continued on to my bush-hut, the Indians following.

Muffled drums of a regiment were passing, and an escort with reversed arms, to bury poor Kimball, Captain in Colonel Cilly’s command, shot this morning through the heart by the accidental discharge of a musket in the careless hands of one of his own men.

We stood at salute while the slow cortege passed.

Said Boyd thoughtfully:

“Well, Kimball’s done with all earthly worries. There are those who might envy him.”

“You are not one,” I said bluntly.

“I? No. I have not yet played hard enough in the jolly blind man’s buff — which others call the game of life. I wear the bandage still, and still my hands clutch at the empty air, and in my ears the world’s