Harry, thrusting his head from the window, looked eagerly ahead at the city rising on its hills.

Then a shade smaller than Charleston, it, too, was a famous place in the South, and it was full of great associations.

Harry, like all the educated boys of the South, honored and admired its public men.

They were mighty names to him.

He was about to tread streets that had been trod by the famous Jefferson, by Madison, Monroe, Randolph of Roanoke, and many others.