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19. enlisted and could not be discharged except in accordance with his sentence by court martial and the orders thereon from the Headquarters of the Army. When the situation had been made known to the Colonel, who was a man not easily disturbed where orders and regulations pointed out his duty, he stood up and looked at the place ahead a minute and then sat down and called "Orderly" "ask the Captain to come here." To the Captain when he reported, "Please land the boat as near that house," pointing it out, "as you can." The whistle was sounded for a landing and the boat headed for the shore below the house. Two women ran out from the dwelling and stood on the high bank in perplexity. As the landing was made one of the women ran down the zigzag pathway toward the shore. The landing stage was thrown out and the sick recruit was carried on shore. He called out faintly, the girl heard and turned her face up the bank and cried out ?, Mother, it's Jim" and the mother flew down and the three were united in a moment in a paroxysm of happiness. The Colonel was a study. He had been tender and careful the nearly dead man ashore but when he saw the boy revive? at the greetings of his mother and sister he became savage and ordering in the planks berated the men and scolded and stormed about their slowness. As the man on shore saw the boat leaving he fully