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"But Daisy!" she said suddenly - "the other arard's - they will be here directly to take Washington,

if all this is true; and it must be true; or that soldier

would not have been out there in the rain They will be co

here directly, Daisy And, blessthere, patient and pale, and you have had no

breakfast Coive you some coffee Grant

said he would be down to dinner perhaps; and how angry he

would be"

We drank cups of coffee, but I do not think either of us broke

bread

That was a weary day All the day long new groups were for over the

news; groups of all sorts Soldiers discoursing to audiences

like the one in the ; knots of officers; twos and

threes of business ; all

under the dark rain, all with downcast faces and dispirited

bearing Late in the day Major Fairbairn called He soreat; the loss not so

tree done not

so absolutely overwhelard will coton?" Mrs Sandford asked

"I don't know!" the major said, with a smile "He must be

quick about it, or it will be too late"

"But is this a final settling of the question, Major

Fairbairn?" I inquired "That is what I want to know"

"We have been whipped," he said, looking at me