fs, guns, and simulated battle. A whiff of dust showed where the battery ambled townward among roadside gardens, the Callender carriage spinning by it to hurry its three ladies an

waited the train from town. Out afield were left only General Brodnax and Greenleaf, d

ry forever walk as though he were bringing the be

le, if you'd like to borrow

No, Greenleaf's going by train.

--why, of course, if Fred re

lar

, un

w? Like my gi

, she's fine!

ay? What mu

seem like the owner of a field battery. My good

! She's the quiet kind, sir, tha

iet; quiet as a fortification by

een settled. I asked him--oh, don't look surpris

. "I wish," mused the nephew alo

: "Did you ever, my boy, wish a

there's a big

ing to make Adolphe my adjutant-general. Then if y

ilary. "That'll suit us both to th

don't want him for my heir nor any girl with 'tang' for mistress of my lands and people. Hilary, I swear! if you've got the sand to wa

couldn't tempt me to marry the girl I would

ight hold you back even from th

the nephew, "n

t easy for you to ask for her. If not, I'll make

Suddenly he sobered and glowed: "I wish you'd leave it to Adolphe! He's a heap-sight better business man than I.

black: "You actuall

litionist, but I don't want that kind of property. I don't want the life that has to go with it.

sir,

re, and I hon

m much obliged to you

good-natured young man. "Good-eve

ind that Hilary cast a look back. But the

rain. There, wholly undetected by the very man who had said some women were too feminine and she was one, she had played her sex against his with an energy veiled only by its i