alted.

"Glad to see you back, Overton."

"Thank you, sir."

"And you, too, Terry."

"Thank you, sir."

"And, by the way, Terry, I have remembered your request that you be
transferred to B Company, and to Sergeant Hupner's squad room. Captain
Freeman said he was sorry to lose you, Terry; but since you wanted to be
with your friend, he has consented to your transfer to B Company. The
matter has been arranged through the adjutant, and my first sergeant
will notify you of your transfer when you return to your former squad
room. I'm very glad, Terry, to have so good a soldier as yourself in B
Company, even if I do have to rob Captain Freeman."

"Thank you, sir," replied Noll, with another salute.

Then the two young soldiers resumed their walk. Just as soon as they
were out of earshot of Captain Cortland, Noll broke forth jubilantly:

"In the same company at last, Hal, old fellow. Oh, won't it be great,
now that we're truly bunkies at last!"

Great indeed--greater than either Hal Overton or Noll Terry guessed.
They stood at the beginning, though neither suspected it, of some
exciting and never-to-be-forgotten incidents and phases of the soldier's
life.

What followed, however, will have to be reserved for the next volume in
this series, which will be published under the title: "UNCLE SAM'S BOYS
ON FIELD DUTY; Or, Winning Corporal's Chevrons." In this volume the two
young soldiers will be found to be no longer recruits, but trained
soldiers of the Regular Army, and in the midst of a series of rousing
adventures incidental to the military life.

THE END.

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