Langdon sprang to his feet in anger and exclaimed: "Hey, you fellow, what do you mean by that ?" He saw before him a tall, gawky youth in ill-fitting clothes, his face a mask of dust.

But this same dusty youth grinned and replied: "I hit you once, and if you don't speak to me more politely I'll hit you twice." Langdon stared.

Then recognition came.
"Harry Kenton, by all that's wonderful!" he exclaimed.

"And so you've come back! I was afraid you never would! What have you been doing, Harry ?" "I've been pretty busy.

I drove in the right wing of the Yankee army, put to flight a couple of brigades in their center, then I went on to Washington and had a talk with Lincoln.