3/5 "Jack," it said, "I grieve unspeakably. I am sad beyond all imaginings of sadness. Come back the first day thee can to thy mother." There was indeed need for me at home. Yet here was I with my errand not yet well begun; for Captain Stevenson told me this morning that the Post Adjutant had received word from Colonel Meriwether saying that he would be gone for some days or weeks on the upper frontier. |