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With me, also, were two veterans of my team, McCall and Spears, who lived in Chicago, and who would have traveled a few miles to see the Rube pitch. And the other member of my party was Mrs. Hurtle, the Rube's wife, as saucy and as sparkling-eyed as when she had been Nan Brown.
Eager to be in at the death of treason, he hastened home, shortened his stay with wife and friends, and hurried on to City Point. As usual, he was present in the nick of time. He was able to write his first letter from the Army of the Potomac, descriptive of the attack on Fort Steadman, March 25th. On the 26th he saw again the sparkling-eyed Sheridan.
It was Saturday night and Broadway was thronged with men eager to spend in pleasure part of the week's wages or salary they had just drawn; with women sparkling-eyed and odorous of perfumes and eager to help the men. The air was sharp was the ocean air of New York at its delicious best.
But that evening he went through a worse experience, and it was the last blow to his budding passion for sparkling-eyed Nina. It was nearly tattoo, and a dark night, when Chester suddenly came in: "Rollins, you remember my telling you I was sure some of the men had been getting liquor in from the shore down below the station and 'running it' that way?
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