San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-10

z captains, aids on his stan; and PAIR or
orderlies, as mechanical as though made
to order. brought mp the rear, keeping
distance as they would have kept the
commandments, were the latter in reg
nlations," and with that nerveless right
hand drop that is the orderly's creed.
Time hai changed the general little,
save TO Oh out lines of face and figure
am ESsV,slly TO bronze cheek and hands
since tue day nj Rose villa 4 full yell
low beSsrl covered the lower face; but
the Ssa,Ae l.G>,gray eyes smiled out rs
fCssus ~, ryUe under " brow as fair rs
the ~ ca>sls's. when he lifted ms light
fOraSgS can,
SIX wears had passed since Bennie
StaadiSa went to her sacriice-years full
of bitter loss to brave endeavor. yet IL
lunsi by such heroism and grandeur Of
resource as made the whole world Won
der. For the brothers war was over,
and only the unhealed wounds it had
made. and the sorrows thick in its desc
lating track, told how cruel it had been.
At the first actual hostilities our two
Young soldiers had promptly made their
choice The Creole blood Of Adrien La
tour, heated by what he felt to be
wrongs to his people, had leaped to stand
foremost with them, while habits of
thought and allegiance to traditions OF
his race held Dale Everett under the old
flag The first gun at Sumter stopped
all argument Of principle between the
friends. and sent Adrien to lay his sword
at the feet of the government that gave it.
"You are a soldier Of the nation-not
of any state" Dale had often argued. to
which he ever answered.
IL recognize no nation, onlya fedora
ton of separate sovereignities, which
may be broken at will ! am a son of
Louisiana--not of the Washington gov
eminent"
YES" Everett would urge, but that
government gave You the training you
now would use against it. That is not
honest: the epaulets you wear sealed
your bond to the government"
st educated me to be a Dldier-not q
hireling, q matricide! Louisiana is my
mother, as Massachusetts, is yours. |
can no more stay than you could go,
Dale! You would respect me less did l
listen to you"
And the descendant Of the Puritans
was perforce silent. The boom of that
fateful first gun in Charleston harbor
echoed to the confines of the land, and
its echo was nowhere heavier than in the
brain of the two friends. But they part
ed, as they had lived, brothers in heart.
Everett had first served with his own
corps on the Potomac, but his soldierly
instinct chafed at maps and earthworks.
He transferred to the command of a cav
airy troop; good service, and plenty OF
it, in the west gave him rapid promo
ton. and the surrender saw him the no
ted commander of perhaps the most no
ted cavalry brigade in the service.
More from similarity Of training than
by coincidence, Adrien Latour had had
a like career ON the Confederate side.
Cavalry was his fetch, and his wealth
and family influence quickly raised
picked regiment of young Creoles and
planters soon noted for it's reckless elan
and the dash of its colonel First in the
west, later under the peerless Lee, the
young commander won fame and his
brigade; and. as it CHANGED, on his twen+
ty-fourth birthday the order came that
made him the youngest major general
in either army. Fact. When this novel
was first published hypercriticism scout
ed this statement as sample romance. 1t
is simple history that young cadet left
West Point before graduation, was
made first the adjutant and soon colonel
of a Georgia legion, won his brigade
and fought his way to command Of his
division when he was barely twenty
four. TIE AUTHOR.
But through all those dark and des-
perate days one prayer Of both had been
answered, and the quondam chums had
never met on the :nany fields they fought.
And, when the final crash of the south
ern cause came, the Federal caused care
full inquiry to be made for his friend
! to find that he had dispersed the rem
nant of his command and, refusing TO
surrender, had crossed the frontier into
| Mexico
Arrived in New Orleans only the day
before, Everett had already renewed his
inquiries His perfect mastery of French
and his peculiarly winning address
| thawed even Creole reserve; but he could
only learn that Madame. as all called
LatouFs grandmother, lived alone and
recluse at the old homestead
To the stranger the French market or
Sunday morning is glimpse of pleas
ant pandemoniuIn Vendors cry theil
wares in the high pitched but rarely
nasal patois Of many nationalities-th,
Sicilian fisherman, the Spanish fruiterer