ed
his head, as before some sacred thing, at the whisper of the child who
had died for him. The memories of both went back to a place in a desert
land where the folds of the Tricolor drooped over one little grave
turned westward toward the shores of France--a grave made where the
beat of drum, and the sound of moving squadrons, and the ring of the
trumpet-call, and the noise of the assembling battalions could be
heard by night and day; a grave where the troops, as they passed it by,
saluted and lowered their arms in tender reverence, in faithful, unasked
homage, because beneath the Flag they honored there was carved in the
white stone one name that spoke to every heart within the army she had
loved, one name on which the Arab sun streamed as with a martyr's glory:

"CIGARETTE,

"ENFANT DE L'ARMEE, SOLDAT DE LA FRANCE."

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