Five years later Sergeant Redmond A. Carter passed a successful examination for a second lieutenantcy in the army, and was commissioned in the artillery under his proper name, Raymond J. Corser.
Edward Maloney, who excelled in physical rather than intellectual attainments, continued in the service, becoming at the time of his second enlistment first sergeant of Captain Bartlett's company.
OAKLEIGH
BY ELLEN DOUGLAS DELAND.
CHAPTER XIII.
During these early months of the year a change had come over Miss Betsey Trinkett's life. Silas Green had died.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin went to Wayborough for the funeral, and found Miss Betsey quite broken.
"To think that the day was fixed at last," she said, "and he died only the week before. Well, well, it does seem passing queer, after all these years. It doesn't do to put a thing off too long. And yet, perhaps, it's all for the best, for if I'd given up and gone down there to live, I should have had nothing now to look at but the Soldiers' Monument, and I'd have felt real lonesome without the Merrimac."