To his more intimate friends he had been variously known as "Rollo Abroad," "Rollo in Love," "Rollo in Search of a Wife," or "Rollo at Play," and when Ridge became acquainted with him in Yokohama he was "Rollo in Japan." He now recognized our hero at a glance, and sprang forward with outstretched hand.
"Hello, Norris, my dear boy!" he cried.

"Whatever brings you here?
Thought you were still far away in the misty Orient, doing the grand among the little brown Japs, while here you are in flannel and canvas as though you were a major-general in the regular army.

What does it mean?
Are you one of us?
Have you too become a man of war, a fire-eater, a target for Mausers?
Have you enlisted under the banner of the screaming eagle ?" "Not yet," laughed Ridge, "but I am on my way East to do so in the first regiment uncontaminated by politics that I can find." "Then, old man, you don't want to go East.

You want to come West with us.

There is but one regiment such as you have named, and it is mine; for, behold! I am now Rollo in the Army, Rollo the Rough Rider, Rollo the Terror.