Carter Druse Carter's father the Federal officer Filled with amazement and terror by this apparition of a horseman in the sky-half believing himself the chosen scribe of some new Apocalypse. Overcome by the intensity of his emotions; his legs failed him and he fell. But no-there is a hope; he may have discovered nothing-perhaps he is but admiring the sublimity of the landscape. If permitted, he may turn and ride carelessly away in the direction whence he came. "Well, go, sir, and whatever may occur do what you conceive to be your duty. Virginia, to which you are a traitor, must get on without you. Should we both live to the end of the war, we will speak further of the matter."
