"Can you see a hill crested with a low farm house ?" "Yes," replied John, after looking a little while.

"It's straight ahead.
The house is partly hidden by trees." "Then that's the place.

You wouldn't think we'd come nearly fifty miles, would you, John ?" "Fifty miles! It feels more like a thousand!" Lannes laughed, this time with satisfaction, not excitement.
"You'll find there the general to whom we reported first," he said, "and he'll be glad to see us! I can't tell you how glad he will be.

His joy will be far beyond our personal deserts.

It will have little to do with the fact that you, John Scott, and I, Philip Lannes, have come back to him." The circling _Arrow_ came down in a meadow just behind the house, and officers rushed forward to meet it.