Then the two, with several of the senior officers, went into a house, while the younger men remained outside, and on guard.
"I knew that we were waiting for somebody of importance," said Warner, "but I didn't dream that it was the biggest man we've got in the field." "Didn't your algebra give you any hint of it ?" asked Dick.
"No.

An algebra reasons.

It doesn't talk and waste its time in idle chatter." The young officers with their horses walked back and forth a long time, while Grant and Sheridan talked.

Dick, surprised that Grant had left the trenches before Petersburg and had come so far to meet his lieutenant, felt that the meeting must be momentous.

But it was even more crowded with the beginnings of great events than he thought.