t this moment called Clara through the blinds.
"Come in, Sweeny. Let us all have a talk together about the old times and
the new ones."

So there was a long talk, miscellaneous and delightful, full of
reminiscences and congratulations and good wishes.

"Wal, we're a lucky lot," said Glover at last. "Sh'd like to hear 'f some
good news for the sergeant and Mr. Kelly. Sh'd go back hum easier for it."

"Kelly is first sergeant," stated Thurstane, "and Meyer is
quartermaster-sergeant, with a good chance of being quartermaster. He is
capable of it and deserves it. He ought to have been promoted years ago
for his gallantry and services during the war. I hope every day to hear
that he has got his commission as lieutenant."

"Wal, God bless 'em, 'n' God bless the hull army!" said Glover, so
gratified that he felt pious. "An' now, good-by. Got to be movin'."

"Stay over night with us," urged Thurstane. "Stay a week. Stay as long as
you will."

"Do," begged Clara. "You can go geologizing with my husband. You can start
Sweeny on his farm."

"Och, he's a thousin' times welkim," put in Sweeny, "though I'm afeard av
him. He'd tache the cattle to trade their skins wid ache other, an slather
me wid lies till I wouldn't know which was the baste an' which was
Sweeny."

Glover grinned with an air of being flattered, but replied, "Like to stay
first rate, but can't work it. Passage engaged for to-morrow mornin'."

"Indeed!" exclaimed Aunt Maria, agreeably surprised by an idea.

And the result was that she went to New York under the care of Captain
Glover.

As for Clara and Thurstane, they are surely in a state which ought to
satisfy their friends, and we will therefore say no more of them.

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