And so we left him, and my eyes were fixed, as we rowed back up the river, and the village with its natives was lost to view, on the rough-hewn cross that seemed to blaze with a peculiar glory all its own, a shining standard for one honorably dead on the field of gratitude.
Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the December 1, 1913 issue of The Popular Magazine.
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