23/27 Do you know him, Mr.Shepard ?" "Well. A young man, and a little man. Why, you'd overtop him more than half a head, Mr.Mason, but he has a great soul for battle. He's the kind that will strike and strike, and keep on striking, and that's the kind we need now." "Here are our own men just ahead. I see the three colonels riding together." They went forward swiftly and told what they had seen, Shepard also describing the nature of the ground ahead, and the manner in which the two roads converged. |