Send it to Lady Howe and she will copy it and return the original." Then said the sturdy old Yankee: "I desire, my friends, that there shall be no secrecy about it." Lord and Lady Howe showed signs of great disappointment as he bade them good night and begged to be sent to his room.
"I am growing old, and have to ask for like indulgence from every hostess," he pleaded.
Howe was not willing to leave a stone unturned.

He could not dismiss the notion from his mind that the purchase could be effected if the bid were raised.

He drew the Doctor aside and said: "We do not expect your assistance without proper consideration.

I shall insist upon generous and ample appointments for the men you take with you and especially for you as well as a firm promise of _subsequent rewards_." What crown had he in mind for the white and venerable brow of the man who stood before him?
Beneath that brow was a new type of statesman, born of the hardships and perils and high faith of a new world, and then and there as these two faced each other--the soul of the past and the soul of the future--a moment was come than which there had been no greater in human history.

In America, France and England the cocks had been crowing and now the first light of the dawn of a new day fell upon the figure of the man who in honor and understanding towered above his fellows.