log quarters, and then led the Sagamore inside.

“Is this our Moses?” whispered the young ensign in my ear. “Egad, Loskiel, he looks a treacherous devil, in his paint, to lead us to the promised land.”

“He is staunch, I think,” said I. “But for heaven’s sake, Benny, are we to sleep in filthy barracks in July?”

“Not you, I hear,” he said, laughing, “ — — though they’re clean enough, by the way! But the Major’s orders were to build a hut for you and this pretty and fragrant aborigine down by the river, and lodge him there under your eye and nose and rifle. I admit very freely, Loskiel, no man in Morgan’s envies you your bed-fellow!” And he whisked his nose with a scented handkerchief.