"
"All right. He'll be glad to know that he has your approval."
"He might have the approval of worse men. I feel surging within me the
talents of a great general, but I'm too young to get 'em recognized."
"You'll have to wait until the sections are not fighting each other,
but are united against a common foe. But meanwhile I'll tell Colonel
Sherburne that if he gets into a tight pinch not to lose heart as you are
here."
Saluting Colonel Talbot and Lieutenant-Colonel St. Hilaire, Harry and
Dalton rode to the head of the column, where Sherburne led. They ate
their breakfast on horseback, and went swiftly down a valley in the
general direction of the Potomac. The dawn had broadened into full
morning, clear and bright, save for a small cloud that hung low in the
southwest, which Sherburne noticed with a frown.
"That's a little cloud and it looks innocent," he said to Harry, "but I
don't like it."
"Why not?"
"Because in the ten minutes that I've been watching it I've been able to
notice growth. I'm weather-wise and we may have more rain. More rain
means a higher Potomac. A higher Potomac means more difficulty in
crossing it. More difficulty in crossing it means more danger of our
destruction, and our destruction would mean the end of the Confederacy.
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