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Lilies are a part of my creed. 'Consider the lilies, how they grow." "With their long rubbery stems, up out of mud mostly," Thaine said carelessly. "I pretty nearly grew fast along with them down there, till I learned how to gather them a better way." The woodland shadows were thrust through with shafts of white moonbeams, giving a weird setting to the silent midnight hour.
And the Twentieth Kansas, under Colonel Fred Funston, broke camp and hurried to San Francisco to be ready to answer that call. Thaine Aydelot had never been outside of Kansas before.
As they came to a crest of the prairie looking down a long verdant slope toward what was now a woodsy draw, Thaine said, "Leigh, my mother was lost here somewhere once and Doctor Carey found her. Maybe Doctor Carey is the man to help you now." "Oh, Thaine, I believe I could ask Doctor Carey for anything. You are so good to think of him," Leigh exclaimed. "I knew you'd help me out."
"You can face it all for me?" he asked. "With you, you mean. Yes, for we'll stop at 'The Sign of the Sunflower' so long as we both shall live. How beautiful they are, these endless bands of gold, drawing us on and on across the plains. Asher, you forget that Virginia is not as it was before the war. But we did keep inherited pride in the Thaine family, and the will to do as we pleased.
Thaine pointed toward the misty southwest horizon where three darker curves were outlined against a background of pale purple blending through lilac up to silvery gray. "I'm going there some day," the boy insisted. "And leave your papa and mamma?" "They left their papas and mammas, too," Thaine philosophized. The men laughed, although each felt a curious deep pain at the boy's words.
Where's your uniform?" Todd asked, staring at Thaine's clothes. "With yours, still. Make a minute of it when you get it, won't you?" Thaine replied. "Our common Uncle wants soldiers. He has no time to give to their clothes. A ragged shirt or naked breast will stop a Spanish bullet as well as a khaki suit." "Do you mean to say you haven't your soldier uniform yet?" Todd broke in.
"Look here, Private Thaine Aydelot, Twentieth Kansas Volunteers, if you are going to be a soldier stop that memory business right here, except to remember what Private Asher Aydelot, of the Third Ohio Infantry, told you about guard duty twenty-six hours out of twenty-four. Heigh ho!" Thaine ended with a sigh, then he shut his teeth grimly and stared at the unceasing downpour with unseeing eyes.
"But I can grow to look like any thing I want to like a big elephant or a hippopopamus or a angel, or any thing," Thaine assured her. "Well, escuse me from any of the free a angel or a elephant. I don't know what the poppy one is, but it's too poppy," Leigh said decisively. There were others in the Grass River settlement who would have envied the mythical Prince Quippi also.
Good-by," Thaine declared, and, at the bugle call, fell into his place. Beyond the river a steady fire was opened on the American forces, and no bridge nor boat was there by which to cross. Doctor Carey stood watching the situation with a strange sense of unrest in his mind. "There must be rafts," declared Colonel Funston. And there were rafts, hastily made of bamboo poles.
"It will be all shadow if you wait much longer. The clouds are gathering now and we must start home." "Then I must be going, too. It's a lovely, lazy place here, though. Some time I'm going to the top of those bluffs, away off there." "Let's go up now," Thaine suggested. "But it's too late. I mustn't keep the crowd waiting," Leigh insisted. "It's a stiff climb, too." "I can drive up.
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