Then it was a long ride through the snow to your hospitable home here, my good cousin, Colonel Kenton.

But I had minute directions, and no one noticed the stranger who came so quietly around the town, and then entered your house." Harry said nothing but watched him intently.

Bertrand spoke with a rapid lightness and grace and an abundance of gesture, to which he was not used in Kentucky.

He ate plentifully, and, although his manners were delicate, Harry felt to an increasing degree his foreign aspect and spirit.

He did not wonder at it when he learned later that Bertrand, besides being chiefly of French blood, had also been educated in Paris.
"Was there much enthusiasm in South Carolina when the state seceded, Raymond ?" asked Colonel Kenton.
"I saw the greatest joy and confidence everywhere," he replied, the color flaming through his olive face.