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When he was absorbed his habit was to tap the desk edge with the blunt end of his pencil. "Some papers for your signature, sir," said the clerk as he slipped them on the blotter in front of Westerling. "And the 132d no order about that, sir?" he asked. "None. It remains!" Westerling replied. The clerk went out impressed. His chief taking to sums of subtraction and totally preoccupied!
The 132d to remain! He, too, had a question-mark in his secret mind. Westerling proceeded with his mathematics. Having heavily shaded the tens, he essayed a sum in division. He found that ten went into seventy just seven times. "One-seventh the allotted span of life!" he mused.
"The 128th Regiment has been ordered to South La Tir, but no order yet given for the 132d, whose place it takes," Turcas went on. "Let it remain for the present!" Westerling replied. After they had withdrawn, the look that passed between Turcas and Bouchard was a pointed question. The 132d to remain at South La Tir!
In the year 1862 Cornelius C. Cusick, a grandson of Nicholas Cusick, the revolutionist, was commissioned to the office of Second Lieutenant. There were four other Tuscaroras mustered in with him in the 3d N. Y. Volunteers, 132d Reg't, Co.
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