We can't go anywhere without him." The old man smiled down upon her in reassurance.

"I wonder what he'll say when he finds the soldiers have come.

I wonder if he'll like it." Gale turned his eyes down-stream to the barracks, and noted that the long flag-staff had at last been erected.

Even as he looked he saw a bundle mounting towards its tip, and then beheld the Stars and Stripes flutter out in the air, while the men below cheered noisily.

It was some time before he answered.
"Poleon Doret is like the rest of us men up here in the North.