Sergeant Whitley, you're an experienced trailer: do you see any signs that troops have passed here ?" "None at all, sir.

Down near the gate where the drive is out of repair I noticed wheel tracks, but they were several days old.

The freshest of them were light, as if made by buggies.

I judge, sir, that it was the family, the last to leave." "And the wagons containing their valuables had gone on ahead ?" "It would seem so, sir." Colonel Winchester sighed.
"An invader is always feared and hated," he said.
"But we do come as enemies," said Dick, "and this feeling toward us can't be helped." "That's true.

No matter what we do we'll never make any friends here in one of the Gulf states, the very core of Southern feeling.