Then his courage came back.
"You predict as you hope, Mr.Shepard," he said.
Shepard laughed a little, though not with mirth, and said: "It is well that it should be settled here.

There will be death on a greater scale than any the war has yet seen, but it will have to come sooner or later, and why not at Gettysburg?
Good-bye, I go back to the heights.

May we both be alive to-morrow night to see which is right." "The wish is mine, too," said Harry sincerely.
Shepard turned away and disappeared in the darkness.

Harry rejoined Dalton who was on the other side of the spring, and the two returned to Seminary Ridge, where they walked among sleeping thousands.

They found their way to their comrades of the staff, and their physical powers collapsing at last they fell on the ground where they soon sank into a heavy sleep.