home  on  Convent  avenue,"  said  Bert,  "or  the  last  of  the  Confederate  earth-
works on  the  old  Kentucky  battle-ground  of  Munfordville."

Marian  was  certain  she  should  always  remember  that  sick  chamber  in
the  Sixty-sixth  Street  house  in  New  York  where  General  Grant  wrote  his
memoirs,  passed  through  the  furnace-fire  of  misfortune,  and  fought  the  valiant
fight  with  death  ;  "  though,  to  be  sure,"  she  added,  "  I  was  awfully  interested
to  see  the  place  where  Pocahontas  fell  in  love  with  Rolfe."

"  Oh,  that 's  ancient  history,"  said  Jack  ;  "  it  was  not  nearly  so  interesting
to  me  as  old  Alfred  at  the  Hermitage,  though  I  think  I  shall  always  remember
the  boy  conductors  on  the  trolley-cars  at  Nashville,  and  the  White  Squad-
ron in  Hampton  Roads  —  both  of  them  were  pretty  fresh,  you  know."

Roger   wavered  between   the  star  chamber  and   its   morning  effects    in


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Mammoth  Cave,  and  Jefferson's  one-brick  wall  at  the  University  of  Virginia,
which  seemed  to  him  at  once  odd  and  incongruous.  Christine,  as  usual,
reserved  her  opinion.
