Lack o' exercise an' fresh air, an' elbow room hev done fur poor Sol Hyde
at last. I'm pinin' away. Tell Henry when he comes back, ef he ever does,
that I fell into a decline. I done my best to b'ar up, but my best wuzn't
good enough."
"Now you shut up, Sol Hyde," said Jim Hart, "or you'll hev me down real
sick with your foolish talk, ez I jest can't stand it."
They stopped because at that moment there came unto them Lieutenant Diego
Bernal, fresh, chipper, with a few additional flounces and ruffles added
to his jaunty uniform, and a smile upon his dark, pleasant face.
"Ah, my gallant four, who were once my gallant five," he said as he
stroked his little mustache, "I have news for you, important news. You are
even to be summoned again to the presence of His Excellency, Bernardo
Galvez, the Governor General of Louisiana, and that summons is immediate.
I have an impression, though my impressions are usually false and my
memory always weak, that the large youth, the strong youth, the splendid
youth, surnamed the Ware, who was released for the time at the
intercession of Senor Pollock, has been achieving something. This, I
think, is the reason of the sudden call to the audience with His
Excellency."
Paul was all life at once.
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