He seemed strange and foreign to Harry, and yet he liked him.
"And this is my young cousin, the one who is likely to be so zealous for our cause," he said, smiling at Harry with flashing black eyes.

"You are a stalwart lad.

They grow bigger and stronger here than on our warm Carolina coast." "Raymond arrived only three hours ago," said Colonel Kenton in explanation.

"He came directly from Charleston, leaving only three hours after the resolution in favor of secession was adopted." "And a rough journey it was," said Bertrand vivaciously.

"I was rattled and shaken by the trains, and I made some of the connections by horseback over the wild hills.