"I feel as if I were doing something at last," he said; "as if I was part of the biggest thing in the world.

Course I'm only a mighty little part, but, after all, it's something." Jed nodded, gravely.

"You bet it's somethin'," he argued.

"It's a lot, a whole lot.

I only wish I was standin' alongside of you in the ranks, Leander.