"Is not that so, Kate ?" "With you it is," she answered, with another of her wonderful glances; and the mother, watching the faces of the pair, rose from her seat and crept from the room.

Her heart was at once glad and sorrowful, proud and heavy; she felt that she must ease it with a little weeping before she could talk of this great thing with the spirit her son would look to find in her.
Wolfe and Kate were left alone together.

He got possession of her other hand.

She was standing before him still, a beautiful bloom upon her face, her eyes shining like stars.
"You are pleased with all this, my Kate ?" he asked; and he let the last words escape him unconsciously.
"Pleased that your country should do you this great honour?
Of course I am pleased.

You have deserved it at her hands; yet men do not always get their deserts in this world." "No; and you must not think that there are not hundreds of better and braver men than myself in our army, or that I am a very wonderful person.