The Far Common of Devon is donated to the war effort, to be used in the training of parachute riggers. Gene and Brinker look on as a convoy of jeeps arrive and begin unloading the sewing machines, which will be used in the creation of parachutes. The two briefly discuss the fate of Leper, but finally decide that there's no sense in discussing something that they can't do anything about. Summer has returned to Devon in all its lazy beauty, but Gene fears that the "Gypsy summer" of last year will never come again.
Brinker takes Gene down to the Butt Room to meet his father. Brinker's father, full of patriotic machismo, can barely contain his disgust at the boys' desire to serve their country in safer branches of the military. He insists that.....
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