And The Captain CHAPTER I HER BOY ONLY two members of the battery were outside the train, Captain Winthrop and Private Victor Hardy. The "boys" had marched through the long wide streets of the midwestern town, packed with a black, swaying, cheering mass of their fellow citizens, while the bands blared Marching through Georgia and the Star-Spangled Banner. They had gathered be fore the club house of the town and had heard the men whom they had been reared to respect praise them and promise to guard their families, a promise loyally kept, by the way; and mentioned here because such promises are not always loyally kept. Now, all were aboard the cars-or as they liked to phrase it entrained, except only the Captain and Private Hardy. The Captain remained on the station platform the better to be sure every one of his men was safe on the train. The private who had been detailed on special duty had just reported. Beside each of the two soldiers |