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As he sat there he began to bandy words with the sergeant of a Maryland regiment that was passing. "Hello! what brigade?" called the sergeant in friendly tones. He looked fat and well fed, and Dan felt this to be good ground for resentment. "General Straggler's brigade, but it's none of your business," he promptly retorted.
Looked like some one'd branded several calves." "Don't doubt it," said the foreman. "Careful as we are there's always likely to be stragglers. An' to be a straggler's to be a goner in this man's land." "Unless he belongs t' Last's," said the irrepressible Billy. "I'll lay that fer every calf branded by Courtrey's gang we'll get back two." "Billy," said Tharon again, "Jim Last wasn't a thief.
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