High Hearts
“General Stuart upbraided him for it. “I’ve half a mind to bust you back to major, but that would make you too happy. You’ll have to suffer as a colonel.” He decried Mars’s lack of ambition, for surely he could make brigadier, too.
Mars argued that it was enough to be a colonel. He learned more in the field than he’d ever learned in staff meetings where one was in danger of death by hemorrhoids.
Stuart laughed. He admired Mars ever since they were at West Point together. Mars was in the graduating class when Stuart was a plebe. Mars’s good looks, horsemanship, and open manner made him the idol of everyone. It was difficult for Stuart, an ambitious man, to understand that Mars’s ambitions rested elsewhere. Perhaps if Mars were a Presbyterian instead of an Episcopalian, he’d snap into shape.
Mars was relieved that Stuart hadn’t found out about the sacks of stolen grain.
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