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Two hours afterwards, the great coach with the big, long-tailed bay horses, was on its way to Captain Ross's house.
Within the coach sat Mrs. Tremaine and Madame Isabey. Captain Ross's house, a small frame building painted a staring white, was only a couple of miles away. Already the news of his successful blockade-running had got abroad, and the space under the trees was filled with all sorts of vehicles carrying all sorts of people from Mrs. Tremaine in her coach and pair down to a ramshackle Jersey wagon drawn by a decrepit mule.