Hamilton jumped at the thought, and forthwith drew up a note which he sent out with a white flag.

Never before in all his military career had he been so comforted by a sudden cessation of fighting.

His soul would grovel in spite of him.

Alice's cold face now had Beverley's beside it in his field of inner vision--a double assurance of impending doom, it seemed to him.
There was short delay in the arrival of Colonel Clark's reply, hastily scrawled on a bit of soiled paper.

The request for a truce was flatly refused; but the note closed thus: "If Mr.Hamilton is Desirous of a Conferance with Col.