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"Melly," she said, "what's going to happen to Southern girls?" "What do you mean?" "Just what I say. What's going to happen to them? There's no one to marry them. Why, Melly, with all the boys dead, there'll be thousands of girls all over the South who'll die old maids." "And never have any children," added Melanie, to whom this was the most important thing. Evidently the thought was not new to Suellen who sat in the back of the wagon, for she suddenly began to cry. She had not heard from Frank Kennedy since Christmas. She did not know if the lack of mail service was the cause, or if he had merely trifled with her affections and then forgotten her. Or maybe he had been killed in the last days of the war! The latter would have "been infinitely preferable to his forgetting her, for at le