noon
Not far away was a big shed labeled Commissary Department . The army wagons were backed up to a loading platform , and Confederate soldiers were busy transferring boxes of supplies . By this time Tom had lost the first sense of strangeness at being in the enemy country , and so he went over to watch the soldiers work . Presently it was noon , and time for dinner . He returned to the hotel . There , sitting apart from the others at one end of the long table , were Brown and his companion ! They glanced at him , and then continued eating .