Chapter-14 Occasionally an old man's treble voice begged for news, and instead of inciting the crowd to babbling it only intensified the hush as they heard the oft-repeated: Nothing on the wires yet from the North except that there's been fighting.

Occasionally an old man's treble voice begged for news, and instead of inciting the crowd to babbling it only intensified the hush as they heard the oft-repeated: Nothing on the wires yet from the North except that there's been fighting.