This persistent homage, though avoided long by Leah, became in time
not unwelcome; and as month after month passed on, she often
whispered to herself, "Struggle as I may against it, I do love him.
Love wins love, always, I believe."

George Marshall, realizing the fulfilment of his long-cherished
dream, was in the active service of his country, a captain in the
regular army. Though he was removed from his native State, no one
who knew him could doubt that he stood firmly, bravely at his post
of duty, ready to do his country's work at her bidding.






CHAPTER XIV.





"MY son," said Mrs. Abrams, in low, gentle tone to Mark one day, as
she looked into the small library where he sat busily at work upon
something half-concealed in his hand, "come here a mimute, won't
you?"

"Are you in a hurry, mother?" he replied, lifting his black eyes,
bright with an expression of determination, and resting them full
upon his mother's face.