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Daddy-man it's too much." Pemrose Lorry clasped her hands. Her blue-star eyes, blue at the moment as the tiny blossoms of the meadow star-grass for which some fairy has captured a sky-beam, were suddenly wet.
She closed the clumsy shutters and set the heavy bars into their slots; then the man came forward, knelt down before her and took her hands. "Listen, Virginia," he whispered earnestly; "don't you remember how your dear, dear mother and I, too, darling always told you never to tell a lie?" "An' I haven't, Daddy-man," she protested, wondering. "'Deed, an' 'deed, I haven't. Why "
"Why why! there's no knowing what you and I may be doing yet, when we strain our wits to cracking, is there, Daddy-man?" she exulted further. "You say, yourself, that once space is conquered, that horribly cold old zero space outside the earth's atmosphere, anything devised that will move through it, as our Thunder Bird can do, then then there's no limit!
So she came to him quickly, taking his hand in both her own, and striving to bring him comfort from the fountain of her little mother-heart. "Don't you worry, Daddy-man. We'll we'll whip 'em yet." "No, dear no," he sighed, as he dropped into his seat. "We won't. It's hard enough on men; but harder still on children such as you."
"Yes, dear," he answered slowly, thoughtfully; "this once! And, if ever you see him, ask him, and he'll tell you so himself. God help you, darling; it's for General Lee and you!" The littlest rebel sighed, as though a weight had been lifted from her mind, and she cocked her head at the sound of louder hoof-beats on the carriage road. "All right, Daddy-man. I'll tell a whopper!"
Daddy-man I'm so glad." Here there was a little laboratory explosion, a rocket of feeling fired off, as the owner of that hybrid name, Pemrose, came down from her pinnacle and, perching upon a low tool-chest at the inventor's side, took the humbler place she loved, fellow of her father's heart.
It was Morrison who spoke, in mercy for the man; and once more Cary understood. He turned to cross the broken door; to face a firing squad in the hot, brown woods; to cross the gulf which stretched beyond the rumble of the guns and the snarling lip of war. But even as he turned, a baby's voice called out, in cheerful parting, which he himself had failed to speak: "Good-by, Daddy-man.
"But I'm not afraid of them, Daddy-man," cried the small daughter, and she doubled up her fist ferociously. "Look at that." "Aha! There's a brave little Rebel," her father cried as he swept her up in a hearty hug. "You're not afraid of them, nor you either, God bless you," and his lips rested for a moment on his wife's soft cheek. "Only, you are apt to be a little too haughty.
Do you hear that, Cap'n Susan," she crooned to the doll, unconscious of the convulsion of silent amusement beside her. "When we get to Richmon' if we ever do get there I'm going to make you a uniform!" Then she turned to her father with a little sigh, for the miles seemed very long. "How far is it to Richmon', Daddy-man?" she said. "Just about twelve miles," her father answered.
"Daddy-man thinks he'll be well! not an old man, but that his best energies will be spent by that time, even if "
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