The surgeon found three bullets in his body.
Nobody in the battery ever remembered after that, that Si Tucker had once been a coward.
After all, it is perhaps mainly a question of nerves.
WAR AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT
DOCTOR TOWNS was a wealthy gentleman in Mississippi.
For a good many years he had employed Miss R—— of Massachusetts as governess for his daughters. She had lived all these years as an honored member of his family, with every social opportunity that Mississippi society afforded.
At last the two girls outgrew the need of a governess. One of them was sent abroad to study art at Nuremberg. The other got married.
Upon the occurrence of this event Doctor Towns went to the young lady, Miss R——, and suggested that as her services had been of incalculable value to his daughters he was anxious to secure for her, now that they no longer needed her, an equally good situation in some other gentleman’s family.
He explained that he had already written to a friend in Alabama strongly recommending her, and that his friend desired her to come on at once.
Apparently this pleased Miss R—— very greatly. She packed her trunks that night with the aid of the colored maid who had been assigned to her service. She was to leave in the morning.