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Praying for both, his heart grew strong, and he heard the sick man say, ere he journeyed forth to the crossroads: "You have shown me the way. I have peace." "Speak for me in the Presence," said Sherburne softly. The dying man could not answer, but that moment, as he journeyed forth on the Far Trail, he held Sherburne's hand. "Why don't she come back, father?"
Harry and Dalton were aroused before daylight by Colonel Peyton of Lee's staff, with instructions to mount at once, and join a strong detachment, ready to go ahead and clear a way. Sherburne's troop would lead. The Invincibles, for whom mounts had been obtained, would follow.
The Southerners at the war's opening had the advantage of an almost universal familiarity with the rifle, and now they used it well. Sherburne's two hundred men, always cool and steady, fired like trained marksmen, and the others did almost as well. Most of them had new rifles, using cartridges, and no cavalry on earth could stand before such a fire.
Sherburne's troop was a portion of a strong cavalry force, which divided as it reached the base of the Massanuttons, a half passing on either side. Sherburne and Harry rode to the right in order to see the army of Shields. The day was beautiful, with a glorious June sun and gentle winds, but Harry, feeling something strange about it, realized presently that it was the silence.
But Shepard's feeling for his official enemies would not keep him from acting against them with all the skill, courage and daring that he possessed in such supreme measure. He knew that it was Sherburne's task to open a way for the Army of Northern Virginia to the Potomac and to find a ford, or, in cooperation with some other force, to build a bridge. It was for him to defeat the plan if he could.
"Then it's our friends of the North, coming to take what we want to keep. A few minutes more, Kenton, and they'll be here." They slipped back toward the warehouse, and Harry's heart began to throb heavily. He knew that Sherburne's words would soon come true. Captain Sherburne told Captain McGee that the invaders were coming, and there was a stir in the ranks of the defenders.
Even at Sherburne's place its escape is more than doubtful, if it has to linger long." "Yes, I know these things quite well, Mr. Shepard. I know also, as you do, that General Meade's army is not in direct pursuit, and, that in a flanking movement, he is advancing across South Mountain and toward Sharpsburg.
These were soldiers coming to defeat and destroy, and it was his business to help prevent it. His own pulse of battle began to beat hard. That front of steel, spread wide across the open, was within two hundred yards now! Then a hundred and fifty! Then a hundred! Then less, and fierce and sharp like the crack of a rifle came Captain Sherburne's command: "Fire!"
For the better part of four unproductive years had the life of Calico run to commonplaces. Then, early one June morning, came an hour big with events. Being the nigh horse in Uncle Enoch's pair, Calico caught first glimpse of the weird procession which met them as they turned into the Bangor road at Sherburne's Corners.
Two shots were fired by the Union men at the same instant, and then both parties dropped back from the crest, each on its own side. Sherburne's men were untouched and Harry was confident that Shepard's had been equally lucky the shots had been too hasty but it was nervous and uncomfortable work, lying there in the snow, and waiting for the head of an enemy to appear over the crest.
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