I may join the Federal Army, but not a word of this to any one." "Oh, massah," Sam began, but Hugh left him ere he finished, and compelled himself to join the group on the front side of the building, startling them as he had Sam by announcing his determination to start on the morrow for New York.
Alice's exclamation of surprise was lost as Irving rejoined: "Then we may travel together, as I, too, leave in the morning." Hugh gave him a rapid, searching glance, and then his eye fell on Alice, whose white face he jealously fancied was caused by the prospect of parting so soon with her affianced husband.

He could not guess whether she were going to Europe or not.

A few weeks seemed so short a time in which to prepare, that he half believed she might induce Mr.Stanley to defer the trip till autumn.

But he would not ask.

She would surely tell him at the last, he thought.