"It's like greeting one of our very own, Harry," he said. "You were
with us in Charleston at the great beginning. We were afraid you would
have to stay in the west."
"The big things will begin here," said Harry.
"There can be no doubt of it. Do you know, Harry, that we are less than
thirty miles from Washington! If there were any hill high enough around
here we could see the white dome of the Capitol which we hope to take
before the summer is over. But we'll take you to the Colonel and Major
Hector St. Hilaire, that was, but Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St. Hilaire
that is."
Colonel Talbot was sitting at a small table in a tent, the sides of
which had been raised all around, leaving only a canvas roof.
Lieutenant-Colonel St. Hilaire sat opposite him across the table,
and they were studying intently a small map of a region that was soon to
be sown deep with history. They looked up when Harry came with his two
friends, and gave him the welcome that he knew he would always receive
from them.
"I've had a letter from your father," said Colonel Leonidas Talbot,
"and I've been expecting you. You are to be a lieutenant on my staff,
and the quartermaster will sell you a new uniform as glossy and fine as
those of which St.
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