[A Man for the Ages by Irving Bacheller]@TWC D-Link bookA Man for the Ages CHAPTER VIII 24/35
Governor Reynolds called for volunteers to check the invasion. Abe, whose address to the voters had been printed in the _Sangamon Journal_, joined a volunteer company and soon became its captain.
On the tenth of April he and Harry Needles left for Richland to go into training.
Samson was eager to go, but could not leave his family. Bim Kelso rode out into the fields where Harry was at work the day before he went away. "This is a great surprise," said Harry.
"I don't see you any more except at a distance." "I don't see you either." "I didn't think you wanted to see me." "You're easily discouraged," she said, looking down with a serious face. "You made me feel as if I didn't want to live any longer." "I reckon I'm mean.
I made myself feel a million times worse.
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