I met him in Frankfort, where he had come from the Northern camp in Garrard County, but I think he left for the East before I did.
The Northern forces hold the railways leading out of Kentucky and he's probably in Washington now." Jarvis lighted his pipe and puffed a while in silence.

At length he drew the stem from his mouth, blew a ring of smoke upward and said in a tone of conviction: "It does beat the Dutch how things come about!" Harry looked questioningly at him.
"I mean your arrivin' here, bein' who you are, an' your meetin' old Aunt Suse, bein' who she is, an' that cousin of yours, Dick Mason, didn't you say was his name, bein' who he is, goin' off to the North." They sat on the porch later than the custom of the mountaineers, and the beauty of the place deepened.

The moon poured a vast flood of misty, silver light over the little valley, hemmed in by its high mountains, and Harry was so affected by the silence and peace that he had no feeling of anger toward anybody, not even toward Bill Skelly, who had tried to kill him..