It stirred to action.

His cousin's emotions were evidently much like his own.
"Harry," said Dick, "I never thought that Kentucky would be fighting against Kentucky, that Pendleton would be fighting against Pendleton." Harry was about to reply when his attention was attracted by a heavy footstep.

A third person had entered the chamber of the House, and he stood for a while in the aisle, looking curiously about him.

Harry saw the man before the stranger saw him and with an instinctive shudder he recognized Bill Skelly.

There he stood, huge, black, hairy, and lowering, two heavy pistols shown openly in his belt.
The boys were sitting low in the desks and it was a little while before Skelly noticed them.