Journal Ten

Last week I received a letter from Leper, in the letter he had stated that he had escaped and needed me to come to his "Christmas Location." After thinking about it, by "Christmas Location," Leper was talking about his home in Vermont. So today, I went to Leper's rescue. During my journey, I did some thinking. It came to my attention that you cannot escape from war so what was he talking about? He must have gotten into trouble and escaped from that. "'You didn't "escape" from the army, so he must have escaped from something else.'" It was morning by the time I reached the Lepellier house.

(This house reminds me of the Lepellier house,

up on the hill in Vermont.)

When I arrived, Leper invited me into the dinning room where we sat and talked for a while. In our discussion, Leper had announced that he had left the war because the army wanted to give him a Section Eight Discharge for insanity. "'I escaped!' the word surging out in a voice and intensity that was not Leper's." Later in our conversation, Leper had began to get very intense, it did not take long for him to start accusing me of shattering Finny's leg. This really set me off which had caused me to kick over Leper's chair. 

(This chair reminds me of the one I kicked

when Leper was sitting in it.)