iding
toward this house."

Harry detected a peculiar note in Colonel Talbot's voice, and his mind
leaped at once to a conclusion.

"That officer is my father!" he exclaimed.

"According to all the descriptions, it is he, and now you can sit up and
welcome him."

The meeting between father and son was not demonstrative, but both felt
deep emotion.

"Fortune has been kind to us, Harry, to bring us both safely out of the
long war," said Colonel Kenton.

"Kinder than we had a right to hope," said Harry.

The entire group rode together to Pendleton, and Dick was welcomed like
one risen from the dead by his mother, who told him a few weeks later
that he was to have a step-father, the brave colonel, Arthur Winchester.

"He's the very man I'd have picked for you, mother," said Dick gallantly.

The little town of Pendleton was unharmed by the war, and, since bitter
feeling had never been aroused in it, the reunion of North and South
began there at once. In an incredibly short period everything went on
as before.

The two colonels and their younger comrades remained a while as the
guests of Colonel Kenton and his son, and then they started for the
farther south where St. Clair and Langdon were to begin the careers in
which they achieved importance.

Harry and Dick in Pendleton entered upon their own life work, which they
were destined to do so well, but often, in their dreams and for many
years, they rode again with Stonewall in the Valley, charged with Pickett
at Gettysburg, stood with the Rock of Chickamauga, or advanced with Grant
to the thunder of the guns through the shades of the Wilderness.

Appendix: Transcription notes:

The following modifications were applied while transcribing the
printed book to etext:

Chapter 6
Page 103, para 11, change "Turner" to "Warner"

Chapter 7
Page 112, para 6, insert missing period

Chapter 11
Page 186, para 2, fix punctuation typos

Chapter 17
Page 290, para 2, fix typo "unforgetable"

The following words were printed with accented vowels, but I chose
not to post an 8-bit version of this text:

Chapter 6
Page 94, para 1, "coordinate" with accented "o"

Chapter 15
Page 270, para 1, accented "o" in "cooperate"

As is typical in this series, there are a number of instances where
the use of the comma in the printed book seems to me inappropriate.
However, I have adhered to the punctuation as printed (except for
obvious printing