_I_ know, 'cause Uncle Billy put him in the ground." She paused, then sank her voice to a whisper of mysterious dread, "An'-- _an' I saw him!_" "Don't think about it, Virgie," begged Morrison, slipping his arm about the mite, and trying not to put his own beloved ones in the little rebel's place.

"What happened then ?" "We came to live here," said Virgie; "but Mamma got sick.

Oh, she got terrible sick--an' one night Daddy came through, and put her in the ground, too.

But _he_ says she's jus' asleep." The soldier started.

Mrs.Cary dead?
This poor tot motherless?
He drew the baby closer to him, stroking her hair, as her sleeping mother might have done, and waited for the rest.
"An' las' Friday, Sally Ann went away--I don't know where--an'-- " "What ?" asked Morrison.