"In a minute it will cease and then will come the charge! 'Tis Carrington's way, and a good way! Hark! Listen to it! The signal! Ready, men! Ready! Here they come!" The great cannonade ceased so abruptly that for a few moments the stillness was more awful than the thunder of the guns had been.

The recruits could hear the great pulses in their temples throbbing.
Then the silence was pierced by the shrill notes of a brazen bugle, steadily rising higher and always calling insistently to the men to come.

Then they heard the heavy thud of many men advancing with swiftness and regularity.
The Southern troops were at the earthworks in double rows, and the gunners were at the guns, all eager, all watching intently for what might come out of the smoke.

But the rising breeze suddenly caught the great bank of mists and vapors and whirled the whole aside.

Then Harry saw.