The King's Arrow - A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
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must see him at once."
"The Major is out at present," the soldier replied. "But let me have your message and I shall give it to him as soon as he comes back." "I have orders to give it to the Major himself and to no one else," the courier explained. "It is very important." "It certainly must be," and the soldier smiled. "But the Major is very busy to-day, so may not have time to see you. He is down at the trading post just now looking after the wants of those people who have come in the ships. They have upset things in general, and are making matters pretty lively around here, let me tell you that. The Major is almost at his wits' end." "Who are they?" Dane eagerly asked, "and where did they come from?" "Why, don't you know?" the soldier asked in surprise. "No, I have not the least idea. When I heard the Fort guns roar, I thought maybe old Crabtree had come back again." The soldier laughed and looked curiously at the young man. "Say, where do you hail from, anyway, that you haven't heard about the coming of the Loyalists? Why, we've been expecting them for some time." "I never heard of them," Dane confessed, "and have no idea who they are." |
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