nd received a Major-Generalship, only to find myself
outranked by five others. At Saratoga I was without a command, yet I
succeeded in defeating an army. For that service I was accused of being
drunk by the general in command, who, for his service, received a gold
medal with a vote of thanks from Congress, while I--well, the people
gave me their applause; Congress gave me a horse, but what I prize more
than all,--these sword knots," he took hold of them as he spoke, "a
personal offering from the Commander-in-chief. I gave my all. I received
a few empty honors and the ingratitude of a jealous people."

He paused.

"General," began Marjorie, "you know the people still worship you and
they do want you for their popular leader."

"I know differently," he snapped back. "I have already petitioned
Congress for a grant of land in western New York, where I intend to lead
the kind of life led by my friend Schuyler in Livingston, or the Van
Renssalaers and other country gentlemen. My ambition now is to be a good
citizen, for I intend never to draw a sword on the American side."

He again grew silent.

Whether he was sincere in his remarks, and his manner of expression
seemingly revealed no other disposition of mind, or was swayed simply by
some unfounded antipathy which caused the image of his aversion to
become a sort of hallucination, Marjorie could not decide. She knew him
to be impulsive and irrepressible, a man who, because of his deficiency
in breadth, scope of intelligence, and strong moral convictions,
invariably formed his opinions in public matter on his personal
feelings. He was a man of moods, admirably suited withal for a command
in the field where bluntness and abruptness of manner could cause him to
rise to an emergency, but wholly unfitted for this reason for a
diplomatic office where the utmost delicacy of tact and nicety of
decision are habitually required.

She knew, moreover, that he ever bore a fierce grudge towards Congress
for the slights which it had put upon him, and that this intense
feeling, together with his indomitable self-will, had brought him into
conflict with the established civil authority. He was Military Governor
of the city and adjacent countryside, yet there existed an Executive
Council of Pennsylvania for the care of the state, and the line of
demarcation between the two powers never had been clearly drawn.
Accordingly there soon arose many occasions for dispute, which a more
even-tem