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when Lee yielded the palm of victory at
last to his magnanimous foe?

Lee Morris and Howard Grant had
once been excellent friends. Howard
was not a robust lad, and had been sent
to Fortress Monroe from Boston because
the New England winters were too severe
for him. He had been very ill at first,
and I am sorry to say that some of the
boys in the military academy had spoken
rather contemptuously of him because he
was weaker than they. Lee Morris was
not one of them. When young Grant
lay tossing upon his sick bed, wasted
with lung fever and raving with delirium,
Lee had constituted himself head nurse,
and never left the sick room. He had
been as tender as a woman, had
smoothed the sick boy’s pillow, moist-
ened his parched lips, administered his

medicines, and had done a thousand use-
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