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She say s on the other side, nodded to me in quiet content: "Now all she lacked she"All will be well, thank God! Let her sleep!"

She heard hi me as I rode beside her

"It was only you I lacked, Carus," she , fell into a deep, sweet sleep

Then, as we rode into the first outlying far out to us in their Low Dutch jargon, and at first I scarce heeded the there in the sunlight, and her white, cool skin and her un shook the air with swift concussion The pleasant Dutch bells swung aloft in mellow harmony Suddenly, far behind where our infantry moved in column, I heard cheer on cheer burst forth, and the horns and fifes in joyous fanfare, echoed by the solid outbreak of the dru for, mother?" I asked an old Dutch dae the Virginian, sir," she said, di me a courtesy

"George the Virginian?" I asked, wondering "Do you mean his Excellency?"

And still she dimpled and nodded and bobbed her white starched cap, and I , "Yorktown!" and "The war ends! Hurrah!"

"Hurrah! Hurrah!" shouted apast us up the hill; "Butler's dead, and Cornwallis is taken!"

"Taken?" I repeated incredulously

The booainst the blue a jeweled ensign fluttered, silver, azure and blood red, its staff and halyards wrapped in writhing jets of snohite suns

I rode toward it, cap in hand, head raised, awed in the presence of God's own victory! The shouting streets echoed and reechoed as we passed between packed ranks of townspeople; cheers, the pealing rew to a swih, croith the golden nimbus of the sun!

"Carus!"

"Ah, sweetheart, did they wake you? Sleep on; the war is over!" I whispered, bending low above her "Now indeed is all ith the world, and fit once more for you to live in"