oud of coming into his own name,
laughed, asked for Clay's scissors, and cut up the rest of his suit. Then
he stuffed into his trunk the other pair which he had intended to take
with him on the hike.

One last story, to show a different side of our Plattsburg activities.
You know we have a cavalry camp here, and a medical department, where
volunteers come exactly as to our infantry regiment. Well, Corder came
back from the medicos lately, where he went to visit a friend, with a
great tale of the mending of a cavalryman's broken jaw by one of the
volunteer surgeons, a Boston dentist. Corder, being professor-like in
appearance, was not detected as an impostor, and stood close at hand in
the ring of doctors who watched the clinic.

"It was done under field conditions," said he, "the operator using only
an alcohol lamp, a small pair of nippers, and about eight inches of
ordinary electric light wire, which happened to be handy. The insulation
was scraped from the cable, and its various fine wires were burned clean
in the flame of the lamp. The rookie was then put on a table in the
company street, and the doctor took a turn with one of the fine wires
around a tooth behind the break, twisting the ends together. The same was
done with a tooth in front of the break; and then in the upper jaw wires
were twisted around teeth above the lower two. An assistant then held the
broken jaw in place, and the doctor twisted tight together the wires from
the lower back tooth and the upper front tooth, and then those from the
upper back tooth and the lower front tooth. He cut off the ends, made all
smooth, and the work was done, all in a very few minutes. The jaw could
not move, and was bound to heal perfectly. The doctors all said they
never had seen anything so simple or so clever."

We thought the same; Clay, as a budding doctor, was envious of Corder for
having seen it. "Too bad for the chap to lose the hike," said Bannister.

"He won't lose it!" replied Corder. "The fellow can drink, of course. He
can get any liquid, or even a cereal or a stew, around behind his back
teeth, so he's simply going right along with us."

So much for smartness, and for grit!

The showers lasting long enough to spoil conferences, and then the sky
clearing, I went this evening to say good-by to Vera, which I had half
promised to do. David, by the way, to whom a social duty used to be
sacred, called yesterday afternoon, as Knudsen suggested, and was
manfu