“Take this tree,” she said pausing after a short while. “To you it is just that,a tree.Not unlike many others here.”She gently touched the bark. “Look here, under this branch,what can you see?”
“It looks as if someone has done a bit of carving with a knife,”I said.
“Yes,that's what it is!” she said softly. “There are letters and a lover's heart.”
I looked again,this time more carefully.The heart was still there and there was a suggestion of an arrow through it.The letters on one side were indistinct,but on the other an‘R’was clearly visible with what looked like an ‘I’ after it. “Some romance?”I asked. “Did you know who they were? ”
“Oh yes,I knew them”,said Mary Smith, “it says RH loves MS.”
I realized that I could be getting out of my depth,and longed to be in my office,away from here and this old lady,with a mug of tea in my hand.
She went on, “He had a penknife,and I helped him to carve my initials.We were very much in love,but he was going away,and could not tell me what he was involved in in the army.I had guessed of course.It was the last evening we ever spent together,because he went away the next day,back to his unit.”
Mary Smith was quiet for a while,then she sobbed. “His mother showed me the telegram.Sergeant R Holmes... never backed in action in the invasion of France.”
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