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Ferry's orders had not been expected to reach him to-night, Gholson said, and so we insisted they and my letter should remain in the saddle-pockets while Gholson ate, and while the good news, public and personal, of the Harpers' letters went round. "But I thought the' was fi-ive letters," said the Squire as we were about to leave the board; at which Mrs.
"How long have you belonged to Ferry's scouts?" sceptically demanded their spokesman. "About an hour and a quarter." "Oh! that-a-way." "Yes," I replied, "in that direction." The three laughed again and the men sank their carbines across their laps, while in a voice as refined as her figure their companion said, "Good-evening, Mr. Smith."
In the little leather-curtained wagon, with the old black man and his daughter, and all her mistress's small belongings, and with my saddle and bridle, I followed on to the house where lay the sergeant, and where my horse would be waiting to bear me on to Ferry's scouts. I saw the Harpers only twice again before the war was over.
That night Ned Ferry of the cavalry withdrawn to the eastward uplands to protect that great source of supplies and its New Orleans and Jackson Railroad was made a lieutenant, and a certain brave Charlotte, whom later he loved and won, bringing New Orleans letters to camp, brought also such news of the foe that before dawn, led by her, Ferry's Scouts rode their first ride.
Another hour wore on, another followed. The General and old Dismukes played cards and the latter began to smell of his drams, Harry and Cecile walked and talked apart, Camille kept me in leash with three other men, and about two o'clock came another courier with another bit of Ferry's writing; Quinn had returned.
The French national debt in 1888 was almost twice as great as that of England, and the largest additions to it were made during M. Grévy's presidency, when enormous sums were spent on public works and on M. Ferry's colonial enterprises.
Wrenn, standing sturdily beside his suit-case to guard it, fawned with romantic love upon the rusty iron sides of their pilgrims' caravel; and as the Merian left the wharf with no more handkerchief-waving or tears than attends a ferry's leaving he mumbled: "Free, free, out to sea. Free, free, that's me!" Then, "Gee!... Gee whittakers!"
"Ferry's doing it Jarvis is doing it even Alec and Bob put me to shame with the manliness they're developing. If Maxwell Lane can't swing into line " "He can, dear he will. He's swung already, when he can talk like this." His sister's hand squeezed his arm tight for a minute, in her happiness. "It's not going to be a matter of talk, mind you," he said earnestly.
What's wrong with our dear friend I don't like to say it, for I admire him so; I don't like to say it, and I never have said it, but, Smith, Ned Ferry's a romanticist. We are relig' what?" "O oh, nothing!" At one point our way sloped down to a ramshackle wooden bridge that spanned a narrow bit of running water at the edge of a wood.
"Gholson, if it isn't Ned Ferry's religion that's worrying you just now about him, what is it?" My companion looked at me as if what he must say was too large for his throat. He made a gesture of lament toward Ferry and broke out, "O oh Smith," nearly all Gholson's oh's were groans "why is he here? The scout is 'the eyes of the army'! a man whose perpetual vigilance at the very foremost front "
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