When the twilight came, he left.
End of Book One.
BOOK TWO
THE BREAK
IN THE CLAY
BOOK TWO
THE BREAK IN THE CLAY
I.
Trevelyan's face was the first that greeted Stewart at his journey's end.
Trevelyan had been in the wildest spirits for days before Stewart's arrival, and his fellow officers spoke about the sudden change in him. For the first time in the year that Trevelyan had served with them, he became less moody and unsociable and whimsical, and they grew to think less critically of one who had never been a favorite. It was probably only the Colonel, remembering the stock from whence he sprang, who took the trouble to look beneath the inertia.
"The boy will come around all right in time—he's only a bit homesick and strange to the new life now. When there's an opportunity for fighting he'll show himself up true," he would say. "Why, his father at Inkerman—"