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To-day from the whole neighbourhood the Lithuanian populace had

gathered before sunrise around the chapel, as if to hear some new

marvel proclaimed. This gathering was due in part to the piety of

the folk and in part to curiosity; for to-day at Soplicowo the

generals were to attend service, those famous captains of our

legions, whose names the folk knew and honoured as those of

patron saints; all whose wanderings, cam-paigns, and battles were

the people's gospel throughout Lithuania.

Now some officers and a throng of soldiers arrived. The folk

surrounded them and gazed upon them, and they could hardly

believe their eyes when they beheld their fellow-countrymen

wearing uniforms, and carrying arms-free, and speaking the Polish

language!