How can we
find him, Dr. Sandford?"
"I am ignorant, Daisy."
"But we must find him," I said, "for of course he will want to
see me, and I want to see him, very much."
The doctor was silent, and I remember an odd sense I had that
he was not pleased. I cannot tell how I got it; he neither did
nor said anything to make me think so; he did not even look
anywise different from usual; yet I felt it and was sure of
it, and unspeakably mystified at it. Could Preston have been
doing anything wrong? Yet the doctor would not know that, for
he was not even aware that Preston was in the Military Academy
till I told him.
"I do not know, Daisy," he said at last; "but we can find out.
I will ask Captain Southgate or somebody else."
"Thank you," I said. "Who are those, Dr. Sandford, those
others dressed in dark frock coats, with bright bars over
their shoulders? — like that one just now going out of the
gate?"
"Those are officers of the army."
"There are a good many of them. What are they here for? Are
there many soldiers here?"
"No —" said the doctor — "I believe not.
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