"Very probably I should. But I don't feel inclined to wish myself
better off than others. I am: willing to serve my country in any
capacity in which I can be of use. Thank Heaven, I am pretty
strong and healthy, and better fitted than many to encounter the
fatigues and exposures which are the lot of the private."

"How early must you start to-morrow, father?" inquired Frank.

"By daylight. I must be in Boston by nine o'clock, and you know
it is a five-mile ride to the depot. I shall want you to carry me
over."

"Will there be room for me?" asked Mrs. Frost. "I want to see the
last of you."

"I hope you won't do that for a long time to come," said Mr.
Frost, smiling.

"You know what I mean, Henry."

"Oh, yes, there will be room. At any rate, we will make room for
you. And now it seems to me it is time for these little folks to
go to bed. Charlie finds it hard work to keep his eyes open."

"Oh, papa, papa, not yet, not yet," pleaded the children; and
with the thought that it might be many a long day before he saw
their sweet young faces again, the father suffered them to have
their way.

After the children had gone to bed Frank and his father and