That was a net percentage of seventy-two in favor of meeting you here in Cairo, and the seventy-two per cent has prevailed, as it usually does." "Nothing is so bad that it can't be worse," said Sergeant Whitley, as he too gave Dick's hand an iron grasp, "and I knew that when we lost you we'd be pretty glad to see you again.

Here you are safe an' sound, an' here we are safe an' sound, a most satisfactory condition in war." "But not likely to remain so long, judging from what we see here," said Warner.

"We hear that this man Grant is a restless sort of a person who thinks that the way to beat the enemy is just to go in and beat him." Major Hertford came up at that moment, and he, too, gave Dick a welcome that warmed his heart.

But the boy did not get to remain long with his old comrades.

The Pennsylvania regiment had been much cut down through the necessity of leaving detachments as guards at various places along the river, but it was yet enough to make a skeleton and its entity was preserved, forming a little eastern band among so many westerners.
Dick, at General Grant's order, was transferred permanently to the staff of Colonel Winchester, and he and the other officers slept that night in a small building in the outskirts of Cairo.