When he came forth from the tent he regained his horse and rode away without a word, going in the direction of Clark's Mountain.

But his news was quickly known, because it was of a kind that could not be concealed.
Pennington came running with it to the regiment, his face flushed and his eyes big.
"Look! Look at the mountain!" he exclaimed.
"I see it," said Warner.

"I saw it there yesterday, too, in exactly the same place." "So did I, but there's something behind it.

Lee and Jackson are there with sixty or eighty thousand men! The whole Southern army is only six or seven miles away." Even Warner's face changed.
"How do you know this ?" he asked.
"A spy has seen their army.

They say he is a man whose reports are never false.