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Nervous , fluttering answers only could she give to their sympathetic inquiries , and when presently Leonard reappeared , cool and imperturbable as ever , she was evidently relieved to see her guests departing . The adjutant explained his detention by saying he had gone to the colonel 's with Sanders , who had galloped ahead , leaving his guard to bring along the prisoners in an ambulance , Paine too drunk to be able to move . They would hardly arrive before eleven . `` The colonel desires to see you at the office at eight o'clock in the morning , '' said he in low tone to Cranston . `` Howard has been away all day , -- since guard-mounting , in fact , -- and no report was made of it . Devers has been notified that the colonel would investigate matters -- the whole business , in fact -- early to-morrow . '' But who can tell what a day may bring forth ?