And if we save the stores look how we'll stand in Old Jack's mind.

Lord, Kenton, but he's a queer man! You'd never take any notice of him, if you didn't know who he was, but I'd rather have one flash of approval from those solemn eyes of his than whole dictionaries of praise from all the other generals I know." "I saw him at Bull Run, when he saved the day." "So did I.The regiment that I was with didn't come up until near the close, but our baptism of battle was pretty thorough, all the same.
Hark! did you think you heard anything, Kenton ?" Harry listened attentively.
"Yes, I hear something," he replied.

"It's very soft, but I should say that it's the distant beat of hoofs." "And of many hoofs." "So I think." "Then it's our friends of the North, coming to take what we want to keep.

A few minutes more, Kenton, and they'll be here." They slipped back toward the warehouse, and Harry's heart began to throb heavily.

He knew that Sherburne's words would soon come true..