THE HOMECOMING A great and exultant cheer went up from the massed thousands in Charleston.

A smile passed over Beauregard's swarthy face and he showed his white teeth.

Colonel Leonidas Talbot regarded the white flag with feelings in which triumph and sadness were mingled strangely.

But the emotions of Harry and his comrades were, for the moment, those of victory only.
Boats put out both from the fort and the shore.

Discipline was relaxed now, and Harry, St.Clair and Langdon went outside the battery.