"
"How strange!"
"But the strangest is yet to be told. Harry Kenton, when he went east
to join Beauregard before Bull Run, stopped at the same house, and when
she first saw him she only looked into the far past. She thought it was
Henry Ware himself, and she saluted him as the governor. What do you
think of that, mother?"
"It's a startling coincidence."
"But may it not be an omen? I'm not superstitious, mother, but when
things come together in such a queer fashion it's bound to make you
think. When Harry's paths and mine cross in such a manner maybe it
means that we shall all come together again, and be united as we were."
"Maybe."
"At any rate," said Dick with a little laugh, "we'll hope that it does."
While the boy was not noticing his mother had made a sign to Juliana,
who had crept out of the room. Now she returned, bearing food upon a
tray, and Dick, although he was not hungry, ate to please his mother.
"You will stay until morning?" she said.
"No, mother. I can't afford to be seen here. I must leave in the dark."
"Then until it is nearly morning."
"Nor that either, mother. My time is about up already. I could never
betray the trust that General Thomas has put in me. My dispatches
not only tell of the gathering of our own troops, but they contain
invaluable information concerning the Confederate concentration which
General Thomas learned from his scouts and spies. Mother, I think a
great battle is coming here in the west.
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