“And look that you hint as much to the idle young bucks hereabouts — say it to some of your Westchester squirrel hunters — — ” He laid his hand on the landlord’s shoulder. “There’s a good fellow,” he added, with that youthful and winning smile which so often carried home with it his reckless will — where women were concerned — “we’re down from Albany and we wish the Bedford folk to know it. And if the gallant fellows hereabout desire a taste of true glory — the genuine article — why, send them to me, landlord — Thomas Boyd, of Derry, Pennsylvania, lieutenant, 6th company of Morgan’s — or to my comrade here, Mr. Loskiel, ensign in the same corps.”

He clapped the man heartily on the shoulder and stood