Nearly everybody
else has gone, too. That's why the town is so silent. There were not
many left anyway, except old people and children. But, Dick, I have
ridden as far as you have to-night, and I came to ask a question which
I thought Judge Kendrick or Dr. Russell might answer--news of those who
leave a town often comes back to it--but neither of them could tell me
what I wanted to hear. Dick, I have not heard a word of Harry since
spring. His army has fought since then two great battles and many
smaller ones! It was for this, to get some word of him, that I risked
everything in leaving our army to come to Pendleton!"
He turned upon Dick a face distorted with pain and anxiety, and the boy
quickly said:
"Uncle George, I have every reason to believe that Harry is alive and
well."
"What do you know? What have you heard about him?"
"I have not merely heard. I have seen him and talked with him. It was
after the Second Manassas, when we were both with burial parties, and
met on the field. I was at Antietam, and he, of course, was there, too,
as he is with Stonewall Jackson.
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