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I was as much astonished at the decision of my father as Owen could be; but I said nothing, and my cousin soon went on shore, for he was staying at the house of Colonel Shepard. We had landed the Garbrooks at Green Cove Springs, where their yacht was waiting for them. On Tuesday came the trial of Griffin Leeds. Cornwood's defence was weak, and he seemed to have no pluck.
"That man here among our batteries!" he exclaimed in a menacing tone. "Come away, colonel!" said Harry hastily. "We don't know anything against him!" But Shepard himself acted first. He came forward quickly, his hand extended, and his eyes expressing pleasure. "I missed you this morning, Mr. Kenton," he said.
"Then keep close behind me, all of you," said Shepard. "We're above the steepest part now, and I know a little path that leads to the ravine. Don't stumble if you can help it."
The moonlight faded and then the stars were dimmed, as the darkness that precedes the dawn came. The silvery veil that had been thrown over them vanished and the column became a ghostly train riding in the dusk. But the road into which Shepard guided them led over a pleasant land of hills and clear streams.
Perhaps if I had known it was you I wouldn't have fired upon you." "Don't let that deter you. We're enemies." "I merely said 'perhaps! I like you, but that wouldn't keep me from stopping you by any method I could from reaching Lee." "I'm sure it wouldn't. I like you, too, Mr. Shepard, but we're enemies here in this river, deadly enemies, and I mean to beat you off."
He has, I should say, slightly less than a thousand men." "You know a good deal about this regiment called the Invincibles, do you not, Mr. Shepard?" "I do, sir. Its colonel, Talbot, and its lieutenant-colonel, St. Hilaire, are as brave men as any that ever lived, and the regiment has an extraordinary reputation in the Southern army for courage.
"Which column do you think will reach the junction first?" asked Colonel Hertford. "They'll come to it about the same time," replied Shepard. "And so a clash is unavoidable. It was not our purpose to fight before we reached General Sheridan, but since the enemy wants it, it must be that way."
He put a pair of powerful glasses to his eyes and scanned the sea's rim. He looked a long time, and then his face showed excitement. "It comes! It comes!" he exclaimed, more to himself than to Harry and Arthur. "Is it the steamer? Is it the Star of the West?" exclaimed Harry forgetting all doubts of Shepard in the thrill of the moment. "Yes, the Star of the West!
"It's that feller Bosley what came with the rest uv the boys. I know that gray comfort what's tied 'roun' his neck, an' the 'coonskin cap what's on his head. He jest crawled behind that little twisted pine up thar, an' took a pot shot at some uv us down here." "I wish I could reach him," said Shepard. "Ef you could I wouldn't let you," said the mountaineer grimly. "Why?" "'Cause he's my meat.
During their drive my wife happened to raise her arm, and Miss Shepard espied a little Greek cross of gold which had attached itself to the lace of her sleeve. . . . . Pray heaven the jeweller may not discover his loss before we have time to restore the spoil!
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