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Too well did theIrish at such a command; yet, it ith a certain reluctance which invariably accompanies a backward step that theBansemer in his khaki unifor-roo His face was even handsoed lines and set features He was thinner and browner; his eyes were clearer and a darker grey; his hair seeure more erect and sinewy The wistful look in his eyes seeerness to be on the th and of his weakness He had the lean, active bearing of the panther and the restless daring of that lithe animal

No man in the company had stood fire as valiantly as he He courted the whiz of the bullet, scoffed at the rigours of the ood shot with the rifle He bore no grudge against the departnised in him a man of parts, a man of station far above the position which he had chosen in the army He was a source of hboys, the teaone into the army from choice or discretion At first they had called hihed at his white hands and clean jaws His indifference to their taunts annoyed theest bully of the lot and walked aithout even waiting to see whether he could arise after the blow He sih The co of the incident to the officer of the day

Every night before he lay down to sleep, In the rice field or the barrios, he took froazed at the small portrait it sheltered No one had been permitted to see him in his devotions, for that hat he called these sacred , softened as his eyes devoured the daintytheir company, Connell reported the situation ahead, to his superior officer; orders were given for the e close at hand That evening Banseainst the corner of a nipa shack so silently while they talked and made merry behind him He seldom joined in the ribald but suppressed conversations of the men