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There was an occasional flash and glimmer of steel from the backs of all these huge crawl-ing reptiles.From the road came creakings and grumblings as some surly guns were dragged away.

The men stumbled along still muttering specu-lations.There was a subdued debate.Once a man fell down, and as he reached for his rifle a comrade, unseeing, trod upon his hand.He of the injured fingers swore bitterly and aloud.Alow, tittering laugh went among his fellows.

Presently they passed into a roadway and marched forward with easy strides.A dark regiment moved before them, and from behind also came the tinkle of equipments on the bodies of marching men.

The rushing yellow of the developing day went on behind their backs.When the sunrays at last struck full and mellowingly upon the earth, the youth saw that the landscape was streaked with two long, thin, black columns which disappeared on the brow of a hill in front and rearward vanished in a wood.They were like two serpents crawling from the cavern of the night.

The river was not in view.The tall soldier burst into praises of what he thought to be his powers of perception.

Some of the tall one's companions cried with emphasis that they, too, had evolved the same thing, and they congratulated themselves upon it.But there were others who said that the tall one's plan was not the true one at all.They per-sisted with other theories.There was a vigorous discussion.

The youth took no part in them.As he walked along in careless line he was engaged with his own eternal debate.He could not hin-der himself from dwelling upon it.He was de-spondent and sullen, and threw shifting glances about him.He looked ahead, often expecting to hear from the advance the rattle of firing.

But the long serpents crawled slowly from hill to hill without bluster of smoke.A dun-col-ored cloud of dust floated away to the right.

The sky overhead was of a fairy blue.

The youth studied the faces of his compan-ions, ever on the watch to detect kindred emo-tions.He suffered disappointment.Some ardor of the air which was causing the veteran com-mands to move with glee--almost with song--had infected the new regiment.The men began to speak of victory as of a thing they knew.

Also, the tall soldier received his vindication.

They were certainly going to come around in behind the enemy.They expressed commisera-tion for that part of the army which had been left upon the river bank, felicitating themselves upon being a part of a blasting host.

The youth, considering himself as separated from the others, was saddened by the blithe and merry speeches that went from rank to rank.

The company wags all made their best endeav-ors.The regiment tramped to the tune of laughter.

The blatant soldier often convulsed whole files by his biting sarcasms aimed at the tall one.

And it was not long before all the men seemed to forget their mission.Whole brigades grinned in unison, and regiments laughed.

A rather fat soldier attempted to pilfer a horse from a dooryard.He planned to load his knap-sack upon it.He was escaping with his prize when a young girl rushed from the house and grabbed the animal's mane.There followed a wrangle.The young girl, with pink cheeks and shining eyes, stood like a dauntless statue.

The observant regiment, standing at rest in the roadway, whooped at once, and entered whole-souled upon the side of the maiden.The men became so engrossed in this affair that they entirely ceased to remember their own large war.

They jeered the piratical private, and called attention to various defects in his personal ap-1

To her, from some distance, came bold advice.

"Hit him with a stick."

There were crows and catcalls showered upon him when he retreated without the horse.

The regiment rejoiced at his downfall.Loud and vociferous congratulations were showered upon the maiden, who stood panting and regard-ing the troops with defiance.

At nightfall the column broke into regimental pieces, and the fragments went into the fields to camp.Tents sprang up like strange plants.

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

The youth kept from intercourse with his companions as much as circumstances would allow him.In the evening he wandered a few paces into the gloom.From this little distance the many fires, with the black forms of men pass-ing to and fro before the crimson rays, made weird and satanic effects.

He lay down in the grass.The blades pressed tenderly against his cheek.The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

The liquid stillness of the night enveloping him made him feel vast pity for himself.There was a caress in the soft winds; and the whole mood of the darkness, he thought, was one of sympathy for himself in his distress.

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