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were driving northward and eastward on every road. The Doctor said little. Tears were in his eyes and sobs in his voice. I had never seen him thus. We reached the Sanitary Camp. The tents were already struck, and the wagons ready to move. "Stay here one moment, my boy," the Doctor said. He left me and approached an ambulance, into which I could not see; all its curtains were down. He raised the corner of a curtain, remained there while one might count a hundred--or a million--and came back to me. "Now get in, Jones," he said, preparing to mount his horse. I got in. By my side was a woman ... weeping. * * * * * Lee's guns are grumbling in all the southwest quadrant of the horizon. In the west Gregg's cavalry impedes the advance of A.P. Hill; in the south Fitzhugh Lee is pressing hard upon Buford. The retreat continues; I hold a woman's hand in mine. * * * * * Past the middle of an autumn night, where thick forests added to the darkness fitfully relieved by the fires of hasty bivouacs, there sat, apart from cannon and bayonets and sleeping battalions, a group of three. One was a man of years and of thought and of many virtues--at least a sage, at least a hero. One was a woman, young and sweet and pure and devoted. One was a common soldier. End of Project Gutenberg's Who Goes There?, by Blackwood Ketcham Benson *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHO GOES THERE? *** ***** This file should be named 12229.txt or 12229.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/2/2/12229/ Produced by Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images provided by the Million Book Project. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you
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