that the Rebellion had begun.

"The last of this happy life," he said; "the last,
alas, of our dear MOON." How little he knew and we!

But he paid off the men, and they packed their traps
and disappeared, and, before two months were over, were
in the lines before the enemy. George packed up, bade us
sadly good-by, and before a week had offered his service
to Governor Fenton in Albany. For us, it took rather
longer; but we were soon packed; Polly took the children
to her sister's, and I went on to the Department to offer
my service there. No sign of life left in No. 9, but the
two gigantic Fly-Wheels, moving faster and faster by day
and by night, and accumulating Power till it was needed.
If only they would hold together till the moment came!

So we all ground through the first slow year of the
war. George in his place, I in mine, Brannan in his,--we
lifted as we could. But how heavy the weight seemed! It
was in the second year, when the second large loan was
placed, that Haliburton wrote to me,--I got the letter,
I think, at Hilton Head,--that he had sold out every
penny of our railroad stocks, at the high prices which
railroad stocks then bore, and had invested the whole
fifty-nine thousand in the new Governments. "I could
not call a board meeting," said Haliburton, "for I am
here only on leave of absence, and the rest are all away.
But the case is clear enough. If the government goes up,
the MOON will never go up; and, for one, I do not look