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Much of Bell's time was passed with Katy at the far readily of Uncle Ephrai his entire vacation there, with the exception of three days given to his family Perfectly charmed with quaint Aunt Betsy, whom he remembered so well, he flattered and courted her almost asraht alone in the parlor until the clock struck twelve--a habit which Aunt Betsy greatly disapproved, but overlooked for this once, seeing, as she said, that: "The young leftenant was none of her kin, and Isabel only a little"

Those were halcyon days which Robert passed at Silverton, but one stood out proing into the battle, and that the one when, casting aside all pride and foolish theories, Bell Caed her love for the ed, and paid hiive

"I shall be a better soldier for this," Robert had said, as he guided her down the steep of rocks, and with her hand in his, walked slowly back to the farain his place in the arhs for hi again, when caht until, beco separated from his comrades, he fell into the eneraphic wires to New York: "Lieutenant Robert Reynolds captured the first day of the battle"

Afterward there caether with many othersshot, and a great deal better than being burned, as so to comfort Bell, who doubted a little her sister's word

True, there was now the shadow of a hope that he ht survive the horrors, the est heart shiver with dread; but the probabilities were all against it, and Bell's face grew almost as white as Helen's, while her eyes acquired that restless, watchful, anxious look which has crept into the eyes of soaway to the southward, where the dear ones were languishing in the filthy rebel holes, unworthy the name of prison