With a second leap he was on the waiting horse and calmly galloped through the camp before the guards discovered the incident.
He found his way to General Hood’s headquarters in the Sierra Nevadas and reported for duty.
“Keep your uniform!” Hood laughed. “We’ll need it for scout work.”
“Sure I’ll keep it,” the preacher snapped—“and use it myself, sir! I’ll show them that my name’s Pike—not Piker!”
The General despatched him to the Coast on an important and dangerous mission.
CHAPTER XLI
VIRGINIA HOLLAND’S conversion to the open advocacy of the principles of monarchy and aristocracy was Waldron’s first sensation in the campaign in which he began to destroy the American conception of liberty.
Her confession of faith was a liberal outline of the ideals which the Governor-General had proclaimed in his library. Waldron was elated at his complete triumph.
Her brief statement and appeal to the women of America to support her movement of loyalty he ordered printed in every newspaper in the country. It duly appeared on the front pages, accompanied by a portrait of the distinguished young convert.
Her first year’s engagements in organizing the Woman’s Imperial Legion of Honor covered the principal cities of every state.