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ful and kindly services. He had never
once thought of his own fatigue, nor re-
laxed his attentions to the patient.
Day and night he had been a faithful
sentinel, until the doctor had said all
danger was past and Howard Grant
would live. Then Lee’s lips had been
tremulous, and his eyes blurred with
thankful tears.

Howard Grant was manly and gener-
ous, and to such a nature as his it was
not easy to forget his comrade’s kind-
ness, even though the accident of their
names and birthplaces had made them
leaders of opposing factions. But neither
the patriotic “Rip-Raps” nor the unre-
constructed “ Magruders ” would tolerate
any softening or relenting on the part of
their commanders. They required them
to be as stern and inflexible as old Ro.
mans,