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"Good God!" I stammered, "it is not for ht of hiether--I can not endure I tell you, the dread of this man has entered my very soul; there is terror at a hint of him Can I not stay, Colonel? Is there no way for , so alone----"

Hope died as I met his eye I set my teeth and crushed speech into silence

"The welfare of a nation comes first," he said slowly

"I know--I know--but----"

"All must sacrifice to that principle, Carus Have not the iven their all? I tell you, the army shall eat, but the bread they rain; and for every loaf they bake a life has been offered Where is the New Yorker who has not faced what you are facing? At the crack of the a eyes look upon wife and children falling under knife and hatchet It must be so if the army is to eat and liberty live in this country we dare call our own And when the call sounds,Yorkerschildren know it, God bless them!--and they proudly take their chances--nay, they deed nor the weak, neither mother nor cradled babe, nor the hound at the door, nor the cattle, nor any living thing in this red fury of destruction!"

He had risen, eyes glittering, face hardened into stone "Go to your betrothed and say good-by You do not know her yet, I think"

"She is Canadienne," I said

"She is what the man she loves is--if she honors him His cause is hers, his country hers, his God is her God!"

"Her heart is with neither side----"

"Her heart is with you! Shame to doubt her--if I read her eyes! Read them, Carus!"

I wheeled, speechless; Elsin Grey stood beforeher hand onColonel Willett with a smile All color had fled from her face, but neither lip nor voice quivered as she spoke: "I think you do understand, sir We Canadiennes yield nothing in devotion to the women of New York Where we love, we honor What matters it where the alarive them to the cause of freedom as well here in Tryon County as on the plains of Abraha into