We'll defeat him, of course.

Now, Mason, notice that light flickering on the mountain up there!" He pointed to the crest of a ridge two or three miles away, where Dick saw a point of flame appearing and reappearing, and answered by another point farther down, which flickered in the same manner.
"Signals of some kind, I suppose," replied Dick, "but I don't know who makes them or what they mean." "I don't know what they mean, either," said Ohio; "but I can guess pretty well who's making them.

That's Slade." "Slade!" said Dick.
"Yes, you seem to have heard of him ?" "So I have, and I've seen him, also.

I heard, too, that he was up here making things unhappy for our side.

He was in Vicksburg, although you may not have heard of him there, but he got out before the surrender.