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Updated: June 25, 2025
It was the supreme moment for Thaine Aydelot. He was only a private, but in that instant all the old dominant Cavalier blood of the Thaines, all the old fearless independence of the Huguenot Aydelots, all the calm poise and courage of the Quaker Penningtons throbbed again in his every pulse-beat. He threw aside his soldier obligation and stood up a man, guided alone by the light within him.
Leigh's talent was only an undeveloped inheritance, but if it lacked training it's fresh originality was unspoiled. "The top of the afternoon to you." Leigh turned to see Thaine Aydelot looking down at her as he leaned over the high back of the rustic seat. He was in his working clothes with his straw hat set back, showing his brown face.
Leigh, who had been pleased with all of them, turned to her guardian, saying gravely: "Uncle Jim, can I go to school wif Thaine?" "You must meet that question every day now, Jim," Asher said. "Why not answer it and be rid of it?" "How can I answer it?" Jim queried. "Virgie, help us with this educational problem of the State," Asher turned to his wife.
Rosie knows just how to fix things in the kitchen, and I never need anybody else if Leigh can help me," Thaine declared. "How is this, Leigh?" Leigh gave a quick glance and answered: "Too heavy everywhere? Can we fix it right?" "You bet we can. I'm not going to have a thing wrong tonight," Thaine answered her. "But Jo fixed it, and you know Jo."
Wait a minute and I'll get you the money he left for you." Thaine threw himself down in the shade beside Leigh's seat while she went into the house. "I wish I didn't have to take that money, but I know better than to say a word," he said to himself. "Thank the Lord, the worried look is beginning to leave Uncle Jim's face, though. How could any of us get along without Uncle Jim?"
Six weeks after the death of Alford before Caloocan, Dr. Horace Carey came up from the hospital in Manila to the American line to see Thaine Aydelot.
"Then we are hopelessly bankrupt," Thaine declared. "Isn't this a wonderful night?" "Yes, and father and mother are going home so early," Jo said. "Well, your whole wardrobe is over here; why not stay all night? You can help Rosie and mother and me tomorrow. There are plenty of Benningtons left at your home without you, and mother will want you," Thaine urged. "Do you want me to?" Jo asked softly.
"The Rio Grande now. We must be nearly to the end if we rout General Luna here," Thaine replied. "You've stood it well. I guess you don't need me after all," Carey remarked. "I always need you, Doctor Carey," Thaine said earnestly. "Never more than now. When I saw Captain Clarke wounded and carried away on the other side of the Tulijan, and could only say 'Captain, my captain, I needed you.
Nor did ever Trojan nor Roman military hero have truer homage from the common private than the boy from the Grass River Valley paid to these young men commanding his company. The hardships of soldier life began for Thaine Aydelot and his regiment with the day of enlistment. The privations at Camp Leedy were many.
It's hot as the dickens this morning, and the prognostics are for a cyclone before twelve hours. It's nearly eleven of 'em now. I'll take you home when we are through. Thaine isn't the whole of Grass River and the adjacent creeks and tributaries and all that in them is."
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