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"Neutrality! There is no such thing as neutrality in the present situation, my son! " protested Noah Lyon to the stout boy of sixteen who stood in front of him on the bridge over Bar Creek, in the State of Kentucky. "He that is not for the Union is against it. No man can serve two masters, Dexter."
"That is just what I was saying to Sandy," replied the boy, whom everybody but his father and mother called "Deck."