uld not have heeded it in another,'
he had said, 'but I never thought Harry Warrington would have joined
against me.'

"I had to wait on him for the word that night, and found him alone at
his table. 'Can your Excellency give me five minutes' time?' I said,
with my heart in my mouth. 'Yes, surely, sir,' says he, pointing to the
other chair. 'Will you please to be seated?'

"'It used not always to be Sir and Colonel Warrington, between me and
your Excellency,' I said.

"He said, calmly, 'The times are altered.'

"'Et nos mutamur in illis,' says I. 'Times and people are both changed.'

"'You had some business with me?' he asked.

"'Am I speaking to the Commander-in-Chief or to my old friend?' I asked.

"He looked at me gravely. 'Well,--to both, sir,' he said. 'Pray sit,
Harry.'

"'If to General Washington, I tell his Excellency that I, and many
officers of this army, are not well pleased to see a boy of twenty made
a major-general over us, because he is a Marquis, and because he can't
speak the English language. If I speak to my old friend, I have to say
that he has shown me very little of trust or friendship for the last
few weeks; and that I have no desire to sit at your table, and have
impertinent remarks made by others there, of the way in which his
Excellency turns his back on me.'

"'Which charge shall I take first, Harry?' he asked, turning his chair
away from the table, and crossing his legs as if ready for a talk. 'You
are jealous, as I gather, about the Marquis?'

"'Jealous, sir!' says I. 'An aide-de-camp of Mr. Wolfe is not jealous of
a Jack-a-dandy who, five years ago, was being whipped at school!'

"'You yourself declined higher rank than that which you hold,' says the
Chief, turning a little red.

"'But I never bargained to have a macaroni Marquis to command me!' I
cried. 'I will not, for one, carry the young gentleman's orders; and
since Congress and your Excellency chooses to take your generals out
of the nursery, I shall humbly ask leave to resign, and retire to my
plantation.'

"'Do, Harry; that is true friendship!' says the Chief, with a gentleness
that surprised me. 'Now that your old friend is in a difficulty, 'tis
surely the best time to leave him.'

"'Sir!' says I.

"'Do as so many of the rest are doing, Mr. Warrington. Et tu, Brute,
as the play says. Well, well, Harry! I did not think it of you; but, at
least, you are in the fashion.'

"'You asked which charge you should take f