Dick, anxious not to offend his future commander, smiled sheepishly, and said:

I did not particularly like my future commander's outside.

The silence of the democratic government was keeping the country in complete ignorance of their future commanders.

"Well, Christy, I think you are the most audacious young fellow I ever met," added the future commander of the Bronx.

"And what sort of man is the captain?" I asked somewhat eagerly, anxious to know the character of my future commander.

"He was a stranger," says the Judge, "to the officers and men, and they flocked about him to obtain a sight of their future commander.