Would it last until help came, or was I destined to remain pinned up in the darkness of this ghastly grave?
Why, I must have been there for hours--hours.

The burning out of the candles proved that.

Surely I could doubt no longer this was a trick, a cowardly, cruel trick! If help had been coming it would have reached me before this.

The day must have passed, and much of the night.

Grant and his party would have marched away long before this on the road to Philadelphia.