"Dismiss the carriage, and we will walk to the station; there is time?"
"Yes."
For a little while they walked on in silence, the girl's hands clasped about her father's arm.
"I can not understand it yet!" said Elizabeth at length, speaking in a fearful whisper. "It is incredible. Oh, can't you save him—can't you?"
The general did not trust himself to answer her.
"We have failed. Do you think it would have been different if Judge Belknap had not been called away?"
General Herbert shook his head.
"And now we must go back to him! We were to have telegraphed him; we won't now, will we?"
"My poor, poor Elizabeth!" cried the general brokenly.
"How shall we ever tell him!"