We can easily reach the town ahead of that squad of cavalry, and if you have some safe place there to go, and will only keep indoors, there is no danger of discovery." "I have," eagerly, "Judge Moran's house; you can see its gable there among the trees.

He is so old he has not even been conscripted." She laughed, flashing a look aside at me as she shook the reins and applied the whip.

"I wonder what he will think when he sees me driving up alongside a Yankee.

It will be like the end of the world.

No, don't talk to me any more; I've got to conjure up a nice, respectable story to tell him." She remained very quiet as we rattled down the hill, her forehead puckered, her gaze straight ahead.