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unfailing courtesy. He was too honest to express a hope which he did not
day the servants had straggled in from Bellegarde, and Virginia had had
her room, for which the two were silently thankful. Jackson announced
Virginia was not deceived. He would not see the yearning in her eyes as
was because he did not dare. She caught her breath when she saw that the
seen.
"Jinny," he said, "I reckon Lige is for the Yankees."
"I have known it all along," she said, but faintly.
"Did he tell you?" her father demanded. "No."
"My God," cried the Colonel, in agony, "to think that he kept it from me
because he loves us."
He said nothing to that. Virginia got up, and went softly around the
to come here--now?"
A long while she waited for his answer, while the big clock ticked out
it."
He rose abruptly and seized his bat. She did not ask him where he was
drawing-room. The lights were out, then, but the great piano that was
hymn which Judge Whipple loved, which for years has been the comfort of
window. It was "Lead, Kindly Light." Colonel Carvel heard it, and
the levee.html">levee bank, where the quaint stone houses of the old French residents
Then he wheeled about, walked swiftly down the levee, and on to the
bows was set, fantastically, a yellow street-car.
The Colonel stopped mechanically. Its unexpected appearance there had
while the roustabouts passed and repassed, noisily carrying great logs of
ever gets there, Colonel."
The Colonel jumped. Captain Lige was standing beside him.
"Lige, is that you? We waited supper for you."
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