Oh, that will be a glorious day.

Tell our friends the good news--I want all to share it." And she did tell her father and mother, but they said, let it be kept still for the present.

The careful father also told her to write Washington and warn him not to speculate with the money, but to wait a little and advise with one or two wise old heads.

She did this.

And she managed to keep the good news to herself, though it would seem that the most careless observer might have seen by her springing step and her radiant countenance that some fine piece of good fortune had descended upon her.
Harry joined the Colonel at Stone's Landing, and that dead place sprang into sudden life.