rushed up into the belfry.

Then Buford saw the columns coming forward at the double quick, Reynolds
in his eagerness galloping at their head, and leaving them behind.
He looked in the other direction and he saw the men of Hill advancing
with equal speed. He saw on one road the Stars and Stripes and on
the other the Stars and Bars. He rushed back down the steps and met
Reynolds.

"The devil is to pay!" he cried to Reynolds.

"How do we stand?"

"We can hold on until the arrival of the First Corps."

Buford sprang on his horse, and the two generals, reckless of death,
galloped among the men, encouraging the faint-hearted, reforming the
lines, and crying to them to hold fast, that the whole Army of the
Potomac was coming.

Harry felt the hardening of resistance. The smoke was so dense that he
could not see for a while the fresh troops coming to the help of Buford,
but he knew nevertheless that they were there. Then he heard a great
shouting behind him, as Hill's men, coming upon the field, rushed into
action. But Jackson, the great Jackson whom he had followed through all
his victories, the man who saw and understood everything, was not there!

The genius of battle was for the moment on the other side. Reynolds,
so ably pushing the work that Buford had done, was seizing the best
positions for his men. He was acting with rapidity and precision,