"Keep colors. Starting.
"Shijiro Arisuga."
Presently (it seemed years, but it was only a little while) the time was come, and Hoshiko cut her hair, rubbed her face each morning with a rough brush, put on Arisuga's uniform, pinned his medal over her heart, and sent her last cable:—
"Keep colors. Aboard.
"Shijiro Arisuga."
And so it was that the morning the Imperial Guards started for the Yalu, Shijiro Arisuga, though dead in America, answered to his name at Sendai.
But how that was accomplished, I must stop my story to tell.