The rock of Chickamauga by Joseph Alexander Altsheler

Author:Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company

They felt the greatness of the hour, Grant's daring stroke, and the possibility that he might yet be surrounded and overwhelmed. Their minds were attuned, too, to other and yet mightier deeds, but they were glad, nevertheless, of a little rest. The Woodville house was a splendid place, and in the morning they did not feel so much the chill of embarrassment that had been created for them the night before.

Dick went straight to the room of Colonel Woodville, opened the door without knocking, and closed it behind him quickly but noiselessly.

The colonel was propped up in his bed and a tray bearing light and delicate food lay on a chair. His daughter stood beside the bed, speechless with anger at this intrusion. Dick lifted his hand, and the look upon his face checked one of the mightiest oaths that had ever welled up from the throat of Colonel Charles Woodville, king of swearers.

"Stop!" said Dick in a voice not loud, but sharp with command.

"Can't we at least have privacy in the room of an old and wounded man?" asked Miss Woodville.

"You can hereafter," replied Dick quietly. "I shall not come again, but I tell you now to get him out of the house to-night, unless he's too badly hurt to be moved."

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