It was the women of Louisburg coming to seek their slain--a sight most monstrous, most terrible, unknown upon any field of civilized war, and unfit to be tolerated even in the thought! It is for men, who sow the fields of battle, to attend also to the reaping.
Franklin stood at the inner edge of the earthworks, half hidden by a little clump of trees.

It seemed to him that he could not well escape without being seen, and he hesitated at this thought, Yet as he stood it appeared that he must be an intruder even thus against his will.

He saw approaching him, slowly but almost in direct line, two figures, an older lady and a girl.

They came on, as did the others, always with that slow, searching attitude, the walk broken with pauses and stoopings.

The quest was but too obvious.