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President Lincoln received the news quietly and without any visible sign of perturbation or excitement; but he remained awake and in the executive office all of Sunday night, listening to the personal narratives of a number of congressmen and senators who had, with undue curiosity, followed the army and witnessed some of the sounds and sights of the battle.
It was decided to spend the night at a place a few miles distant. In the excitement a young mother was separated from her little boy, a child of about three or four years of age. She concluded that he was with some other member of the family in another carriage and did not trouble herself about it. But on their arrival at their place of refuge he was not found with any of the others.
"The gold!" he shrieked. "The gold! Hurrah!" He was almost sobbing in his excitement when he stopped between them, holding out the bit of paper. "I found it in the cabin in a tin box! See, it's John Ball's writing the writing that was on the old map! I found it in a tin box " Wabi seized the paper. His own breath came more quickly when he saw what was upon it.
But oh, I am so glad, so glad and God answered my prayer and saved you, Fran my daughter!" It was half-past nine when Abbott met Fran, according to appointment, before the Snake Den. From her hands she had removed the color of Italy, and from her body, the glittering raiment of La Gonizetti. Fran came up to the young man from out the crowded street, all quivering excitement.
And, although Hazel had her own private ideas about the reality of the danger, she was struck by his coolness and courage, for which, whether justified or not by the occasion, she was quite fair-minded enough to give him due credit. Meanwhile, the other two boys, bursting with excitement, had rushed up to the verandah, under which their mother and uncle were sitting. 'Mother! Uncle Lambert!
So after creating some excitement by its peculiarities, it fell of its own weight. But I remembered it, and in many a spare hour have tried to see my way through the no-thoroughfare it presented. But quite in vain.
Of course, I accepted the invitation and was on hand at the palace, as I thought, promptly. As a matter of fact, my watch having in some mysterious fashion been affected by the excitement of the adventure, got galloping away just as my own heart had done more than once. The result was that, instead of arriving at the palace at eight o'clock, as I was expected to do, I got there at seven.
Boulder knew it at least subconsciously. "Yes, logs," he would continue, still in deep sorrow; "just the plain cedar, not squared, you know, the old original timber; I had them cut right out of the forest." By this time the visitor's excitement was obvious. "And is there game there?" he would ask. "We have the timber-wolf," said Mr.
She made him sit down and poured the coffee for him saying: "You sure can. With or without?" "I'll play it straight," grinned Slim. "I reckon you'll have to, anyway. Here you are." Slim took the cup with a "thankee." He drank long and deeply. Then he paused, made a wry face, and danced his feet up and down, as a child does in anger or excitement. "What's the matter?" asked the girl, with a laugh.
He sat there in his poor little room and made those things live again for us. By a lift of the eyebrow, a twist of the lip, a gesture, a word, he painted some whole scene or character so that we saw it as it was. Finally, he lent Robert his life-book. Robert sat up all night reading it and came to the breakfast table in great excitement. "Mary, this is a wonderful book.
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