He handed the glasses to Warner and said quietly: "George, I see troops on the edge of that far hill to the south and the east.

Can't you see them, too ?" "Yes, I can make them out clearly now, as they pass across a bit of open land.

They're Confederate cavalry, two hundred at least, I should say." Dick learned long afterward that it was the troop of Sherburne, but, for the present, the name of Sherburne was unknown to him.

He merely felt that this was the vanguard of Jackson riding forward to set the trap.
The men were now so near that they could be seen with the naked eye, and the sergeant said tersely: "At last we've seen what we were afraid we would see." "And look to the left also," said Warner, who still held the glasses.
"There's a troop of horse coming up another road, too.

By George, they're advancing at a trot! We'd better clear out or we may be enclosed between the two horns of their cavalry." "We'll go back to our force at Cedar Run," said Harry, "and report what we've seen.