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Town talk may or may not be true; and the ladies like him none the less for the tales that circulate about him. But come now, no more questions, or we shall be late for the play!" Cale shook his head; but Tom was resolute.
When they came to the Riuer which the Gouernour had passed, they found palmitos vpon lowe Palmetrees like those of Andaluzia. There they met with the two horsemen which the Gouernour sent vnto them, and they brought newes that in Cale there was plentie of Maiz: at which newes they all reioyced.
Hee left Captaine Calderan at the Port, with thirtie horsemen, and seuentie footemen, with prouision for two yeeres, and himselfe with all the rest marched into the maine land, and came to the Paracossi, at whose towne Baltasar de Gallégos was: and from thence with all his men tooke the way to Cale.
Cale told him that he would thus best learn something of the language and gossip of the day, and be better able to hold his own when he went abroad; and Tom already felt that he possessed command of a thousand new epithets and words, to say nothing of the meaningless oaths and blasphemies, which made a part of the stock in trade of every fashionable man's vocabulary.
Max, you heard what was said, didn't you?" By this time the German-American student was free of his tormentor, a happy-go-lucky student named Henry Cale. He nodded to Songbird. "Yes, I heard it," he said, and gave Koswell a meaning look. "Fine business to be in, listening around corners," sneered Larkspur. "Say that once more and I'll punch your head!" cried Max, doubling up his fists.
Caleb Price to her relatives in Ohio said, the Wingates, leaders of the train, had a beautiful farm, near by the Cale Price Mill, as it was known. They had up a good house of five rooms, and their cattle were increasing now. They had forty acres in wheat, with what help the neighbors had given in housing and planting; and wheat would run fifty bushels to the acre there.
"And I'd have been in it, too, if pa hadn't up and told 'em I was only a little more than fifteen," said Cale, glowering at his father in the darkness. "You mustn't blame your pa, Cale," rebuked his mother. "He knows what a soldier's life is better than you do. He was down in that camp at Chattanooga during the Spanish War, and almost died of typhoid, Courtney.
Assoone as they came to Cale, the Gouernour commanded them to gather all the Maiz that was ripe in the field, which was sufficient for three moneths. At the gathering of it the Indians killed three Christians and one of them which were taken told the Gouernour that within seuen dayes iournie, there was a very great Prouince, and plentifull of Maiz, which was called Apalache.
Just before the first big Verdun drive we were transferred to that sector, and then we saw a lot of action." "Some battle, wasn't it?" exclaimed young Cale, a thrill in his voice. "Certainly was," said Courtney. "We used to work forty-eight hours at a stretch, taking 'em back by the thousands." "How near did the shells ever come to you?" "Oh, sometimes as close as twenty or thirty feet.
"I don't know what you are talking about," cried the other. "What's this you are saying? Have you lost your mind, Cale? My God, boy, I, why, what sort of a beast do you think I am? I I adored her. Come, come, Cale! Calm yourself! You know perfectly well how fond I was of her. I couldn't have done anything so foul as Why, Cale, she was nothing but a kid, a little girl to me.
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