"No," he gaily replied, "oh, no, boys!" But his words went on and became something much like what they craved. As he ceased came the silent, ungreeted landing. Promptly followed the dingy train's short run up the shore of the New Canal, and then its stop athwart St. Charles Street, under no roof, amid no throng, without one huzza or cry of welcome, and the prompt dispersal of the outwardly burdenless wanderers, in small knots afoot, up-town, down-town, many of them trying to say over again those last words from the chief hero of their four years' trial by fire. The effort was but effort, no full text has come down; but their drift seems to have been that, though disarmed, unliveried, and disbanded, they could remain true soldiers: That the perfect soldier loves peace, loathes war: That no man can be such who cannot, whether alone or among thousands of his fellows, strive, suffer and wait with magnanimous patience, stake life and fortune, and, in extremity, fight like a whirlwind, for the victories of peace: That every setting sun will rise again _if it is a true sun:_ That good-night was not good-by: and that, as for their old nickname, no one can ever be a whole true ladies' man whose _aim_ is not at some title far above and beyond it--which last he said not of himself, but in behalf and by request of the mother of the guns they had gone out with and of the furled but unsullied banner they had brought home. THE END. OTHER BOOKS BY MR. CABLE * * * * * THE CAVALIER WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY 12mo, $1.50 "The scene of the American War of North and South is different ground from the old Creole life that Mr. Cable has painted so deliciously, but the touch of the true artist is equally manifest in the careful selection of material, and in the due subordination of the events of that terrible struggle to the progress of a love-story that is altogether delightful."--_The London Literary World._ "In all the stories of war there have been few descriptions of its dangers and destruction, its contrasted demoralizing and inspiring influences equal to these."--_San Francisco Argonaut._ * * * * * BYLOW HILL WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY F.C. YOHN 12mo, $1.25 "I know of no one fitter to stand in the place next Hawthorne's."--_The Atlantic Monthly._ "An atmosphere that only a great artist can produce."--_Literature (London)._ * * * * * JOHN MARCH SOUTHERNER 12mo, $1.50 "The most careful and thorough going study of the reconstruction period in the South which has yet been offered in the world of fiction."--_The Outlook._ "In many respects Mr. Cable's finest work."--_Boston Advertiser._ OTHER BOOKS BY MR. CABLE * * * * * THE GRANDISSIMES A STORY OF CREOLE LIFE 12mo, $1.50