I wonder you recognize me in these rags." "Well, I don't suppose I should," he exclaimed, "only you happened to be pointed out to me specially that evening.

It was just after your duel with Major Gillette of ours.

Between us, I don't mind admitting I was glad you punctured that fellow--it saved me the trouble." "Perhaps if you gentlemen are through with reminiscences," broke in the girl quietly, "Captain Le Gaire might present me to his new friend." "But I thought you knew him already!" She laughed lightly, her eyes aglow with merriment.
"Oh, no, indeed! It is all a most wonderful mix-up." "Then it will be a pleasure for me to bring order out of confusion--Miss Hardy, Major Atherton of General Pemberton's staff." "Atherton!" she gasped.

"I--I thought your name was Galesworth." "Hardy!" I retorted, simulating equal surprise, "and I supposed your name to be Gray." Le Gaire looked at us, vastly amused, all his former jealousy and suspicion instantly dissipated by this evidence of misunderstanding.
"You certainly must have had a merry night of it, you two--trying to outlie each other, and with honors about even.

However, the tangle is straightened out now, and we must be on our way.