and gratuity, and turned financier, which I think wouldn't have pleased your old father.

Come, sit down here and let us talk." "I didn't leave the army, Mr.Jackson," answered his visitor; "it left me; I was invalided out.

They said I should never get my health back after that last go of fever, but I did." "Ah! bad luck, very bad luck, just at the beginning of what should have been a big career, for I know they thought highly of you at the War Office, that is, if they can think.

Well, you have grown into a fine-looking fellow, like your father, very, and someone else too," and he sighed, running his fingers through his grizzled hair.

"But you don't remember her; she was before your time.