What about it, Harry ?" "Stonewall Jackson alone knows, and he's not telling." "They say that Banks is coming with ten to one!" said Langdon, "but it might be worse than that.

It might be a hundred to one." "It's hardly as bad as ten to one, Tom," said Harry with a laugh.
"Ashby's men say it's only eight to one, and they know." "It's all right, then," said Langdon, squaring his shoulders, and looking ferocious.

"Ten to one would be a little rough on us, but I don't mind eight to one at all! at all! They say that the army of Banks is not many miles away.

Is it so, Harry ?" "I suppose so.

That's the news the cavalry bring in." Harry rode on, saluting Colonel Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel St.
Hilaire as he passed.