I hope they will soon bring the little fellow to see me.

Ah, I knew Elsie would make just such a lovely mother." "Nothing about the time of their return," observed May, as she finished reading; "but they will hardly linger long after the close of the war." May had left the room, and Harold lay languid and weak upon his cot.

A Confederate officer, occupying the next, addressed him, rousing him out of the reverie into which he had fallen.
"Excuse me, sir, but I could not help hearing some parts of the letter read aloud by the lady--your sister, I believe----" "Yes.

Of course you could not help hearing, and there is no harm done," Harold answered with a friendly tone and smile.

"So no need for apologies." "But there is something else.