[-8-] There was not only this to trouble Caesar greatly but also the fact that in the disputes which had been inaugurated between the ex-soldiers and the senators as well as the rest of the multitude that possessed lands,and these proved very numerous because the contestants were struggling for the greatest interests,he could not attach himself to either side without danger.

Meantime the ex-soldiers made an open demonstration, because he was so far separated from them, and he began to fear that if they got a leader they might do some damage.

The ex-soldier looked around, sobered abruptly.

There was something grim in the ex-soldier's face and in the set of his gross lips as the two came up, but the aura of the girl prevented Peter from paying much attention to it.

The ex-soldier looked the worse for wear after his jail sentence.

" "You kin ca'y 'em ef you don' keep 'em hid," explained the ex-soldier in a wooden voice.

All the physiological arguments upon which Peter could base an argument were far beyond the ex-soldier's comprehension.

Peter could vision the formidable ex-soldier lying dead in Jonesboro jail, with his little congressional medal on his breast.

But so vast a fund for distribution attracted the inevitable horde of small lawyers and pension agents, who swelled the lists with multitudes of sham veterans and able-bodied "cripples," until many eminent ex-soldiers cried out for a purgation of that which should be a list of honor.

Now, as at least two of the union men who did the shooting were ex-soldiers, it appears that the tragedy must have resulted from something more than a mere quarrel between loggers and soldiers.

He is an ex-soldier himself.

He wore a khaki army coat above stagged overalls of a slightly darker shade,Wesley Everest, the ex-soldier who was shortly to be mutilated and lynched by the mob.

But for the promptness and pluck of several Atlanta policemen these Negro ex-soldiers would have done serious mischief at the depot.

Ex-soldiers had preference over settlers, and could buy the goods at Government rates, plus a small cost of transportation to the Pacific coast.

He was an ex-soldier, of course: one of those under-sized Cockneys with the Whitechapel pallor overlying a pugnacious instinct, who make such astonishing fighting-men in the intervals between sulking and a sort of half-affectionate abuse of everything in sight.

The Veterans Association is giving a Special Entertainment at the Alhambra on Sunday afternoon, December 30th, on behalf of their Imperial Memorial Fund which is being raised to expand the Veterans Club into an adequate Institution for the comfort of ex-sailors and ex-soldiers, and to provide an Imperial Memorial for those who have given their lives in the War.

"Businesses suitable for ex-soldiers: generals and others; taking £40 wkly, price £35. Call or stamp.

[Illustration: Ex-Soldier (to stout passenger).

How the devil could you have the heart to reject that crippled ex-soldier?

And you had experienced men discharged to make room for these ex-soldiers.

These ex-soldiers spend too much time fighting their battles over again.

The ex-soldier stopped him and handed him a card.

He was not a robber; he was not an assassin; he was not an officer of police; and what is more notable, seeing he was a Louisianian, he was not a soldier nor even an ex-soldier; and this although, under his clothing, he was encased from head to foot in a complete suit of mail.

The giant Pole flung his whole weight into the crashing blow, and the ex-soldier went down as though struck by a pole-ax.

He's an ex-soldier, a Captain, and he's nuts on the girl.