smiled pleasantly to the doctor as he passed him, and then in

a few moments the word of command and the shouting of men and

the clatter of hoofs invaded the enchanted atmosphere like an

But the tumult scarcely jarred with the thoughts of his mind.

They had been altogether of war and rumors of war. Every hour

that subtile consciousness of coming events, which makes whole

communities at times prescient, was becoming stronger. "If

the powers of the air have anything to do with the destinies