Willie Harvey Jersey

"No, madam."

"Has he a taste for fiction?" I asked, with a depreciative smirk.

I went to Gholson. He told me I was relieved of my captive and bade me go care for my horse and return in half an hour. In going I passed close by the Sessions plantation house. Every door and window was thrown wide to the night air, and preparations were in progress for a dance; and as I returned, a slave boy ran across my path, toward the house, bearing a flaming pine torch and followed by two ambulances filled with daughters of the neighborhood in clouds of white gauze. I found the General in fatigue dress. His new finery hung on the tent-pole at his back. Old Dismukes, the bull-necked colonel of the Arkansans, lounged on a camp-cot. Both smoked cigars.

"I don't believe," said I, "I'd better put myself on the old gentleman when the mistress of the house is away."

When I said I would try she looked distressfully unassured and I added "I'll do whatever risks no life but mine."

"Of course no one has seen this despatch, eh?--Oh!"--a smile--"yes? who?"

Previous：Trevon Coley Jersey

Next：Willie Wright Jersey