do about it. There were two hundred people who had not got their masks then, as I very well knew, and they all needed to be found.

Meanwhile, however, some of the family had to get to London; Grog to take care of his mother and P.Y.C. to attend to business, while Cooee was busy with the animals, who needed to eat even if the sky fell; so Albert's sister Olive and Mr. and Mrs. Carr S. and I went down to the hall and opened shop, as soon as we had sent word round that we were going there. Sending word round Auburn consisted of going into the shop where Albert's father was selling newspapers and cigarettes and telling everyone who happened to be talking there. There was quite a crowd that morning, and Albert's mother undertook to get the news about.