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the Mexican captive? captain? down to see me one afternoon all on horseback. The girl was so grown? and improved that she could not have been recognized as the little ? ? I had first seen on the Arkansas. + The evening? before I left for the States the Clerk of the Company with his glee club serenaded me with some excellent songs one of which was original and dedicated to me as a farewell. The contrasted conditions of my finding and leaving this man at Fort Craig is one of my little consolations. The sergeant ase permission for the men to come across the parade ground to see me off and the touch? of their earnest eyes