“Which side will be successful, Amanda?”
“The vision did not say, sir."{1}
{Footnote 1: Colonel Surry assured me that he had scrupulously searched his memory to recall the exact words of this singular woman: and that he had given the precise substance of her statements; often, the exact words.—ED.}
Mohun, who had taken his seat on a rude settee, leaned his elbow on his knee, and for some moments gazed into the fire.
“I have asked you some questions, Amanda,” he said at length, “relating to public events. I now come to some private matters—those which brought me hither—in which your singular visions may probably assist me. Are you willing to help me?”
“Yes, indeed, sir, if I can,” was the reply.
XI. — DEEP UNDER DEEP.
Mohun fixed his mild, and yet penetrating glance upon the singular woman, who sustained it, however, with no change in her calm and smiling expression.