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Steele, who was at Little Rock, undertook to move at the same time to meet the combined forces and the fleet on the Red River. Confronting Steele was Price; across Banks's line of advance stood Taylor; with the whole or any part of his force, Sherman and Porter might have to reckon, and in any case Fort De Russy must be neutralized or reduced before they could get to Alexandria.
"No danger of that," said the general, with a laugh; "you'll never see them as far up in the country as this. Pray be seated, sir." After greeting his wife and daughters, the general again turned to the major, whom, by his soldierly bearing, he at once picked out as the leader of the band, and inquired: "May I ask what you are doing up here? Has not your command been ordered to Fort De Russy?"
Russy fell back in a heap on the pillows and sobbed into them. "My badness!" anybody but a Lie would have said "my goodness," "but you did do it up brown that time, didn't you! But I don't suppose he believed a word of it you didn't make him believe you, did you?" "He had to," cried out Russy, fiercely. "He said I'd never lied to him in my life " "Before; yes, I know."
On the afternoon of the 14th, Mower arrived before Fort De Russy, and just before nightfall the brigades of Lynch and Shaw swept over the parapet and forced a surrender, with a loss of 3 killed and 35 wounded.
It crowded him, it tortured him so. "This is it," thought Russy, and sank down gratefully on the cushions. His bare feet scarcely touched toe-tips to the floor. Here he would stay all night. This was better than "I'm coming, which way are you? Can't you speak up?" The Lie was coming, too! Suddenly an awful thought flashed across Russy's little, weary brain. What if the Lie would always come, too?
But George assured them that there was not the slightest danger, as all the troops in that part of the country had been ordered to Fort De Russy, and were hourly expecting an attack; consequently they would find no one at home except George's mother, sisters, and a few old negroes who were too feeble to work on the fortifications.
Russy rocked himself back and forth in his agony. It was dreadful to have to say it all over again. "Well, then," doggedly, "Jeffy said my mother never did, but his did oh, always!" "Did what oh, always?" Russy clinched his little round fingers till the bones cracked under the soft flesh. "Kissed him good-night went up to his room a-purpose to, an' an' tucked him in. Oh, always, he said.
So the wily friar put on the Spinola livery, and, without impediment, accompanied Don Aurelio to Madrid. Meantime, the French commissioners Pierre Jeannin, Buzanval, regular resident at the Hague, and De Russy, who was destined to succeed that diplomatist had arrived in Holland.
Russy opened his eyes. "Why! Why, so it is!" he said. "And calling you 'Dear, Russy! Don't you hear her? Dear boy, dear little boy! You hear her, don't you, Russy dear?" "Why, yes! why!" "And tucking you into bed like this, so! She's tucking in the blanket now, and now the little quilt, Russy! That is what mothers are for I never thought before oh, I never thought!"
You'd swap it for those quick enough and not ask a single bit of "boot." You almost wanted to hear the noises. It came across the room. There was no sound, but Russy knew it was coming well enough. He knew when it got up close to the side of the bed. Then it stopped and began to speak. It wasn't "out loud" and it wasn't a whisper, but Russy heard it.
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