9/26 'Young people and beautiful people should not be mercenary. Poor child! you had better have stood by me.' "I answered him nothing, but went out with the colonel, leaving him seated again in his chair, surveying with some apparent amusement the two threatening sentries who stood at the door. The colonel hurried me out of the house, saying: "'We must ride to the barracks. If the news gets there before us, they may cut up rough. |