CHAPTER III.
IN ARGUMENT The egotism of women is always for two .-- _Mme.

De Staeel_.
The thought of missing my meeting with Elisabeth still rankled in my soul.

Had it been another man who asked me to carry this message, I must have refused.

But this man was my master, my chief, in whose service I had engaged.
Strange enough it may seem to give John Calhoun any title showing love or respect.

To-day most men call him traitor--call him the man responsible for the war between North and South--call him the arch apostle of that impossible doctrine of slavery, which we all now admit was wrong.