Hear those guns! It almost seems as though the fighting was already within sight of the house." I stepped across to the window and looked out.

"However it is all to the north and east, and there is still opportunity for us to get safely away into the ravine.

I cannot understand why our forces have not taken advantage of it--in that way they could have struck the enemy a stunning blow on the left.

There's a blunder somewhere.

But we can hold the house no longer; only before I go I must know that you believe in me." "I do," earnestly.
"And I am going to clinch that faith," opening the door into the hall.
"Major Hardy, just a moment." He turned back from the open window, his face flushed with excitement.
"The stragglers are beginning to show up," he exclaimed pointing, "and the boys are fighting like hell out there beyond those woods.