Warner picked it up and examined it carefully.

Then he looked at the book.
"It went half way through," he said in tones of genuine solemnity.

"If it had gone all the way it would have pierced my heart and I could never have known how this war is going to end.

It has saved my life, and I shall always keep it over my heart until we go back home." Dick was asleep the next minute, and they did not wake him for twelve hours.

When he came from the tent he stood blinking in the sun, and a tall lean youth hailed him with a joyous shout: "Why, it's Mason--Mason of Kentucky!" exclaimed the lad, extending a hardened hand.