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"Company -- halt! " yelled Sergeant Knox; and he continued to give orders, as though he were in the act of bringing a column into position.
The enemy halted, as if in obedience to the command of the sergeant on the shore. His commands were plainly heard in the still air of the morning by the troopers in the water; for all of them had turned their gaze in the direction of the woods. But the observer was concealed among the branches of a large tree, and the enemy could see nothing.