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Updated: May 7, 2025
When the order to prepare for the march came, Glen, following the example of his comrades, packed three days' cooked rations in his haversack, made his blankets into a roll, tieing their ends together, threw them scarf-fashion over his shoulder, and took his accustomed place as file-closer in the rear of his company.
He deliberately allowed his attention to wander, until he felt rather than actually perceived the steady tramp-tramp of the men, swinging, fours right, into column, the occasional "hep! hep!" of an officious file-closer, the endless succession of fours winking past him, like the palings of a gray fence seen from the window of a train, the intervals narrowed by short-step, widening again at the "Forward march!" the blare of the band, lessening as it approached the further end of the building, then suddenly bursting into its former volume at the right-about.
Seeing the two gentlemen standing together, he paused with a mystified look in his wide-open eyes, trying to comprehend the situation. "Oliver, come here," said the Colonel, quietly. "This is your other grandfather." The boy came forward, and, wheeling, stood close beside the Colonel, facing General Hampden, like a soldier dressing by his file-closer.
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