med she, her fair blue eyes dilating with astonishment.

"The socks inspired me with courage and fortitude," replied Tom, in exact
accordance with the programme he had laid down for the occasion. "I am
sure the thought of her who knit them, the beautiful letter, and the more
beautiful photograph, enabled me to do that which won my promotion."

"Well, I declare!" shouted Lilian, in a kind of silvery scream.

Bravo, Tom! you are getting along swimmingly. And he said sundry other
smart things which we have not room to record. He stayed half an hour, and
Lilian begged him to call again, and see her grandmother, who was out of
town that day. Of course he promised to come, promised to bring his
photograph, promised to write to her when he returned to the army--and I
don't know what he did not promise, and I hardly think he knew himself.

But the brief dream ended, and Tom went home to Pinchbrook, after he had
sat for his picture. The careless fellow left Lilian's photograph on the
table in his chamber a few days after, and his mother wanted to know whose
it was; and the whole story came out, and Tom was laughed at, and Jenny
made fun of him, and Captain Barney told him he was a match for the finest
girl in the country. The lieutenant blushed like a boy, but rather enjoyed
the whole thing.

A sad day came at last, and Tom went back to the army. He went full of
hope, and the blessing of the loved ones went with him. He was received
with enthusiasm by his old companions in arms, and Hapgood--then a
sergeant--still declared that he would be a brigadier in due time,--or, if
he was not, he ought to be. His subsequent career, if not always as
fortunate as that portion which we have recorded, was unstained by
cowardice or vice.

FINIS.

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