I'm a mathematician and I work with facts, but you have the glowing imagination that conduces to the creation of facts." "Big words! Grand words!" said the sergeant.
"Never let Colonel Newcomb forget the west," continued Warner, not noticing the interruption.

"Keep it before him all the time.

Hint that there can be no success along the Mississippi without him and his regiment." "I'll do what I can," promised Dick faithfully, and he did much.

Colonel Newcomb had already formed a strong attachment for this zealous and valuable young aide, and he did not forget the words that Dick said on every convenient occasion about the west.

He made urgent representations that he and his regiment be sent to the relief of the struggling Northern forces there, and he contrived also that these petitions should reach the President.