CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE INTERVIEW.
We left August on that summer day on the levee at Louisville without employment.

He was not exactly disheartened, but he was homesick.

That he was forbidden to go back by threats of prosecution for his burglarious manner of entering Samuel Anderson's house was reason enough for wanting to go; that his father's family were not yet free from danger was a stronger reason; but strongest of all, though he blushed to own it to himself, was the longing to be where he might perchance sometimes see the face he had seen that spring morning in the bottom of a sun-bonnet.

Right manfully did he fight against his discouragement and his homesickness, and his longing to see Julia.

It was better to stay where he was.