There are three flags: the national colours, the state flag, and a purple regimental flag lettered in gold: '3d Regt.

N.Y.

Zouaves,' and under it their motto: '_Multorum manibus grande levatur onus_.' I hope it is good Latin, for it is mine.

Is it?
"AILSA PAIGE." To this letter he made no reply, and, after a week, his silence hurt her.
One afternoon toward the middle of May Stephen was announced; and with a sudden sense of foreboding she hastened down to the drawing-room.
"_Oh_!" she cried.

"_You_--Stephen!" But the boy in his zouave uniform was beside himself with excitement and pride, and he embraced her, laughing, and then began to walk up and down the room gesticulating.
"I couldn't stand it any longer, and they let me go.