Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 442
au-dacity, requested a second conference. As a mat-ter of course, the request was refused, but whoshould bear the message of refusal into the Ger-man camp ? Well they knew the probable fateof the messenger. Before the words had lefthis lips, he would be cut down. The brow of the great commander was… … HOLD! CRIED CAESAR. SPARE THAT CAPTIVE. 312 FOR CAESAR tent; but as he lifted the curtain flap, a slim,boyish figure darted forward and knelt at hisfeet. From the moment the first word wasbrought, young Valerius had lingered around thecommanders tent, waiting to beg to be the mes-senger to carry…
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