nd this minute."

"Name it then."

"You think I am counting on asking him for money."

Isaac's face flushed and he made no reply.

"I might have done so a few days ago, but now I am coming around on the
same track with father, and say that the colonists do right in resisting
the king. If it so be he permits, I will enlist this day."

And Nathan Beman kept his promise, even going so far as to desire
Corporal 'Lige should stand sponsor for him when, the message having
been delivered, Colonel Allen thanked them again and again for the
cheering intelligence and asked what they would choose as their reward.

"Only the permission to enlist," Nathan said, and the colonel stared at
him in open-mouthed astonishment for several seconds, after which he
asked with a laugh:

"Are you not the same lad who so thirsted for money that he refused to
show the way into the fort unless first paid for his services?"

"Ay, sir; but I have come to think differently since then, and now I'm
going for a soldier, because it looks to me as if the colonists would
speedily worst the king."

"Whereas a few days ago it appeared to you that the boot was on the
other foot?"

"I did not think farmers could be turned into soldiers, sir."

"You may readily believe it now, lad, more especially since you have
seen how easy it is for one who was almost a royalist to become a good
American, and now I am speaking of yourself. Enlist wherever you will,
and I will take it upon myself to see that both you lads rise in the
service as rapidly as you shall deserve."

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