Each day she mounted a Calvary.

I could kiss the hem of that woman's gown, in reverence for her." "So could I," said Colonel Fortescue.
"Of course," continued Broussard, "I told her and wrote her that neither she nor her child should ever suffer.

I have sent her money--all that was needed, as I have something besides my pay." The Colonel, recalling the motors, the oriental rugs, the grand piano, and other articles _de luxe_, which Broussard had once possessed, thought Broussard had a trifle too much beside his pay.
"I don't think she has had much use for money since her husband deserted," said Colonel Fortescue.

"She has been constantly ill.

My wife and daughter and the other ladies at the post have done everything possible for her, and Sergeant McGillicuddy took the boy.