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Her phrases , her intentions , were all very far away in an incomprehensible past . At the second letter he scarcely glanced ; it was from Dot -- an incoherent , tear-swollen scrawl , a flood of protest , endearment , and grief . After a page he let it slip from his inert hand and drowsed back into a nebulous hinterland of his own . At drill-call he awoke with a high fever and fainted when he tried to leave his tent -- at noon he was sent to the base hospital with influenza . He was aware that this sickness was providential . It saved him from a hysterical relapse -- and he recovered in time to entrain on a damp November day for New York , and for the interminable massacre beyond . When the regiment reached Camp Mills , Long Island , Anthony 's single idea was to get into the city and see Gloria as soon as possible .