ning of

m involving an imaginary attack upon this country by a powerful foreign foe, and the proper line of defense. The competi

who by wide acclaim was considered the greatest military authority in the Army. That he should wi

wed to study it and hand in a written dissertation thereon. It was arranged that the gene

that he had won the medal. For a few days he was a national sensation. The distinction of the first winner, who was again a contestant, and Philip's youth and obscurity, made such a striking contrast that

part of the people, expressed by them in divers ways, offered him reinstatement in the Army with the rank of Major, and indicated, through the Secretary of War, that he would be

ow obscure, it was assumed that he would gladly seize such an opportunity for a brilliant career within his

understood a

his offer down lightly. Such an opportuni

ever, I am now committed to a life work of a different character, one in which glory and success as the world knows it can never enter,

hours of bitter regret. This is the parting of the ways with you. Take the advice of one who loves you well and turn into the road

die, perhaps, happy and contented. But constituted as I am, when I began to travel along that road, from its dust there would arise to haunt me the ghosts of those of my fellowmen who had lived and died with

h hers, that he might know her thoug

and rather hysterical, but that he had been able to do a big thing made him surer of his ground in his new field of endeavor. He believed,