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The captain pulled at his beard. "Yes," he admitted, "seems as if we was. He ain't any wonder at bookkeepin', but he's better'n he used to be; and he does seem to try hard, I'll say that for him." Rachael beamed gratification. "He'll be a Robert Penfold yet," she declared; "see if he isn't. So you musn't encourage him into enlistin' in the Canadian army.
Would you like to see it; that part of it, I mean?" Jed took the crumpled and tear-stained letter from her hand. "I think I ought to tell you, Maud," he said, "that writin' this was his own idea. It was me that suggested his enlistin', although I found he'd been thinkin' of it all along, but I was for havin' him go and enlist and then come back and tell you and Sam. But he says, 'No.
'Ye should leave the weemen alane, an' then ye wud ha'e time to spare. 'What ha'e ye got to speak aboot? Macgregor impatiently demanded, though he was in good time for his appointment. 'I was thinkin' o' enlistin', said Willie. 'Oh! cried his friend, interested. 'Ye've changed yer mind, Wullie? 'I've been conseederin' it for a while back.
He wrote the letter after he'd gone so as to make it easier for her to say no, if she felt like sayin' it. And when he came back from enlistin' he was goin' straight to you to make a clean breast of everything. He's a good boy, Sam. He's had hard luck and he's been in trouble, but he's all right and I know it. And you know it, too, Sam Hunniwell. Down inside you you know it, too.
Say, Al, if General what's-his-name er von Hindenburg is any harder scrapper than old Field Marshal Barleycorn he's a pretty tough one. Say, Al, you didn't say anything about about my er enlistin' to Cap'n Lote, did you? I meant to ask you not to." "I didn't, Labe. I thought you might want it kept a secret." "Um-hm.
"I seen em when they was enlistin'. Said they was goin' to whip the Yankees and be back for breakfast in the morning. "Marse Ben was goin' and Miss Susan say, 'Virginia, if you think he ain't goin' come back you ought to kiss him goodbye. I said, 'I ain't goin' to kiss no white man. "Miss Fanny went up the ladder and sot rite on the roof and watched the soldiers goin' by. Yes'm.
"Danged ef I don't respect Secesh like them," broke out Dyke. "Ye'll not sin his soul with a test-oath. Thar's grit thar. Well, God help us!" Palmer stepped down from the pulpit; but the old man, seeing him coming, turned and shouldered his way out of the crowd, his haggard face blood-red. "What'll the old chap say to Gaunt's enlistin'?" said Dyke. "Gaunt in?
And I had to give in that the way he'd behaved his goin' off and enlistin', settlin' that before he asked her or spoke to me, was a square, manly thing to do. The only thing I had against him was that Middleford mess. And I believe he's a GOOD boy in spite of it." "He is, Sam. That Middleford trouble wan't all his fault, by any means!" "I know.
And he'll stay just as far from me as he can until he is sworn in. He already knows how I feel about his enlistin'." Her gloved hands tightened on the reins. "If I could see John Morgan himself " "If you could get to Lexington and find him " "But Boyd's just a child.
Leander and I have always been pretty good friends and he's been in the habit of droppin' in here to talk things over with me. When he came to me to ask what he ought to do about enlistin', asked what I'd do if I was he, I told him; that's all there was to it." Babbitt extended a shaking forefinger. "Yes, and you told him to go to war. Don't lie out of it now; you know you did."
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