I can only say that we will try to prove ourselves not unworthy guardians of these flags you have given us." He bowed, turned to go, swung around sharply and looked at his wife.
"Good-bye, my darling," he said under his breath; and the nest moment he was in the saddle.
All the rest that Ailsa recollected distinctly was the deafening outcrash of military music, the sustained cheering, the clatter of hoofs, the moving column of red and gold--and Celia, standing there under the July sun, her daughters' hands in hers.
So the 3rd Zouaves marched gaily away under their new silk flags to their transport at Pier No.

3, North River.

But the next day another regiment received its colours and went, and every day or so more regiments departed with their brand-new colours; and after a little only friends and relatives remembered the 3rd Zouaves, and what was their colonel's name.
By the middle of July the transformation of the metropolis from a city into a vast military carnival was complete.

Gaudy uniforms were no longer the exception; a madness for fantastic brilliancy seized the people; soldiers in all kinds of colours and all kinds of dress filled the streets.

Hotels, shops, ferry-boats, stages, cars, swarmed with undisciplined troops of all arms of the service, clad in every sort of extravagant uniforms.