and revictualed, for in two weeks my brother Henry may join you. I
believe he is for the south."

"Good-bye, sir. It has been a good time for me. You have been my teacher
more than my master, and you are a rich man and I am a poor one."

"A man's a man for all that, Captain."

"Well, sir, not always. Many are not men in spite of _all that_. God be
with you, sir."

"And with you, Captain." Then they clasped hands and turned away, each
man where Duty called him.




CHAPTER II

THE PEOPLE OF THE STORY


Slowly, steadily, to and fro,
Swings our life in its weary way;
Now at its ebb, and now at its flow,
And the evening and morning make up the day.

Sorrow and happiness, peace and strife,
Fear and rejoicing its moments know;
Yet from the discords of such a life,