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Updated: June 27, 2025
Camille was telling me how well Charlotte knew the region south of us, and how her plan was to dine at mid-day with such a friend and to pass the night with such another; but the moment Harry came up she began to upbraid him in her mellowest flute-notes for not telling us that he had got his wound in saving "Now, you ladies " cried the teased aide-de-camp, "I I didn't save Gholson's life!
I looked carefully at my companion and asked him if the Major had said all of that. He had, and Gholson's hide had turned it without taking a scratch. "That's fine! as to Ferry," I said. "Oh, yes, it would be if it was only iso. Trouble is, you keep remembering he's such a stumbling-block to any real spiritual inquirer.
On the same instant with Ned Ferry I sprang half-way to the top of the grove fence and peered out across road and fields upon the farthest point in line with the second fire. There we saw two horsemen reconnoitring, one a very commanding figure, the other mean enough. Ferry used his glass, but no glass was needed to tell either of us that Gholson's reckoning was true; those two were not Federals.
At the same time, from across the hall came the sound of the piano and of Charlotte's voice, now a few bars, then an interval of lively speech, again a few bars, then more speech, and then a sustained melody as she lent herself to the kind flattery of Gholson's songless soul. "But he is!"
"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 "
Two or three bystanders helped us bear him upstairs, where, turning from the bedside, I pressed Camille with eager questions. "Lieutenant Ferry? he's unhurt and so is Mr. Gholson! Mr. Gholson's gone to Franklin for doctors; Lieutenant Ferry sent him; he's been sending everybody everywhere faster than anybody else could think of anything!" I asked where Ferry was now.
And then he led us on, with just a word here and there, until we all agreed as smooth as glass, that all Quinn had said was my fault, and all I had done was Gholson's fault, and all Gholson had said or done or left undone was our fault, and the rest was partly Ned's fault, but mostly accident."
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