Like Colonel Leonidas Talbot he felt now that this was going to be a great war, wide in its sweep.
Harry returned to his hotel, very thoughtful.

The second parting with his cousin, who had been his playmate all his life, was painful, and he realized that while he was wondering when and where they would meet again it might never occur at all.

He found his father and his friends holding a close conference in his room at the hotel.

Senator Culver, Mr.Bracken, Gardner, the editor, and others yet higher in the councils of the Confederacy, were there.

Bertrand sat in a corner, saying little, but watching everything with ardent, burning eyes.
Letters had come from the chief Southern leaders.