He had a most wonderful vision of the Elysian fields and of himself wandering through them for a week, knee deep in flowers, and playing the softest of music on a guitar." "He's put that in about the guitar," protested St.Clair.

"I never mentioned such a thing, but all the rest is true." "Well, if I had my way," said the colonel, "you should have a guitar, too, if you wanted it, and I like that idea of yours about a week in the Elysian fields.

We'll join you there and we'll all walk around among the flowers, and Hector's relative, that wonderful musician, young De Langeais, shall play to us on his violin, and maybe the famous Stonewall will come walking to us through the flowers, and he'll have with him Albert Sidney Johnston, and Turner Ashby and all the great ones that have gone." The colonel stopped, and Harry felt a slight choking in his throat.
"In the course of this lull, Leonidas and I had some thought of resuming our unfinished game of chess," said Lieutenant Colonel St.Hilaire, "but the time is really unpropitious and too short.

It may be that we shall have to wait until the war is over to conclude the match.

The enemy is pressing us hard, and I need not conceal from you lads that he will press us harder tomorrow." "So he will," agreed Colonel Talbot.