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CHAPTER III
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The reveille at Fort Redwood had been supplemented full five minutes by the voice of Lieutenant1 George Calvert's servant, before that young officer struggled from his bed. His head was splitting, his tongue and lips were dry and feverish2, his bloodshot eyes were shrinking from the insufferable light of the day, his mind a confused medley4 of the past night and the present morning, of cards and wild revelry, and the vision of a reproachfully trim orderly standing5 at his door with reports and orders which he now held composedly in his hand. For Lieutenant Calvert had been enjoying a symposium6 variously known as "Stag Feed" and "A Wild Stormy Night" with several of his brother officers, and a sickening conviction that it was not the first or the last time he had indulged in these festivities. At that moment he loathed7 himself, and then after the usual derelict fashion cursed the fate that had sent him, after graduating, to a frontier garrison8—the dull monotony of whose duties made the Border horse-play of dissipation a relief. Already he had reached the miserable9 point of envying the veteran capacities of his superiors and equals. "If I could drink like Kirby or Crowninshield, or if there was any other cursed thing a man could do in this hole," he had wretchedly repeated to himself, after each misspent occasion, and yet already he was looking forward to them as part of a 'sub's' duty and worthy10 his emulation11. Already the dream of social recreation fostered by West Point had been rudely
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