“Well, I declare!” shouted Lilian, in a kind of silvery scream.

Bravo, Tom! you are getting along swimmingly.  And he said sundry other smart things which we have not room to record.  He stayed half an hour, and Lilian begged him to call again, and see her grandmother, who was out of town that day.  Of course he promised to come, promised to bring his photograph, promised to write to her when he returned to the army—­and I don’t know what he did not promise, and I hardly think he knew himself.

But the brief dream ended, and Tom went home to Pinchbrook, after he had sat for his picture.  The careless fellow left Lilian’s photograph on the table in his chamber a few days after, and his mother wanted to know whose it was; and the whole story came out, and Tom was laughed at, and Jenny made fun of him, and Captain Barney told him he was a match for the finest girl in the country.  The lieutenant blushed like a boy, but rather enjoyed the whole thing.

A sad day came at last, and Tom went back to the army.  He went full of hope, and the blessing of the loved ones went with him.  He was received with enthusiasm by his old companions in arms, and Hapgood—­then a sergeant—­still declared that he would be a brigadier in due time,—­or, if he was not, he ought to be.  His subsequent career, if not always as fortunate as that portion which we have recorded, was unstained by cowardice or vice.

FINIS.

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The Famous Alger Books

By Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Boy’s Writer

A series of books known to all boys; books that are good and wholesome, with enough “ginger” in them to suit the tastes of the younger generation.  The Alger books are not filled with “blood and thunder” stories of a doubtful character, but are healthy and elevating, and parents should see to it that their children become acquainted with the writings of this celebrated writer of boys’ books.  We publish the titles named below: