The words, "men higher in rank than I," whipped his blood.
Colonel Kenton led through the darkness to a deep and broad ravine, into which they descended.

The sides and bottom of this ravine were clothed in bushes, and they grew thick on the edges above.

It was much darker here, but Dick presently caught ahead of him the flicker of the first light that he had seen in the Southern army.
The boy's heart began to beat fast and hard.

All the omens foretold that he was about to witness something that he could never by any possibility forget.

They came nearer to the flickering light, and he made out seated figures around it.