"I take it that many other people are now on their way to this same city of Charleston, which since the secession of South Carolina has become the most famous in the Union." "I shall be glad if you will take me with you," said Harry.

"I know little of Charleston and the lower South, and I need company." "Then we will go to a hotel," said Colonel Talbot.

"On a journey like this two together are better than one alone.

I know Nashville fairly well, and while it is of the undoubted South, it will be best for us, while we are here, to keep quiet tongues in our heads.

We cannot get a train out of the city until the afternoon." They were now in the station and everybody was going out.