He was intent upon the battle, the noise of which was deafening.

The firing was so continuous and so near at hand--the very house shaking--that I almost lost my nerve.

Then I turned my head and looked the other way, and there, back in the shadows of the ell hallway, in almost exactly the same spot where I had seen him before, stood one of your soldiers.

He had his revolver out in his hand, and was crouching forward in such a way that his hat brim almost totally concealed his face, but I knew instinctively that he was the same man I saw last night.

And--and he was watching father." Her voice broke, and she pressed her hands to her eyes, as though to blot out the memory, yet her hesitancy was but for an instant.
"I didn't know what to do.