Excerpt from The Deserters He blinked around the apartment. It was a typical garrison sitting-room, such as may be found repeated in officers' quarters over and over again all the way from Governor's Island to the Pacific coast. Domestic comfort and rough-and-ready militarism curiously mixed. Portraits of famous soldiers and bat tle scenes on the walls; a sword, with its belt, standing in a corner; books with warlike titles in an old-fashioned bookcase; well-worn up holstered walnut furniture, which had passed from one occupant to another for generations. Mingled with these relics of a by-gone time, newer articles bearing the impress of personal association - a white enameled desk, a gilt chair, embroidered cushions, photographs, and and so forth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.