But it was only for an instant.

Then the smoke rushed in between.

I don't think anything serious has happened to him." Mrs.Mason shuddered.
"I should mourn him next to you," she said, "and my brother-in-law, Colonel Kenton, has been very good.

He left orders with his people to watch over us here.

Pendleton is strongly Southern as you know, but nobody would do us any harm, unless it was the rough people from the hills." Colonel Kenton's wife had been Mrs.Mason's elder sister, and Dick, as he also sat staring into the coals, wondered why people who were united so closely should yet be divided so much.
"Mother," he said, "when I came through the mountains with my friends we stopped at a house in which lived an old, old woman.