But Dick's quick eyes saw in the dusk of the room behind her a girl of seventeen or eighteen.
"What do you want ?" asked the woman in a tone of ice.

"I see that you are Yankee soldiers, and if you intend to rob the house there is no one here to oppose you.

Its sole occupants are myself, my granddaughter, and two colored women, our servants.

But I tell you, before you begin, that all our silver has been shipped to Nashville." Colonel Winchester flushed a deep crimson, and bit his lips savagely.
"Madame," he said, "we are not robbers and plunderers.

These are regular soldiers belonging to General Grant's army." "Does it make any difference?
Your armies come to ravage and destroy the South." Colonel Winchester flushed again but, remembering his self-control, he said politely: "Madame, I hope that our actions will prove to you that we have been maligned.