I'll consider your suggestion, General, but I can't see it—I can't see it now. I won't detain you longer.

[General Lee salutes and exits—Davis goes to the opposite door—opens it and calls.]

I am ready, gentlemen.

[Ould, Benjamin and Vaughan reënter.]

Benjamin

You have decided?

Davis

Yes.

[He sits and writes a pass.]

It is probably a bad business for us——