straight to the red light in the eastern sky. There
was an effect as though the force, impalpable, real, which was herself,
had gone too, flown from the window straight toward that horizon,
leaving here but a fair ivory shell. It was but momentary; the chains
held and she turned back to the shadowed room. "You have seen him?"

"Yes."

"How--"

"He has much of his mother in him, Judith. Eventually he will, I think,
take it that way. But now it is his father that shows. He is very
silent--grey and hard and silent."

"Where is he?"

"At present yet under guard. To-morrow it will all be over."

"He will be free, you mean?"

"Yes, he will be free."

She came and put her arm around her father's neck. "Father, you know
what I want to do then? To do just as soon as I shall have seen him and
made him realize that it is for my happiness. I want to marry him....
Ah, don't look at me so, saying nothing!" She withdrew herself a little,
standing with her clasped hands against his breast. "You expected that,
did you not? Why, what else.... Father, I am not afraid of you. You will
let me do it."

He regarded her with a grave, compassionate face. "No. You need not fear
me, Judith. It is hardly father and child with you and me. It is soul
and soul, and I trust your soul with its own concerns. Moreover, if it
is pain to consider what you would do, the pang would be greater to find
you not capable.... Yes, I would let you do it. But I do not think that
Richard will."

CHAPTER XXXVIII

CEDAR RUN

The Seven Days brought a sterner temper into this war. The two sides
grew to know each other better; each saw how determined was the other,
and either foe, to match the other, raised the bronze in himself to
iron. The great army, still under McClellan, at Harrison's Landing,
became the Army of the Potomac. The great army guarding Richmond under
Lee, became the Army of Northern Virginia. President Lincoln called
upon the Governors of the Northern States for three hundred thousand
men, and offered bounties. President Davis called upon the Governors of
the Southern States for conscripts, and obtained no great number, for
the mass of the men had volunteered. The world at large looked on, now
and henceforth, with an absorbed regard. The struggle promised to be
Homeric, memorable. The South was a fortress beleaguered; seven hundred
thousand square miles of territory lost and inland as the steppes of
Tartary, for all her ports wer