It's the people of the border, whether North or South, who pay the biggest price.

We risk our lives, but you risk your lives also, and everything else, too." Dick wrapped himself in a heavy blanket, pillowed his head on a log before one of the fires and dozed a while.

His nerves had been tried too hard to permit of easy sleep.

He awoke now and then and over a wide area saw the sinking fires and the moving forms of men.

He felt that a sense of uneasiness pervaded the officers.