"Dunno but he 'll tek the hull garrison 'fore sunrise," he
muttered. "Let 'em come--might es well hev comp'ny."

A little before daylight a man sick in the hospital explained the
situation. He had given D'ri his orders. They brought him out on
a stretcher. The orders were rescinded, the prisoners released.

Captain Hawkins, hot to his toes with anger, took D'ri to
headquarters. General Brown laughed heartily when he heard the
facts, and told D'ri he was made of the right stuff.

"These greenhorns are not nice to play with," he said. "They're
like some guns--loaded when you don't expect it. We 've had enough
skylarking."

And when the sick man came out of hospital he went to the
guard-house.

After we had shown our mettle the general always had a good word
for D'ri and me, and he put us to the front in every difficult
enterprise.




VI

We had been four months in Ogdensburg, waiting vainly for some
provocation to fight. Our own drilling was the only sign of war we
could see on either side of the river. At first many moved out of