se his family is looking out for him?" said Cleary.

"His mother visits him pretty regularly, and his father comes
sometimes," said the doctor, "but I think his wife has only been here
twice. And she's living at East Point, too, only an hour or two away.
She's a born flirt, and I think she's tired of him. I'm told that
one of this year's graduates there, a fellow named Saunders, is paying
attention to her, and when the poor captain dies, I doubt if she
remains long a widow."

[Illustration: HARMLESS
"HE SITS LIKE THAT FOR HOURS"]

"Then I suppose there is nothing I can do for the dear old chap?" asked
Cleary, with tears in his eyes, as he took his leave of the doctor at
the door of the building.

"Nothing at all, my dear sir. He has everything he wants, and in fact
he wants nothing but his lead soldiers. He won't even let us give him a
new set of them. And he has all the liberty he wants on the grounds
here, and he can walk or even take a drive if he wishes to, for he is
perfectly harmless."

"Perfectly harmless!" repeated Cleary to himself, as he got into his
carriage. "What an idea! A perfectly harmless soldier!"

THE END

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Transcriber's Notes
For consistency the following changes have been made.

Page 3 firearms changed to fire-arms
10 field marshal changed to field-marshal
134 got here? changed to got here?"
168 out on at once on changed to out at once on
202 exclamed changed to exclaimed
202 out of it? changed to out of it.
219 you along.' changed to you along."
237 "'Im a changed to 'I'm a
273 exclamed changed to exclaimed
295 bomb-shells changed to bombshells
349 "'He stuck changed to 'He stuck
357 "and I!" And I!" changed to "And I!" "And I!"
382 denommination changed to denomination

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