"I've just remembered that I'm an invalid and that if I overtask myself it will be a bad thing for McClellan to-morrow.

The colonel doesn't want us any longer, and so here goes." "I follow," said Pennington.

"The dry earth is good enough for me.

May I stay on top of it for the next half century." Warner and Pennington slept quickly, but Dick lay awake a long time, listening to the stray rifle shots and the distant boom of a cannon at far intervals.

After a while, he looked at his watch and saw that it was midnight.