"Private Overton to B Company. Private Terry to C Company."
From an inner room stepped out a gray-haired officer, wearing on his shoulder-straps the silver eagles of a colonel. This must be Colonel North, the Thirty-fourth's K. O. Both recruits immediately came to the salute again.
"These are the young men I wanted to see, are they not, Wright?" asked the colonel.
"They are, sir," replied the adjutant, rising.
"Major Silsbee!" called the colonel, looking over one shoulder.
That officer entered, also from the inner room, and again the recruits saluted.
"Major," went on the colonel, "these are the young men I told you about, who are joining your battalion."
Major Silsbee looked them over keenly, even if briefly.
"They look the part, Colonel," was the major's comment.