The rumor he'd heard from Norma was barely rumor any more: instead, it had become the next thing to an officially announced fact. Everyone knew it, even if next to no one spoke of it. The Confederation was going to send ships��had probably sent ships already. There was going to be a war."Possibly," he suggested to Si, "the conductor will take us further up into the town, where we kin find somebody that we know, who'll tell us where the rijimint is."TO: Fred Ramsbotham
FORE:"If you should happen to ketch cold in that it wouldn't git well for a week," added Shorty.