Now then.

Listen: "HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VA.
"_Pass Virginia Cary and escort through all Confederate lines and give safe-conduct wherever possible._ "R.E.

LEE, _General_." There was silence for a moment, then Virgie looked up, with tears in her eyes and voice.
"An' he did that--for little _me_?
Oh, Daddy, I love him so much, it--it makes me want to cry." She hid her face on the coat of gray, and sobbed; while her father stroked her hair and answered soothingly, but in a tone of mourning reverie: "So do we all, darling; big grown men, who have suffered, and are losing all they love.

They are ragged--and wounded--hungry--and, oh, so tired! But, when they think of _him_, they draw up their belts another hole, and say, '_For General Lee!_' And then they can fight and fight and fight--till their hearts stop beating--and the god of battles writes them a bloody pass!" Again he had risen to his feet.

He was speaking proudly, in the reckless passion of the yet unconquered Southerner, only half-conscious of the tot who watched him, wondering.