"To bed, Harry! To bed! Your sleep on the train was brief and you need more! So do I!" Harry undressed quickly, and put himself under the covers, and the colonel also retired, although somewhat more leisurely.

The boy could not sleep for some time.

One vision was present in his mind, that of Charleston, the famous city to which they were going.

The effect of Colonel Talbot's ominous words had worn off.

He would soon see the city which had been so long a leader in Southern thought and action, and he would see, too, the men who had so boldly taken matters in their own hands.